Steamtown Railfest this year featured the Nickel Plate Railroad railroad to celebrate NKP 759 80th birthday. The locomotive even sitting stuffed is my favorite as it was the first locomotive I see... (more)

Observation Platform. A visit to Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania on June 29, 2016 found former Nickel Plate Road 759 (S-2 Berkshire, 2-8-4, Lima, 1944) flanked on... (more)

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

Two old tonnage-maulers, comparing notes and giving us a chance to examine their different front-end styles.

Up close and personal with the Nickle Plate Road 759, which sits tucked away in the roundhouse at the Steamtown National Historic Site.

The NKP 759 has benefited from many years of indoor storage at Steamtown, and is seen here in a rare outside display during the 2015 visit of sister engine 765. Built by Lima in August, 1944, the... (more)

Somewhere on the Jersey Central, destination Jim Thorpe, PA. The low rail joint evident here was unfortunately very common on the bankrupt northeastern railroads. At the apparent speed here, the p... (more)

Slumbering Giants: Former NKP and High Iron Company berkshire #759 and Grand Trunk Western #6039 sleep peacefully within the Steamtown roundhouse. Perhaps one day these hulking giants of steam wil... (more)

AAR Golden Spike Special A Roger Puta Photograph

With the Golden Spike Special. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Former Nickle Plate Berkshire displayed at Steamtown's Railfest.

For the first time in many years NKP 759 is outside basking in sunlit to meet her sister NKP 765 fot railfest.

Two Nickel Plate sisters rest in the same roundhouse for the first time in probably six decades as Berkshire No. 759 is joined by No. 765. No. 759 has been a Steamtown fixture since the 1960s, wit... (more)

Sleeping Beauty- Resting peacefully in her stall, former High Iron Co. steam star 759 sits cold and forlorn, probably longing for heat in her firebox and steam in her cylinders once again...