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Description: The fastest time on record / Photograph shows a train running under full steam. / Photo'd by A.P. Yates, Syracuse, N.Y., May 10, 1893, when Engine 999 drawing the Empire State Express train, made the record of 112 1/2 miles an hour.
Title: The Empire State Express 1893
Credit: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b17702
Author: A.P. Yates
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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