On this day in 1905 near Elida, Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad E-2 Class 4-4-2 Atlantic 7002 reportedly took the Pennsylvania Special to a speed of 127.1 mph near Elida but this speed was based solely on two passing times recorded by separate observers at two different points 3 miles apart, and it is difficult to obtain even a general indication of a train's speed from signal box registers. 7002 is not officially the fastest steam locomotive due to the fact that her speed wasn't definitively recorded. 7002 also did not have a dynamometer car in her consist so the exact speed is unknown. The original 7002 locomotive was scrapped by the railroad in the Thirties and a close representative, the last E7 class locomotive, was given the 7002 number board and resides at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
