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Commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road", ... and 41 million passenger-miles. In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road and several ... and car rebuilding were ...
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 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 ...
Nickel Plate Road caboose #141: Built in 1901 for the Lake Erie & Western as a 4 wheel bobber caboose, rebuilt by NKP into 2 truck 8 wheel caboose. Purchased by John Keller in the 1960s, donated by John Keller to FWRHS in 1975. Currently in service. Nickel Plate Road caboose #451: Built by International Car Company in 1962 for the Nickel Plate ...
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.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WLE) was a Class I railroad mostly within the U.S. state of Ohio.It was leased to the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road) in 1949, and merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1988.
In August 1991, 1225, along with Nickel Plate Road 765, pulled a 31-car passenger train during the National Railway Historical Society's annual convention in Huntington, West Virginia. [1] [a] The Trust started using the name "Steam Railroading Institute" because it was thought that this name better represented the goals of the organization.
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 ...