>>946653Doubtful. Lots of apocryphal stories abound from that era of steam loco's that went faster than they actually did. Most are tall tales; some have a few grains of truth embellished by the passage of time. I think the fastest at the time (in the US) must've been between the Milwaukee or CNW Hudsons, the PRR T1, or perhaps another of the large, superpowered Northerns that roamed the rails then.
