For this series, you will need your own log book to record the stamp, name and bonus number for each cache as you go along.All the containers are small, except for the Blackwater Rail Trail Bonus, that is a regular to trade items and trackables.
Speedster 999 of New York Central, celebrated for her 112.5 mph effort of 1893, is now in the Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry since September 1962.
In 1893 the Empire State Express No. 999 was to become the world's most beautiful locomotive ever built. The construction was by hand with chisels and hammers and was the first of its kind to have brakes applied to the front trucks. Everything about the No. 999 was designed for speed with no pains spared for beauty.
The Express was recorded travelling at 112.5 mph (181 km/h) by unofficial timers during an exhibition run between Batavia and Buffalo on May 10, theoretically making No. 999 the fastest-moving manmade invention of its time and the first object on wheels to exceed 100 mph. However as the recordings were never made by an official and lacked accreditation, the claim of 100 mph (161 km/h) could be disputed and should not be taken as fact.