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The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (reporting mark NKP), abbreviated NYC&St.L, was a railroad that operated in the mid-central United States.Commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road", the railroad served parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.
The Nickel Plate Limited, later known as the City of Cleveland and City of Chicago, was a passenger night train operated by the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate) between Chicago and Buffalo, New York via Cleveland, Ohio, with through service to Hoboken, New Jersey (for New York City) via Binghamton and Scranton and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad for the ...
The 2-8-4 design was quickly adopted by the New York Central, Erie Railroad, Illinois Central, Pere Marquette, Boston & Maine, Chesapeake & Ohio and the Nickel Plate Road. [5] The Nickel Plate Road was able to eventually employ 80 Berkshires on high-speed freight and passenger trains with the first order (designated S Class) 15 were supplied by ...
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.
While located in Noblesville, the Indiana Transportation Museum operated excursion trains on 38 miles (61 km) of a former Nickel Plate Road line originally built for the Indianapolis and Peru Railroad and, at the time of ITM's eviction, owned by the Hoosier Heritage Port Authority (HHPA), which is made up of the Indiana cities of Indianapolis, Fishers, and Noblesville.
Nickel Plate: Cleveland–St. Louis [1958] 1956–1959 Blue Bird [9] Chicago Great Western: Minneapolis–Rochester, Minnesota [1930] 1929–1931 Blue Bird: Wabash: Chicago–St. Louis [1943] 1938–1968 Blue Comet: Central Railroad of New Jersey: Jersey City, New Jersey–Atlantic City, New Jersey [1934] 1929–1941 Blue Dart: Nickel Plate: St ...
Nickel Plate, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad: New York, New York - Chicago, Illinois [1955] 1954-1965 City of Cleveland: Nickel Plate, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad: New York, New York - Chicago, Illinois [1955] 1954-1965 City of Decatur: Illinois Terminal Railroad: St. Louis, Missouri - Decatur, Illinois [1949] 1949-1950 ...
Other noteworthy pieces are the popular Union Pacific Big Boy #4012, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) #2929 (a rare Jubilee 4-4-4), Nickel Plate Road (NKP) S-2 #759, and Reading Company (RDG) T-1 #2124. [10] Engines NKP #759, CN #47, New Haven Trap Rock Co. #43, and Rahway Valley #15 have operated at Steamtown, but not since the move to ...