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Show T - - , 's Two Million Miles by Rail. A locomotive of the London & North- western railroad, named Charles Dickens, Dick-ens, has the distinction of hating traveled nearly two million one nun- j dred thousand miles In hauling express ? ' trains, a feat, it i3 thought, unique ir. ! the annals of railroading. The Charles j Dickens, built at Crewe, was put into . : service February 6. 1882. and until a year or two ago was still one of th;' . . fastest locomotives on the road and in I excellent condition. |