When you’re sent to cover steam engine trains, you should prepare for – well, steam.

Unfortunately for the team at Sky News, it was perhaps a bit more steam than they bargained for since it ended up covering the whole subject of their story.

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The reporter was sent to cover the return of the "Flying Scotsman," a train that was originally retired in 1963 but was brought out for a test run.

As the journalist begins an interview about the historic return, the train engine starts up and bellows a huge gust of steam, interrupting the interviewee mid-sentence.

The interviewee gives a smug eye roll and turns toward the train and as the camera pans to the tracks, where viewers get but a glimpse of the fading image of a black steam engine train.

Ironically, the steam caused by the train has completely blocked the view of the steam engine train.

An interrupted interview along with a great shot of nothing makes for one imaginably frustrated reporter.

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