TRIPLE NINES. Some people like those calendar days with odd or rare patterns in them. A news report this morning told of a couple who asked for nine gifts for a 9 pm wedding. Here's ferroequinology's contribution.

Museum of Science and Industry photograph.

The Museum's description of this locomotive, which has been rebuilt extensively from its 1893 form, probably erroneously credits it with a top speed of 112.5 mph. The first steam locomotive to achieve a creditable 100 had number 6402, a combination of digits not otherwise interesting for calendar junkies.