MANY OF THE OBSOLETE BANK NOTES AND CIVI WAR NOTES AND BONDS HAVE OR HAVE USED A PICTURE OR DRAWING OF THE AMERICAN STEAM ENGINE................................WHEN THEY RAN THEY WERE MAGNIFICENT IRON DRAGONS THAT SPIT FIRE AND FLATENED ANYTHING YOU PUT ON THE TRACK IN FRONT OF THEM----AS A BOY I NEVER LIVED NEAR THE TRACKS SO I DID NOT SEE THE UVBAN STREETCARS---THE INTERURBAN STREETCARS THAT WENT FROM CITY TO SUBURBS---OR STEAM TRAINS THAT MOVED THE US INTO THE 20TH CENTURY-----WHEN I WAS VERY LITTLE I ROAD ON A STEAM PULLED TRAIN FROM ALABAMA TO MICHIGAN AND LATER WHEN I WAS 7 I ROAD FROM DETROIT TO CHICAGO ON A STEAM PULLED TRAIN AND IN CHICAGO WE SWITCHED TO A DIESEL POWERED ENGINE WHICH PULLED US TO SEATTLE----BUT I NEVER GOT TO SEE THE IRON HORSES UP CLOSE........MY SISTER SENT ME SOME PICTURES OF TRAIN AND CARS TOGETHER--BUT MOST ARE PASS BYES FROM THE 50S--60S TO PRESENT SO YOU WILL HAVE TO IMAGINE HOW THE EARTH SHOOK AND THE SKIES TURNED WHITE AND GREY AND THE LOUD BELL AND WHISTLE TOLD EVERYONE---"PROGRESS IS COMING"------------HERE IS THE FIRST TWO.....
