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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.
Nickel Plate Road 587 is a preserved H-6o class 2-8-2 "USRA Light Mikado" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad as its No. 5541. In 1923, the LE&W was merged into the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad , commonly referred to as the " Nickel Plate Road ", and allocated 587 as its ...
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 American Locomotive Works (ALCO) in 1934 based on Lima's design. Eight years later, Lima began producing three more sub-classes, which differed from the S class in little ...
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.
Painted in fictional Nickel Plate Road livery 100 Southern Pacific: S2 101 Norfolk & Western: S2 102 Norfolk & Western S2 400 Monongahela Connecting Railroad: T6: 1077 Long Island Rail Road: RS3: 1663 South Buffalo Railway: S2 1782 S2 1800 Erie Mining Co. RS18 Named "Chappy" 4099 Delaware & Hudson: RS3 From Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad: 7230 ...
Allen County's first railroad line was built by the Indiana Railroad in 1854 and later subsumed into the Pennsylvania Railroad system. [4]: 335 By the early twentieth century, Lima was a transportation center located at the confluence of five major American railroads: Pennsylvania Railroad; Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (a.k.a. B&O); New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (a.k.a. Nickel Plate Road ...
Oldest surviving Nickel Plate Road locomotive. 47: 4-6-4T Montreal Locomotive Works: 1914 Display, awaiting possible cosmetic restoration The first steam locomotive to pull excursion runs at Steamtown, prior to the move from Vermont. [16] 132 Wabash Railroad: SW-8: 1953 Display Painted as Lackawanna No. 500. 210 2-6-0: American Locomotive ...
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).