Even late in the evening, crowds turned out to see excursion locomotive 4501, shown here at Salisbury, North Carolina. Southern's successor, Norfolk Southern, continued the program until 1994 and inaugurated its 21st Century Steam program in 2011. Many other people than those in Salisbuy saw the locomotive on this inaugural trip. They included Trains Editor Jim Wrinn (on his father’s shoulders at Asheville) and Don Phillips, a Trains columnist, then a young adult.