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Nickel Plate Road 765 is a preserved S-2 class 2-8-4 ... Chesapeake and Ohio's New River Gorge route. Taken out of service in 1993, No. 765 was added to the ...
The Nickel Plate Road was constructed in 1881 along the South Shore of the Great Lakes to connect Buffalo and Chicago, in competition with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. At the end of 1960, NKP operated 2,170 miles (3,490 km) of road on 4,009 miles (6,452 km) of track, not including the 25 miles (40 km) of Lorain & West Virginia.
The NKP 765 is a steam locomotive built for the Nickel Plate Road in 1944 by the Lima Locomotive Works. Classified as an "S-2" Berkshire-type steam locomotive, the locomotive is based on a 2-8-4 wheel arrangement. It operated freight and passenger trains until retirement in 1963.
Under the Van Sweringen umbrella were the Nickel Plate Road, Erie Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and Pere Marquette Railway. The AMC's design, based on the C&O's T-1 2-10-4s – themselves based on the Erie's 2-8-4s – generated 64,100 pounds-force (285 kN) of tractive effort with 69-inch (1,750 mm) drivers and became the basis for many ...
In August 2015, No. 425 was pulling regular passenger trains when it visited Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, meeting Nickel Plate Road 765 on a Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam excursion. [13] At the same time, No. 425 was repainted in a dark midnight blue paint scheme with black wheels and whitewalls.
Landowners along the Nickel Plate Trail will divvy up $7.6M in federal funds for having part of their property used to build the greenway.
On July 18 and 19, Nickel Plate Road 765 made her first 2015 excursion run from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Lafayette, Indiana, on the route of the famous Wabash Cannonball. [ 18 ] On July 25 and 26, the locomotive made runs from Youngstown, Ohio , to Ashtabula, Ohio , and returned to Buffalo, New York , for the first time in almost 40 years when ...
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