One of my favorite stories (from a Trains article in 1973) was of a run from Crestview OH to Ft Wayne IN where an out-of-service PRR T1 was pulled in to head up a mail train with quite a few coaches when one of the two K4s broke down. The engineer said to the fireman (who wrote the article) "Lets see what she'll do as its unlikely we'll ever get to drive on of these again". After several stops, they were facing a long straight section of track leading into Ft Wayne where they opened her up and twisted the speedometer off at 125 and she kept on increasing in speed beyond that point. He said "the telephone poles looked like a picket fence!" The superintendent called them to the carpet in his office and scolded them for their misdeed.
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