Front:
WORLD'S FASTEST LOCOMOTIVE
Pennsylvania Railroad's No. 7002-Record 127.1 Miles an Hour
Chicago Railroad Fair 1949
7002
PENNSYLVANIA
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WORLD'S FASTEST RAILROAD RUN
The world's fastest run by a railroad train was
made by the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania
Railroad on Monday, June 12, 1905, when it ran 127.1
miles an hour between AY tower and Elida, Ohio.
The Broadway Limited was pulled by coal-burning
steam Locomotive 7002, and although many swift runs
have been made in recent years by steam, electric and
diesel locomotives, none has equalled the 127.1 mile-
an-hour record run established in 1905. At the Chicago
Railroad Fair of 1949, Locomotive 7002 stands on a
section of P.R.R. standard roadbed with rails weighing
155-pounds to the yard -- heaviest in the world.
