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ANOTHER IMPOSSIBLE SPEED RECORD:<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Here is a description of a fast run on the Plant System in 1901 during a government sponsored competition between the performance of the Plant System and Seaboard Air Line railroads for the awarding of a U.S. Postal Service mail contract.   <o:p></o:p> U.S Postal Service authorities confirmed that the Plant System test train reached 108 mph with the test train being pulled by locomotive #111.  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19730305&id=2r5aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w1cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7218,1051223">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19730305&id=2r5aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w1cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7218,1051223</a>  <o:p></o:p> There was more than one competing run made for this test.  In the one I mentioned above, a maximum speed of 108 mph was achieved.  The highest speed of all was achieved in this particular run, which used locomotive #111, and achieved 120 mph:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gaware/html/great_locomotive_race_1901.html">http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gaware/html/great_locomotive_race_1901.html</a>  <o:p></o:p> I recall the story of this competition was covered in a magazine, which I recall as being Trains.  However a search only turns up coverage of Plant System locomotive #111 with article title reference to it being a “fast stepping ten-wheeler.”  This is in Trains November 1943, and that is not the article I recall seeing.  I have never seen this article and don’t have that issue of the magazine.  Here is the reference:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?articleId=64651&view=ViewIssue&issueId=5634">http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?articleId=64651&view=ViewIssue&issueId=5634</a>  <o:p></o:p> Locomotive #111 was renumbered to #210.  I don’t find a picture of #111 or #210, but here is #110, which may be a sister to #111.  If so, you can see what type of engine we are talking about for pulling a train at 120 mph:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/SF%26W_No._110.jpg">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/SF%26W_No._110.jpg</a>
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