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The restoration of our historic Nickel Plate Road diesel locomotive has entered a dramatic new phase! No. 358 has been transformed back to its as-built appearance by Progress Rail in Muncie, Indiana. We couldn't be more grateful to our friends at Progress and the hundreds of donors and supporters that have helped us reach this milestone. There's still some work to do to get the 358 ready for the road, but we can't wait to introduce you to this beautiful Electro-Motive time machine very soon.
Donated by Norfolk Southern to the Fort Wayne Railroad in 2010, this SD9-type locomotive has undergone an extensive restoration. It will soon become an operating rail attraction, complementing the nonprofit's preservation efforts and expanding tourism events in the Northeast Indiana region where it will join Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive no. 765. Donations to help complete the restoration can be made at fortwaynerailroad.org/donate. #locomotive #preservation #railroad
Nickel Plate Road No. 358 has been transformed back to its as-built appearance by Progress Rail in Muncie, Indiana. We couldn't be more grateful to our friends at Progress and the hundreds of donors and supporters that have helped us reach this milestone. There's still some work to do to get the 358 ready for the road, but we can't wait to introduce you to this beautiful Electro-Motive time machine very soon. Learn more at the link: fortwaynerailr...

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@fortwaynerailroad Год назад

Donated by Norfolk Southern to the Fort Wayne Railroad in 2010, this SD9-type locomotive has undergone an extensive restoration. 358 will soon become an operating rail attraction where it will join Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive no. 765. Donations to help complete the restoration can be made at fortwaynerailroad.org/donate. For the full press release, click here: fortwaynerailroad.org/2023/07/progress-rail-helps-transform-historic-locomotive/

@sammusillami7995 Год назад

Congratulations Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, for making a 358 Project a tremendous success!!!

@kristoffermangila Год назад

Back in black and Venetian yellow, #NKP358 looks sharp! All it needs is some more mechanical and electrical work and she's good to go! Kudos to #ProgressRail for the paintjob, you gave her the look she thoroughly deserves! PS: when her restoration is all done, will 358 pair up with #NS8100 for a photo op?

@sammusillami7995 Год назад

@@kristoffermangila indeed

@kristoffermangila Год назад

@@sammusillami7995 Nice!

@RichMelvin Год назад

FANTASTIC!! Looking forward to seeing this locomotive run.

@wythetrumpet6419 3 месяца назад

Wow! Beautiful workmanship! Outstanding! 👍

@nickelplateexpressrailfan2 Год назад

Its nice to see another nickel plate road locomotive back in the nickel plate paint scheme

@BnuuyBoi2005 Год назад

I love SD9s but NKP 358 is such a beauty to look at. I hope to see it in excursion service with NKP 765

@josephburnsjr.3042 Год назад

Holy cow, she is quite a beauty indeed!

@tfs4499 10 месяцев назад

Looks great, great job folks!

@P61guy61 Год назад

Looks great! Thank you volunteers!

@DaveBeard24 Год назад

Work of art coming back to life

@restoredoutboards Год назад

Beautiful work by all involved. I saw this engine years ago in Sandusky. The engineers said they preferred it to many modern diesels in yard service. Well done!

@TheBerkshireMainline Год назад

I’m so happy for everyone who worked on this masterpiece of a restoration, and I’m excited for everyone that gets to experience this locomotive from now on! Bravo!!!

@presleymares8571 Год назад

I have this SD9 from MTH #358. Will be a joy to see it in person!

@brenrob7403 Год назад

Will be a great compliment to 765 👍🏼

@trainglen22 Год назад

Very nice work. Looks like it just came out of the manufacturer.

@KCSHeavenerSubRailfan Год назад

She looks beautiful guys! Job well done to you and Progress Rail!

@dennisb-trains23 Год назад

Magnificent! Looks amazing. 👍

@davidsoares5464 Год назад

I'm working at Progress Rail from Brazil and the guys at Muncie did a great job for this locomotive. Congratulations!!

@timkneller3141 Год назад

She looks wonderful! Great job everyone!

@zygmundzygmundowski Год назад

Awesome 👏

@canyontiger4022 Год назад

This locomotive looks amazing. My hats off to the men and women of the FWRR for all of their hard work. Bravo to you!

@Alco16-251F Год назад

Well how about that, another NKP restoration! Bring it to Steamtown and put it with the NKP 514 and that would look SICK.

@FostoriaOhiomodelrailroadclub Год назад

I can't wait to see it in person you guys did an awesome job

@quasimoto7662 Год назад

Great to see, and hopefully we get lucky to have more news on other stuff, regarding 358 and the other stuff with the FWRHS in the near future

@OfficialSEIC2K6 Год назад

Nickel Plate Road SD9 #358 gets it's 1950s looks back. Nickel Plate Road #358 the backup locomotive on NKP #765 excursions.

@stampycatfan01lol Год назад

Even with the ditchlights (which as I saw are removable), the locomotive looks fantastic!

@MrJeep75 8 месяцев назад

Awesome job

@karenuppling4602 Год назад

My father, son in law of Raymond S Harms worked for my grandfather for more than 45 yrs. Oh how. Family loved free or 1/2 prices back & forth to Ft Wayne where my Grandma Retta & Ray were from. Oh How Dad loved the RR & got such a kick over it being named “The NickelPlate which of course referred to what a nickel wld look like after being run over by an Engine. So that’s how it got it’s name, the NickelPlate.

@bensipiorski6645 Год назад

She looks amazing!

@lagunsmoose Год назад

Wow, she's beautiful!! Pat on the back to everyone involved with bringing this back to better than her former glory!! Great job to all!! 👏👏👏

@julesplace9107 5 месяцев назад

On a more trivial note... I have always thought the SD9 was the toughest looking locomotives ever build. Love 'em.

@Survivor1547 Год назад

Nice a restoration of a 1950 Norfolk Southern (Nickle Plate Raiload) Locomotive.

@RFMCabooseNP1713 Год назад

Looks fantastic.

@NorthriverRR Год назад

Having grown up in an area of California, where SD9s were a common sight, I was fooled at the beginning of the video by the light package and high hood. I thought that there was a Southern Pacific unit hidden under that paint.

@sisenbarg Год назад

Great work. Nice!

@michaelg7607 Год назад

She look good.

@vuurvrproductions4656 Год назад

it would’ve been more crazy if they got NS 8100 the NKP heritage unit

@Coloribus2004 Год назад

Everyone seems to overlook these magnificent first gen diesels!

@adriaanboogaard8571 Год назад

Great stuff. I'm glad you saved her. I would like if you have it to see a video of the body and paint process. I have a few Freinds with Auto body shops that would love to see it . I've seen one in time laps of another unit. It was cool.

@douglaswilliams8882 Год назад

So when are you going to do restoration on nkp 624 seen you are done with 358 now

@mpxpressrailfanning3944 Год назад

That is a killer SD9 Livery. Super cool that EMD got involved too. Really came full circle if you ask me 🪙🍽️🛣️

@berrytharp1334 Год назад

The EMD that manufactured this locomotive doesn't exist anymore.

@mpxpressrailfanning3944 Год назад

@@berrytharp1334 ik but it’s pretty close to what it was. The abbreviation EMD still is prevalent in progress rail’s branding but it now stands for electro motive diesel. Idk if the EMD subsidiary was involved in this but whatever

@TheRealRajo6466 Год назад

@@berrytharp1334 EMD is pretty much still exist, just in the new ownership

@torquetrain8963 Год назад

Original 567 roots blown ?

@dti407 Год назад

WD!!!!!11

@anb7408 2 месяца назад

Ironic that they show a brand new Tier-4 EMD......that only lasted three years and is already sitting in a Kentucky dead line. Meanwhile, this 70 year old SD-9 is still chugging. They don't build them like they used to!

@That_Thicc_Cat Год назад

It looks gorgeous, they did an amazing job!

@prtdrums 19 дней назад

SHE IS EXQUISITE

@mark-wn5ek Год назад

As a person who started my railroad career on early GP’s and SD’s and several further generations of locomotives and knowing full well the ins and outs of most of them, under real world applications, I’m amazed at how grown men become googled eyed at so much scrap iron. You’d think it was the space shuttle! If any of these folks had to spend upwards of thirty years sweating their ass’s off in one of these hot and filthy throbbing engines, being banged and knocked around flat switching heavy cuts or sitting behind a red block on a 95f day while the dispatcher picked his nose and scratched his behind, you’d have a different opinion of the whole shebang. Only thing I can say about these early generation locomotives is the 567’s had a whine all their own and clack-clack of contacts at transition is something you’ll never forget….along with the cold drafts in winter, noisy heaters that rarely worked well and dynamics’s that hadn’t worked in thirty years and weren’t much when they did. Prop the doors open with a flag stick in summer and tape the windows and doors up in winter. Put all the makeup you want on her but she’s still just a worn out old hag underneath. I ran’em all from a handful of F units to cw4400’s when I retired. Now those engines are being scrapped. Good riddance.

@fortwaynerailroad Год назад

Howdy, Mark, welcome to the page where this collective of veteran railroaders and non-railroaders have spent 51 years sweating in our bibs operating a 1940s-era steam locomotive and running it in the majority of states east of the Mississippi for half a dozen Class Is in all manner of territory. You’d have a different opinion of the whole shebang if you'd ever picked up an alemite gun on a 109 degrees summer day, shoveled 200 miles with a broken stoker, danced with a busted a waterglass, drove 400 rivets with an air gun, or had to shovel cinders and ashes after a 16 hour day. If anything, being in an enclosed cab for once is a vacation! Enjoy retirement.

@Trains-With-Shane Год назад

Such beautiful work. Hats off to the people at Progress Rail that got her looking factory fresh and the entire Fort Wayne team that got her back on her feet in the first place. Another beautiful piece of EMD Railroading history avoids the torch. I'm not crying, You're crying!

@NateTheMononRailfan Год назад

Looks like it hopped out from the shops right after it was being made. You guys did a very very awesome job on it!

@KnapfordMaster98 7 месяцев назад

6-axle high nose diesels are just the coolest

@Arkay315 Год назад

That is amazing, it looks like it's brand new from the works.

@shawndoyle7531 Год назад

She looks fantastic! The installation of modern amenities such as the ditch lights look like they were put on from the factory, everything looks brand new, and the prime mover idles extremely smooth like it was freshly built or overhauled. Outstanding work to all and congratulations on reaching this big milestone and finishing an extraordinary project!

@fortwaynerailroad Год назад

And the ditch lights are removable 💯

@shawndoyle7531 Год назад

@@fortwaynerailroad you all really did think of everything. How did you engineer that to work? (pun intended)

@alcopower5710 Год назад

Looks amazing 👍

@RetiredEE Год назад

Outstanding!

@kurtlawson4012 Год назад

It's beautiful!

@johnpandolfino8663 Год назад

Stunning work.....bet you guy's are very proud of how she looks.....

@wesw9586 Год назад

She is gorgeous! Thanks to all that contributed!

@Demon_Outlaw Год назад

Huge congratulations 🎉 she is amazing and beautiful

@WJP1361 Год назад

Im going to be the first to ask, if ever will you install PTC on 358 so 765 can do mainline runs again someday?

@vettebecker1 Год назад

Awesome!

@ShawnC.W-King Год назад

She looks gorgeous; 358 can now rock with 765

@lawnmowermanTX Год назад

I’d be happy to see her fire up, tap her horns and back out on her own power! The paint job is awesome! Kudos!! I’m in Texas and most of our railroads are gone, and forgotten.. Central Texas used to have a few good railroad lines.. Cotton Belt, St Louis Southwestern, Central Texas Railway, Peanut Line, Stephenville Texas North and South.. Massive Respect for your love and passion of keeping Fort Wayne railroads rolling! When it’s gone, it’s gone forever! Treasure and the railroads alive! I wanted to see USS Texas, fire up her boilers and engage her propellors turn her rudder to cruise around the Gulf of Mexico, but everyone is broke and can’t afford it! 😵😵🫨🫨😭😭🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@crackerbarrel6965 Год назад

She’s beautiful.

@michaelmcdougall4527 Год назад

My 🎩 off to Everyone a GREAT JOB, Im Looking Forward to seeing Her Live 🚂🚂

@tommyhunter1817 Год назад

That is badass guys. Great job! Love the SD9.

@zuel660 Год назад

Excellent work!! If only former Western Maryland GP-9 #39 could be restored in similar fashion....

@christopherscarpino8994 Год назад

Beautiful... Again!

@sgttombailes3380 Год назад

OUTSTANDING !!!

@CTK1201 6 месяцев назад

That is an AMAZING Job on 358! VERY Well Done!

@SPDaylightGuy Год назад

Amazing!

@Apoptart Год назад

HOLY CRAP! SHE IS GORGEOUS!

@ShawnCalay 6 месяцев назад

In this day and age are we sure it's a she? Locomotives identify under at least 99 genders.

@maestromecanico597 Год назад

First gen running with the latest and greatest. Class.

@chrismiller5198 Год назад

This is such a fitting companion for 514.

@richardbrobeck2384 Год назад

Beautiful restoration !

@F40M07 Год назад

NS 8100: “AHEM YOU TRYNA STEAL MY FAME?!?” Great job you guys.

@kristoffermangila Год назад

NKP 358: "I've first worn these colors since I and my siblings left La Grange in '58, little boy!"

@santafewarbonnetproductions Год назад

It's always cool to see a locomotive in a fresh coat of paint

@jeffgrier8488 Год назад

Absolutely awesome! Great work!

@rsconover7957 Год назад

That’s beautiful! He’ll be great at pulling passenger trains with 765! I’m really excited for everything else to be ready!

@charlesstevenson5141 Год назад

I feel that one of each locomotive ever produced should be preserved.

@torquetrain8963 Год назад

Couldn't agree with you more.

@KraigSickels Год назад

It is really just warms my heart ❤️ that there are people out there that actually care about locomotives 🚂 and railroad history 😊 👍💯 !! Thank you 🙏 !!

@fredburban8219 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for "Giving Back" As a child i saw Steam, then as a young man I saw high nose diesels. Thank you for the memories. It takes Real People in Management to take on a project like this for the public. Thank you

@devinrogers6877 8 месяцев назад

Wow , just a beutiful looking machine ..great job 😊

@e-train765 Год назад

Spectacular 😍😍👏👏👏🖤💛 congrats guys!

@Mark-v1x1w 3 месяца назад

Congratulations to all on all your time and effort to bring this locomotive back to near new condition. Absolutely breathtaking !!🥃

@ShawnCalay 6 месяцев назад

Its amazing to be a 21 year veteran of the CC-IC-CN...i retired at 43 and now run a trucking company that delivers alot to the old EMD facility in Lagrange were my mom worked in bay 6...

@laurenttober5748 Год назад

Absolutely stunning!!!! Amazing job guys, from an american railway fan in australia.

@BenjaminEsposti Год назад

SD9 is one of my favorites!

@aaronryherd6607 Год назад

We have an active stretch of ex NKP track here in Central Illinois. Sure would be awesome if she came back home to stretch her legs.

@Bill-sp8kb Год назад

Looks like it's ready to pull hotshot, piggyback trains, at 65 mph!

@JLIRailPro Год назад

Amazing job on it!! I hope to see her and 765 come together through Pennsylvania someday in the future! Your team of people did an amazing job on it!

@MERailfan698NC Год назад

That is just plain awesome

@sernajrlouis Год назад

Cool video and channel just subscribed

@ssgogeta29 Год назад

So happy it’s back up and running. A way better reveal than CSX’s trash heritage units.

@Amtrak503 Год назад

oh not one of you guys, I had to deal with one you stupid people, I hope you regret saying that because what if they remove all the YN3/YN3B/C units? would you be happy? No. so... make up your mind about the csx heritage units, then you'll see how good they are.