Nickel Plate Road Berkshire #759 leads a long excursion train into Allentown Yard. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

NKP 765 with the Joliet Rocket arrives LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, IL.

EMD GP30 Nickel Plate Road 900 was built in June of 1962. It would later become Norfolk & Western Railway 2900 and ultimately Norfolk Southern Railroad 2900 before retirement, where it is preserve... (more)

Nickel Plate 329 was built in June, 1957, and is one of 9 RSD-12s produced by Alco for the Nickel Plate Road. It would later become Norfolk & Western Railway 254, and today resides in Bellevue, OH... (more)

A recent additon to the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum collection is Nickel Plate Road 757, a 1944 Lima built 2-8-4 that is commonly referred to as a "Berkshire". Originally donated to ... (more)

A large portion of the outdoor collection of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, OH is displayed next to Southwest Street. Wabash F7A 671, NKP GP 30 900, and NKP RSD-12 329 headine a ... (more)

NKP #358 sits in the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society shop and is being restored to operating condition. This SD9 was one of twenty delivered to the NKP in either April or May of 1957 for u... (more)

Runnin’ Late in ’88!

The final excursion of the 1988 NRHS convention was planned to be a 420-mile round trip from Bound Brook, New Jersey to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The air c... (more)

NKP 765, with a 1984 National Railway Historical Society Convention train, is stopped just east of Ft. Thomas, KY to check its running gear.

It’s early evening, and the passengers of 1988 NRHS Convention circle trip to Reading should be having dinner or at their hotels. Instead, they are just entering the Allentown area, and will fin... (more)

Temple Pit Stop

The 1988 NRHS convention was plagued with logistical issues, and many of the scheduled excursions started late and only got later. The July 24 round trip to the Blu... (more)

The 1988 NRHS convention featured two excursions with Nickel Plate 765 making forays from northern New Jersey into eastern Pennsylvania. The first, on July 24, 1988, ran down Conrail’s West Tren... (more)

With the Steam in the Valley event getting more and more difficult to utilize for photo opportunities of 765, I was forced to take what I can get when it comes to getting a pacing shot and other p... (more)

The NKP 765 is ready to head up and over Penobscot Mountain on the return trip to Bethlehem.

NKP 514 pulls a Steamtown excursion through Moscow on their way East to Gouldsboro.