but these days, they seem to run largely on ingenuity – replacement parts are either ancient stock left over from the pre-U.S. trade embargo days or new supplies from China, jerry-rigged to fit the archaic engine, Santiago says. The cab is hot and smelly, and daubed with oil stains everywhere ... in other words, awesome.

This sounds a little like "tornado tourism" -very interesting, but not very bright. I'm not getting anywhere a steam locomotive whose maintenance can be described as above.

Besides, despite the lousy exchange rates due to our Fed's low interest rates, the greenback is still a weapon to the Castro Brothers. Having been treated to the accounts of the revolution by an expatriate grade school teacher-not one of my red cents goes to support the evil regime, even if its laundered through Canada.

And sorry, there's no way to separate the political consideration. Hopefully, there'll be a new revolution some day. Interesting that both considerations escaped Mr. John Moore, but then again, his education (and editing) both failed to catch the misnomer "jerry-rigged"