This is not zoomed. I was standing right there. I could feel the enormous power and smell the train as it passed.

Yes they are! Note the whole photo sequence for this one. I nearly got scalded! Had I been on the othr side of th train a few moments earlier, I would have been a dead lobster. :) Thanks for the comment,

Thank you! One of my favorite shots, to be sure. The town itself is old school Mississippi, quaint, interesting. Easy to find art and history around every corner...

Thanks for the detailed comments. Always helpful, especially from someone who knows how to look/see. Have a thing in my heart for the old trains but I don't have a model railroad--not that kind of fan. Plan on taking some new train pics sometime soon. Pulling out the old ones has me fired up again.