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In 2014, the 765 operated a few employee specials including The Commodore Vanderbilt from Elkhart, Indiana to Bryan, Ohio on May 3 and 4, The Nickel Plate Limited from Calumet City, IL to Argos, Indiana on May 10 and 11 and The Mercury Express from Detroit, Michigan to Toledo, Ohio on July 5 and 6 along with The Detroit Arrow from Detroit ...
The Nickel Plate ordered an additional 55 Berkshires during the war. [4] After the war, in 1947, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ended its control of the Nickel Plate when it sold off its remaining shares. That year, the Nickel Plate also ordered 11 ALCO PA diesel-electric locomotives, named the "Bluebirds". These were the first locomotives for ...
On August 20, 1924 they announced plans to merge the four companies into the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate) to form a new New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway. They applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission on February 21, 1925, but were denied March 2, 1926 due to unsound financing. The plan was opposed by many ...
The Nickel Plate was one of the last Class I railroads to regularly use steam locomotives, only the Illinois Central, Norfolk & Western, Colorado & Southern, Fort Worth & Denver, and Grand Trunk Western were to continue longer, until spring 1960. The Nickel Plate Road had a fleet of 112 of the 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam locomotives.
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 ...
For the first part of its service life, No. 1225 was used to shuttle steel and wartime freight between Detroit, Saginaw, Flint and northern Indiana steel mills. [1] In 1951, the C&O began to dieselize the Pere Marquette division and retired most of the N class locomotives, including No. 1225, which was stored out of service in Wyoming, Michigan ...
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The Hoosier Heritage Port Authority is a quasi-governmental organization in the U.S. state of Indiana.It is the owner of a Heritage railway (reporting mark HHPA), operated by the Indiana Transportation Museum from 1995 to 2015 & currently operated by the Nickel Plate Express since 2018, over former Norfolk Southern trackage from Tipton, Indiana, to Indianapolis, a distance of 37 miles (59.5 km).