Re: 130 mph freight, per Kindig, no way!

Rick,
Congratulations on acquiring LaBelle. With your commitment to customer service, you should do well.
Actually, I was responding to this statement in roadmaster's earlier post: "Kindig claims 130 across Nebraska with a fast freight."
Since you are one of the few on this board who can speak from personal experience, how close to an exact time can you get, while bouncing around in the cab, without using a stop watch? I figure that looking ahead to the milepost, down to your Hamilton, back up to the mile post, etc. would make it pretty hard to get an exact beginning and ending mark. I figure that the odds on the second hand being at a significant mark would be slim, so you are left with perhaps a second error on each end of your time. The faster you go, the more significant the error.
The Santa Fe story was fascinating and well told. Had he reported 28 seconds, it would have worked out to 128.5 mph., the theoretical top speed for a 2900. I could well believe that at night, reading a watch by gauge or water glass light, it would be hard to get within 2 or 3 seconds of the real time. Also, there is the natural human tendency to round numbers in the desired direction!
I'd have no trouble believing that a 2900 could do 120 mph on a passenger, but much above that seems unlikely.