I have always like steam.  I was born to late to see mainline steam in action, park steam is what I first remember.  A small park in Panama City, Florida operated 3 narrow gauge Porters, a 2-6-0 ex-Argent Lumber, and 2 0-4-0T's converted to tender locomotives.  I loved this little pike.  As a teenager, I spent two different afternoons riding with the engineer in the cab of the 2-6-0, about 3 hours each time.  Those experiences sealed my love for small narrow gauge steam.  Sometime later I discovered Tweetsie Railroad and that has been my favorite ever since.  I remember when Bachmann introduced the radio controlled G scale set with the Tweetsie locomotive. I still have that locomotive plus several other versions of the ET&WNC G scale loco.  Now, I'm into On30 with the ET&WNC #12 and my first ever small layout based on part of the Tweetsie.  So for me, it is steam all the way.