In the UK, the The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has done something amazing, they’ve built a brand new Pacific class steam locomotive. It’s taken them 18 years and they still need to run tests and trials so that it can run on the mainlines, but it’s real. This is an 11 on the Awesome-meter.

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