[C19fan]

I always wanted to ride a vintage steam train in the UK....of course First Class. I will be heart broken if shut down comes to pass. Who would have thought there would be no coal in the UK.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Santa will no longer have a supply of coal to deliver a lump to the British bad actors.

[angmo]

When they freeze to death in the dark, the survivors will open the coal mines again.

[real saxophonist]

I know this story is about the UK, but Union Pacific 844 was converted from coal to fuel oil and is still going. It comes through town a couple of times a year. Here's a picture I took a while back:

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Looks like it’s time to start bringing coals to Newcastle.

[jmcenanly]

There’s coal, but they just aren’t mining it.

[Viking2002]

I've had the good fortune to ride the Baldwin 2-8-0 #734 ('Mountain Thunder') Polar Express excursion at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad back home. It's currently sitting on a Ridgeley, VW side line, awaiting boiler inspection, because the WMSR purchased a Mallet 2-6-6-2 engine from the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, and it took up most of the interior of the shop to restore it. As soon as #1309 ('Maryland Thunder') gets certified and is back on the rails, #734 will be pushed in for the same mandatory boiler inspection and service. I think you may appreciate a certain recently departed game show host who scratched off a boyhood fantasy on his bucket list and ran #734 up to Frostburg and back.

[moovova]

They can’t heat the boilers with Unicorn Fart flames?

[damper99]

Convert them to nuclear.