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By 1907, the special train was an emblem of wealth and power in America, like none other ordinary millionaires, with a cottage in Newport and a townhouse on Park Avenue or an estate on the Hudson River shuttled between their palatial abodes in private rail cars attached to passenger trains. But the titans, the men who owned the railroads, traveled in their specials, private trains with their own locomotives able to steam anywhere on the continent at their owners, whim, the fastest and most luxurious special in the United States, belonged to the president of the Southern pacific Railroad. Osgood Hennessy Hennessey's train was painted a glossy vermilion red and hauled by a powerful Baldwin, 462 locomotive, black as the coal in its tender. His private cars named Nancy # one and Nancy # two for his long dead wife measured 80 ft long by 10 ft wide. They had been built of steel to his specifications by the pullman company and outfitted by european cabinet makers.