Nickel Plate Road 757 is a 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Nickel Plate Road in 1944.[2]
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History
editNickel 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 locomotive made its last run in service on June 15, 1958.[1][3] In 1960, it was retired from the NKP and was donated to the city of Bellevue, Ohio, who were unable to raise funds to build a display site for No. 757 and instead sent the locomotive to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania during 1966.[1][4]
It was currently one of six NKP Berkshires preserved. In 2019, No. 757 was brought back to Bellevue, where it was cosmetically restored at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum. In September 2021, No. 757 was reunited with its operational sister locomotive No. 765 for the Berkshires in Bellevue event.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Trusty, Sheri. "Meet Your Neighbor: Engine 757's return completes Fuehrings' 38-year dream". The News-Messenger. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
- ^ a b Chappell (1991), p. 143
- ^ "Nickel Plate 765 back in Bellevue". sanduskyregister.com. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
- ^ Cupper (2002), p. 26
- ^ "Nickel Plate Berkshires to be Reunited in Ohio". Railfan & Railroad. Jul 20, 2021. Retrieved Jul 20, 2021.
Further reading
edit- Cupper, Dan (2002). Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide. Stackpole Books. ISBN 9780811729567.
- Chappell, Gordon S. (1991). Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
- Drury, George H. (2015). Guide to North American Steam Locomotives (2nd ed.). Kalmbach Media. ISBN 978-1-62700-259-2.
- Holland, Kevin J. (1998). Berkshires of the Nickel Plate Road (1st ed.). TLC Publishing. ISBN 1-883089-39-5.
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