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NYC 4-8-2 No. 3001 at the National New York Central Railroad Museum, Elkhart, Ind., on April 28, 2017. A plan to restore the locomotive to operation was one of the year’s top preservation stories. Dan ...

And – thankfully for the travelling public – modern locomotives and units don’t tend to clatter-clat as much these days. Here we round up the 10 fastest diesel locomotives ever.