The number on the locomotive and tender apparently 

 represent the year the donor commenced his work on the 

 model, as there was never a New York Central locomotive 

 of this type bearing that number. 



New York Central Locomotive 999, 7 893 



The Museum's nonoperable model (figure 69) of the 

 famous 999, long the holder of the world's speed record, was 

 built especially for the Museum's collection (USNM 

 313161), and was the gift in 1947 of the New York Central 

 System. Constructed by Edwin P. Alexander of Yardley, Pa., 

 it is about 15 inches long with tender and is accompanied by 

 a train of four model cars of the period. Locomotive and cars 

 are built to a scale of ^A inch to the foot. 



Figure 69. — Model of New York Central American-type loconnotive 999, 1893. 



One of the best known of all locomotives, the New York 

 Central and Hudson River Railroad's 999, with engineer 

 Charles H. Hogan at the throttle, reached a speed of 1 12V2 

 miles an hour over a measured mile on May 10, 1893, while 

 pulling the Empire State Express westward between Batavia 

 and Buffalo, N. Y This was a new world's record, and the 

 999 was shortly withdrawn from active service and placed 

 on exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition at 

 Chicago. 



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