On July 4th, 2002, a brilliantly bright day, I visited the Ohio Central Rail Road in Sugarcreek, Ohio, one of the few places where heavy steam locomotives operate every day on a scheduled basis pulling passenger trains.  If you put up your hand to cover the modern cars in your field of vision, the scene looks like the 1940s.

In the picture above, a former Canadian steam locomotive is backing across the main road in Sugarcreek to couple up to the passenger coaches as we watch the conductor, in the picture below, carefully signaling the locomotive's closing approach.

With the conductor finished connecting the locomotive and coach couplers and air hoses, he's checking his watch while loading passengers for an on-time departure below.