The only downside is it takes longer to get to your destination. Possibly.

There's a lot of plus sides;
- Possibly cheaper
- More leg space, and space in general
- You get to see a nice view during your travel, unless it's night travel then you're stuck looking at pitch black darkness
- You can carry more luggage, how much and how many I forget but I know it's better than at the airport

- I want to say that there is no TSA, but I keep hearing about how TSA is expanding outside of airports..

I know Amtrak was not happy with the TSA back in 2011 (http://blog.wandr.me/2011/03/amtrak-fire... and didn't want them there but it's been quite a few years since then. I took Amtrak in.. early 2013 I believe, no TSA. But you can't be too sure nowadays

The kind of locomotives that were needed abroad were heavy goods types - there was certainly no need for fast express passenger engines. Some O-4 2-8-0s were sent to the Middle East early in the War. Thereafter, the LMS 8F 2-8-0s were at first selected for general construction by a number of railway workshops for overseas use, followed by the Riddles 2-8-0s and 2-10-0s, and the US-built S160 2-8-0s and 0-6-0Ts. Many of the S160s worked on the British railways in the build up to D-Day. The 9F 2-10-0s were a British Railways standard design. They weren't even a twinkle in the designer's eye in 1939, the first appearing in 1954!

Source:

"Locomotives of the LNER" by the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society - 19 volumes published between 1963 and 1994

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I Imagine that you are from - and asking about - the USA. In which case, the 'pilot' is the name for the solid steel fairing at either end of the locomotive to knock obstructions clear of the track and stop them getting under the wheels. Until around the 1940s they were formed of steel bars in a vee-formation, and originally known as "cow-catchers" (although it didn't so much catch the cows as severely maim or kill them!). Such equipment is generally mandatory on railroads that are largely un-fenced - we had a few branch lines here in the UK where 'cowcatchers' had to be fitted to the locomotives.

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Retired UK Train Driver, lifetime of interest

I presume that you are asking about the 4-6-2 express passenger locomotives of the former London & North Eastern Railway in the UK? If so the answer is yes, and including the streamlined A-4s as well. Most of the time they were rostered for the work that they were designed for - heavy express passenger trains. However, during the Second World War all these types were used on goods trains on a regular basis. Similarly, towards the end of steam in the 1960s it became more common to see the survivors on freights. Naturally, they had a lower tractive effort than similarly-sized freight locomotives, due to their much larger driving wheels. However, it would appear that they could still handle respectable loads.

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lets at the station is one choice, online is anoter way
by telephone,, another way
at ticket vending machine,
on the train buy the ticket from the conductor [this option these sometime extra fee if the station was open