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The FEF class was meant to pull rakes of heavyweight Pullmans at 110 to 120 mph across the American heartland after WW2 but instead they were just replaced by diesels. I know 844 survived but we never got to see it or any of its sisters do 110 mph nonstop Kansas City to Denver for "The Pony Express" which was planned and for which roadbed improvements had been made. Tentative schedules put that journey at 6 hours 45 minutes, vs. the current 9 hours by car.