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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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stem are dummies. On the otherhand, such parts as the boiler, firebox, steam gauge, watergauge, throttle, and valve motion are all operable, and thedonor has asserted that there is even ring packing in the cyl-inders. Although capable of being fired and steamed up,using coal as the fuel, the locomotive has never beenoperated. 86 The number on the locomotive and tender apparentlyrepresent the year the donor commenced his work on themodel, as there was never a New York Central locomotiveof this type bearing that number. New York Central Locomotive 999, 7 893 The Museums nonoperable model (figure 69) of thefamous 999, long the holder of the worlds speed record, wasbuilt especially for the Museums collection (USNM313161), and was the gift in 1947 of the New York CentralSystem. Constructed by Edwin P. Alexander of Yardley, Pa.,it is about 15 inches long with tender and is accompanied bya train of four model cars of the period. Locomotive and carsare built to a scale of ^A inch to the foot.
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Figure 69.—Model of New York Central American-type loconnotive 999, 1893. One of the best known of all locomotives, the New YorkCentral and Hudson River Railroads 999, with engineerCharles H. Hogan at the throttle, reached a speed of 112V2miles an hour over a measured mile on May 10, 1893, whilepulling the Empire State Express westward between Bataviaand Buffalo, N. Y This was a new worlds record, and the999 was shortly withdrawn from active service and placedon exhibition at the Worlds Columbian Exposition atChicago. 87 At the conclusion of the exposition it was again placed inservice with the Empire State Express, but was later with-drawn because, although having great speed with a lighttrain, it lacked the pulling power required for the larger andheavier trains then coming into use. Today, the 999, alteredsomewhat, and with smaller driving wheels than when built,is preserved by the New York Central System as one of itshistoric relics. It is usually to be seen at the CoUinwood sho

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