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1922 Shay locomotive, West Side Lumber Co. #8, on display in Cañon City, Colorado 1923 Shay locomotive, West Side Lumber Co. #9, in service on the Midwest Central Railroad Side view of the gap between Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 "Allegheny" Type Locomotive 1601 and its tender on display at the Henry Ford Museum Surviving example of a Lima-Hamilton LS-1200 diesel-electric locomotive at the ...
Nickel Plate Road 759 is a preserved S-2 class 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio as a member of the S-2 class for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road". Built as a fast freight locomotive, No. 759 served the Nickel Plate until being ...
Nickel Plate Road 757 was built on August 18, 1944, by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio and it arrived on the Nickel Plate Road that same year in 1944. [2]It was one of 30 class S-2 steam locomotives built for high-speed freight service on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, also known as the Nickel Plate Road (NKP).
The first order for 700 engines was placed in February 1945 with production split between the "big three" American locomotive builders: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, New York, and Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Ohio.
It was the last new steam locomotive to be delivered to the Nickel Plate Road, and alongside L&N 1991, another 2-8-4 for the Louisville and Nashville, is the last of 36 steam engines completed by Lima-Hamilton from 1947 to 1949, and the final 2-8-4 locomotive on standard gauge completed in the world.
Lima Locomotive Works; List of Lima-Hamilton diesel locomotives; 0–9. 2-6-6-6; A. Alberni Pacific 2; Atlanta and West Point 290; B. ... Nickel Plate Road 759;
The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 was a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio between 1941 and 1948, operating until the mid 1950s. The locomotives were among the most powerful steam locomotives ever built and hauled fast, heavy freight trains for the railroad.
Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's plate, 1922 SLM Builder's Plate of Locomotive at the Finnish Railway Museum Vulcan Foundry Works plate No. 3977 of 1926 on LMS Fowler Class 3F No. 47406 in 2012