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Overmod sayeth: "(I confess to being somewhat astounded that PRR would run up to 115mph in a basically uncontrolled environment on live track, with a 70" drivered locomotive!!!)" I mentioned earlier that I had talked at length to the Mechanical Department man (Ed Payne) who was with the 610 on the PRR. He gave me a couple of quotes from the first PRR engineer to handle the 610 on the Broadway between Fort Wayne and Chicago (the engine had been put on the train at Crestline). Payne followed the engineer as he inspected the engine at Fort Wayne; the man looked at the drivers and looked at Payne and said "this engine will never make the time on THIS railroad!" The engineer got down off the engine to look it over after they arrived at Englewood on time; walked to the front of the engine and turned around and said to Payne "this is the runninest S-- of a B---- I was ever on in my life". This engineer had experience on T1s, at that time. He couldn't have been talking about top speed, but acceleration and ability to cruise at a speed sufficient to keep the Broadway on time. FWIW. Old Timer
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