Logo
Gary Everhart's Collection
 
2/11/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Nickel Plate
Model:Lima 2-8-4Built As:NKP 759 (2-8-4)
Serial Number:8667Order No:1184
Frame Number:25X34 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:8/1944
Notes:Steamtown NHS
Other locos with this serial:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  One of Lima's finest locomotives were the 2-8-4 Berkshires labeled by Lima as "Horsepower at Speed". Here in an unlabeled roundhouse, a crewman checks NKP 759 drivers. No date was listed either for this photo. Forrest Trittenbach photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:57:18 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  1407   Comments: 0
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  One of Lima's finest locomotives were the 2-8-4 Berkshires labeled by Lima as "Horsepower at Speed". Here in an unlabeled roundhouse, a crewman checks NKP 759 pilot. No date was listed either for this photo. Forrest Trittenbach photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:57:30 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  1415   Comments: 0
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  One of Lima's finest locomotives were the 2-8-4 Berkshires labeled by Lima as "Horsepower at Speed". Here in an unlabeled roundhouse, a crewman checks NKP 759 trailing trucks. No date was listed either for this photo. Forrest Trittenbach photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:57:41 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  803   Comments: 0
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  Sharp looking with its white rims and shiny body, NKP 759 stands ready in this unknown location and date.
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:57:49 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  1416   Comments: 0
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  With a full head of steam and an engineer looking down the track, NKP 759 rolls past Forrest Trittenbach while he took the picture on this unknown date and location.
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:58:00 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  880   Comments: 0
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  Posed outside the unknown roundhouse, NKP 759 looks like power in persona. Hope someone can identify this roundhouse.
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:58:12 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  773   Comments: 0
NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759, Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR)
Description:  Standing proud among other locomotives, NKP 759 can hold its own. With the Union Pacific tender in the background, it makes me think this might have been at the original Steamtown USA at Bellows Falls, VT. Can anyone identify the roundhouse in these photos as being the Bellows Falls location?
Photo Date:  6/1/1967  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 8:58:24 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  2141   Comments: 3
NKP 2-8-4 #759 - Nickel Plate Road
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759 - Nickel Plate Road
Description:  This beautiful profile of the Lima 2-8-4 Berkshire was caught while the locomotive headed up the "Golden Spike Limited" on its return trip back to Steamtown after visiting Promontory, Utah for the "Driving of the Golden Spike Ceremony" in 1969. After faithfully serving the Nickel Plate Road, the locomotive was mercifully sold for scrap to F. Nelson Blount on October 16, 1962 who preserved it at Steamtown National Historic Site now in Scranton, PA. No photographer was listed for this fine photo.
Photo Date:  8/23/1969  Upload Date: 6/10/2019 6:19:10 AM
Location:  Lebanon, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
NKP 2-8-4 #759 - Nickel Plate Road
Title:  NKP 2-8-4 #759 - Nickel Plate Road
Description:  This interesting photo was taken by an unknown photographer while Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire #759 was heading up one of the fan excursions it led while operational at Steamtown National Historic Site. Definitely a more "modern" way of loading coal than a traditional coaling tower used to be and far more fans watching than used to at a coaling tower too.. Note the Western Maryland Alco S2 #126 which headed up the coaling train. It would be retired two years later. Note on the back of the photo states "NKP 759 on train AJ-1 and AJ-2 being loaded at Cumberland." No photographer was listed for this action photo.
Photo Date:  9/21/1970  Upload Date: 6/10/2019 6:19:13 AM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) WM 126(S2)
Views:  760   Comments: 3


Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors
  Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net