Nickel Plate Road 765, a 1944-vintage, Lima "Berkshire" type steam locomotive, is operated by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. In 2015, we followed the locomotive to Leipsic, Ohio on its annual test run.
What a gorgeous and noble locomotive!! Although I’m an Englishman, living in Hertfordshire, and having access to British steam locomotives, I HAVE visited America and stayed with cousins in Shelbyville, Indiana.
Most British locomotives have their running numbers on the smoke box door. It’s nice to see that there are some differences between English locomotives and American locomotives.
Rolling coal on the Nickel Plate. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. The NKP is my favorite granger. Always loved the numbering style on the engines. Is there a name for that script style? And big thank you to Drayton for this impeccably put together content.
At least as far as ns is concerned manifest freights are those mixed car trains you see almost all the time. We also have you bulk freights which are usually like coal trains and rock or grain and then we have container or as most other conductors i know call em "pig" trains.
