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"SHE WENT LIKE THE WIND" Buffalo's Charlie Hogan and Engine No. 999

By Richard G. Waite - April 30, 2018

When the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad wanted to break the 100 mph speed barrier, it looked to Western New York's Charlie Hogan...and a strip of track just west of Batavia.

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