Nickel Plate Road 587 Steam Train 

The footage at the timestamp was shot in 1989 during the NRHS Convention activities. At the time it was shot, 587 had already received the whistle off of NKP 624 which it wore up to 2002. Any footage that was shot after the 1989 Independence Limited, 587 was wearing NKP 624's whistle and not its original whistle that it received from Baldwin in 1918 which it wore from 1918 to June 1989 (its original whistle was retired in 1989 and hasnt been used since then)

@@NickelPlatedProductions I thought the broken 5-chime was a CB&Q whistle. That's what I always heard it was.

That will be brilliant!

Its at this point at Matter of its private owner to pull the funds together, create a plan with KSHCO and then KSHCO working on it over a few months to years. Chris Campbell of KSHCO mentioned during one of the Trains Magazine streams during the Ravenna Railfest last year that theres some "I's to be dotted and T's to be crossed before an announcement of the restoration is made." For now, its a waiting game until said Announcement or announcements are made.

That 587 was in Broad Ripple park for years as a display piece and they pulled it out of the park in about 1984 and restored it and it became the Indiana state fair train for years

@@zoltanliszkai2162 ik

The real tragedy here is just how many of those Santa Fe coaches got cut up thanks to ITM being stupid

This is 587

It’s off from a sister engine 639 that had stoker problems. Before the locomotive was retired, they swapped tenders in order to keep it operating.

Yes

It’s on the Indiana Railroad. Notice the diesel at the rear.

This was from the October 29th, 1988 Excursion over the Indiana Railroad. That run comprised of a Trip from Indianapolis Union Station to Bloomington Indiana for an Indiana University Football game versus Iowa State that took place on the 29th along with a trip over Tulip Trestle.

@@NickelPlatedProductions thanks!

@@regularguy7266 you are very welcome, glad i was able to help

Lots of people were out there

I wouldn't say strongest...

Great Northern O-8s had the highest TE of any mike, rivaled 4-8-4 territory

@@HematomaFalafalPatrol damn, that's impressive.

​@@evanf1293 yep, 80,000 lbs of tractive effort, could single-handedly outpower any berkshire or northern. They also had one of the highest axle loads of any steam engine, over 81,000 lbs. The only engine to surpase that was the C&O Allegheny.

​The N&W class J's had the same tractive effort, so the O-8's couldn't out power every Northern.

The shots in the beginning were shot in September & October of 1988. The coal train trackage to the Indianapolis Power & Light plant is still in service (but the locations are not as distinguishable) along the shots on the Indiana Railroad is still in service as well just not used as much. I don't know if trackage used footage the Independence Limited or NRHS Convention activities are still active or not.

For the 1997 versions of ILTT, Tom McComas made a trade with the then owner of Berkshire Productions for copies of the shows. Tom subsequently used footage from Grants Berkshire Productions shows in a number of his Productions (Great Lionel Layouts, I Love Toy Trains, I Love Big Trains,etc.)

Glad you enjoyed

If they ever finish the rebuild