I've never driven one let alone been a passenger in one. At a steam show when they go by they are incredibly impressive, no wonder even non steamers love seeing them.
Go to a show early in the morning and start talking, you never know, you might be invited up on one! The show grounds where I go to steam school has a shed of probably 50 steamers that don’t even make it out in the daylight for the show as they have nobody to run them. On top of that are hundreds of tractors covered in dust that also never run. Our area shows are really hurting for volunteers as so many are dying off...