Sundance

Sundance was a ten-wheeler built by Lockheed Locomotive Works in 1861. The locomotive suffered the same issue as her fellow Lockheed-built engines such as the Tallahassee and Laramie railroad's "Contraption": being able to go stupidly fast. On its first run, the engine reached a whopping speed of 187.78234 Miles Per Hour on one of the railroad's straights. Its rods proceeded to fall off. However, the rods were still perfectly fine and the engine was returned to service within a week. However, in 1881, the locomotive ran off the Memphis bridge going 227 miles per hour, hitting the terrain on the other side so hard it tunneled around a mile into it. All track, plumbing, and wiring above it got destroyed, and nobody ever bothered to remove Sundance. Legend has it she still remains underground somewhere.
== lore's over, here's a poem ==
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Category:Locomotives
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