THE GLORY OF FERROEQUINOLOGY. This pacing sequence, from west of Wisconsin Dells, features Milwaukee 4-8-4 261 returning from New Lisbon.

The train is going only a little faster than the Estonian steam train we noted last week. The location, however, is historically significant: this is the Sand Country east of New Lisbon through Mauston and Lyndon Station over which the world's fastest scheduled steam trains rolled. Imagine a streamlined, 300 psi 4-6-4 with eleven on at double 261's speed, or possibly, just possibly, touching 125 or 126 before the engineer has to check for the curves and the bridge at the Dells, just another day at work.