NKP 765 to Run on Norfolk Southern

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Fri Apr 20 14:20:02 EDT 2012


Sounds like we're out of luck here in the big-steam starved East. But I
hope I'm wrong.

Greg Harrod


In a message dated 4/20/2012 2:00:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:





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Nickel Plate 765 will be used on NS this summer pulling a business train
to help celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Story is below:

765 to Help Celebrate Norfolk Southern's 30th Anniversary

12 March 2012Events, Featured, News

The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society is proud to announce that
restored Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive no. 765 has been tapped to help
celebrate Norfolk Southern's 30th Anniversary. The locomotive will pull a
special business train, operating out of the railroad's terminals in Fort Wayne,
Elkhart, and Muncie, Indiana as well as in Bellevue and Toledo, Ohio.

Created in 1982 with the merger of the Southern Railway and Norfolk and
Western Railway, the railway operates 20,000 miles in 22 states with 28,000
employees. As part of its celebration, Norfolk Southern is honoring its
corporate heritage by painting 18 of its locomotives in historic paint schemes
that commemorate the dozens of railroad companies that were eventually
merged into the system Norfolk Southern presently operates. Included will be a
vintage livery that pays homage to the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis or
Nickel Plate Road, the railroad that the 765 was originally built for.

Founded in 1972, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Inc will also
be celebrating its own 40th Anniversary in 2012. The railroad historical
society was the first all volunteer, non-profit to restore and operate a
mainline steam locomotive after removing no. 765 from Fort Wayne's Lawton Park
in 1974 and rehabilitating it to operating condition in 1979. The
1944-built locomotive has traveled over 50,000 miles in public exhibition and
excursion service and was recently rebuilt in 2005.

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