by tocfan
I picked up a general railroad book recently on a sale table at a bookstore recently and was reading the section on pre war speed records and touted the British Speed record by the Flying Scotsman or Mallard or whatever of 126 MPH. Karl Zimmerman was one of the contributors and with his familiarity with the NYC, I was a little surprised he did not contest that based on the documentation that has been published in the NYCSHS Central Headlight in the article by Carl Kantola on the high speed wheel slip tests, where they had the hudson going 140 MPH and the driver speed was 164 MPH. This was well documented with photos.
Why do you think this British Record was never publicly contested by the NYC or NYCSHS people.
Mike Fleming
Bartlett, Tn
Why do you think this British Record was never publicly contested by the NYC or NYCSHS people.
Mike Fleming
Bartlett, Tn