Ruth McEvoy Collection 19 - Genesee County

Past & Present column: on 999 - calling to mind engine 888 - a Schnectady
engine - also a great engine. 1-2, 7-1923
Past & Present column: On the death of Peter Wagner, fireman on the historic run. 8-4-1928
Story of 999 and Charles Hogan to be broadcast on the radio. 5-21-1931
John B. Elmore, firman on the famous run, dead in Buffalo. 12-9-1931
Past & Present column: on the engine and Hogan's historic ride. 9-22-1934
Dinner to honor Hogan - now 85. 1-16-1935
Report on the dinner. 1-17-1985 (sic)
Hogan drives 999 once more at Cleveland in Transportation Pageant.
Picture of Engine 999 and Dewitt Clinton at the Batavia Station on the way to the
6-29-1936
World's Fair in May 1893 - info on Hogan. 5-1-1937
Picture of Engine 999 - picture of Hogan, engineer. 11-13-1939
Hogan's trip remembered. 5-10-1943
Past & Present column: Old 999 now on exhibit at the Chicago Railroad Fair.
Past & Present column: on the engine that pulled 124 loaded cars up the
7-31-1948
Byron grade on March 9,1915. 8-18-1951
Old 999 towed from Rochester to Watertown for exhibition.
Past & Present column: on old 999 - to go on permanent exhibition in Toledo.
9-8-1951
Its record stood for 12 years. 12-22-1951
Old 999 on the siding at Ellicott and Center for Sequi Week - picture. 5-17-1952
999 getting repairs in Rochester. 7-9-1953
Picture of Engine 999. 6-18-1957
999 to go through town at the end of a freight. 9-19-1957
Engine 999 retiring - picture.
Winegar learns that Hogan's speed record held for 12 years, broken by a
4-3-1962
Pennsylvania engineer. 6-12-1963
Picture of Engine 999.
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999 (cont) Winegar on the day the old 999 went through town. 3-15-1966
Winegar quotes train speed records. 12-5-1969
Charles Hogan, engineer. Joe Benzino, fireman - according to Wally Dawson.
Winegar says Old 999 went through town on May 10, 1893 at a speed of 112½mph
May 1985
west of Corfu - the old engine is now in a museum in Chicago.
Picture: Charles Stalnecker framed a painting by L. F. Tantillo of the old engine -
7-9-1985
a framed copy given to the Land Office.
Winegar meets the researcher of the 999 run - and goes over the facts again -
6-29-1990
100 years ago.
Winegar says the Post Office will remember the famous run Monday, May 10th
2-19-1993
with a hand cancellation stamp in the Post Office lobby.
Nellie Compton sends Winegar a dipping that shows that John De Wolf was the
regular engineer who drove 999 at top speed - Hogan, a protégé, happened to
5-3-1993
drive it on its recorded run. 5-5-1993
Batavia celebrates old 999 and the former glory of railroading - picture. 5-8-1993
Winegar recalls the record run by Hogan. 8-4-1997
1921 Housebuilding boom on: Bert H. Hanley on North and Summit Street; Dr. Guy W.
Patterson, 38 Kingsbury and 31 Kibbe Avenue; Mrs. Catherine Redmond,
146 Summit; Nicholas Conrad, 21 Vernon; Frank C. Sawyer, 3 Kingsbury Ave.;
Eugnia and Frances Fox, 29 Redfield Parkway. 10-19-1921
Nioga Library System County Library service discussed. 1-13-1954
County librarians to discuss organizing - meet at Niagara Falls. 4-22-1959
Tri-County library service discussed. 5-14-1959
Nioga System adopts a constitution. 10-15-1959
Richmond Library signs a Nioga contract. 3-23-1960
Winegar on the Nioga System.
Director Richard M. Killian resigns - going to Sacramento Public Library - here
5-11-1963