the 1890s were a wild time
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We can have the best of both worlds if we use electric-steam engines!
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There are some people on working bringing it back with biomass https://csrail.org/
I'm not really clear on what the proposed advantages would be over modern traction though.
I suppose in theory steam is just water vapour so maybe you could eliminate the air pollution aspect of it but there would still be impacts of increased humidity.
Yeah I was thinking hypothetically of just the steam bit independent of the mechanism to heat the water.
I remember someone arguing that the future was nuclear powered steam engines to me once...
Hearing steam whistles all the time in the city, probably felt like the future
