The triumph of the Rocket ensured the supremacy of steam for a century. The
peak of the steam age came in the summer of 1938, when the Mallard set a
still-unbroken world speed record of 126 miles per hour. The Science Museum site
has a picture of the locomotive at
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/piclib/homepage/subject/transport/images/st01.html.
For a more up-to-date view of trains, a host of links is provided by the European Railway Server at
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/home.html.
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