American Railroad Steam Locomotives, Nickel Plate Road collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0978

Collection Organization

American Railroad: Steam Locomotives: Nickel Plate Road - Ohio, Indiana, IL, PA, NY

Blueprints, drawings and tracings 1934-1958. A full inventory is located on the microfilm reels.

compiled by Wayne York Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Inc. P.O. Box 11015 Fort Wayne, IN 46855

April 2002

1 - Title Page and Index

2 - Introduction

5 - FWRHS Official History Booklet, Locomotive 765. By Brendel & York - 1980.

25 - Official Diagram, Specification Card, Selected Monthly and Annual Reports and miscellaneous mechanical documents

43 - Photographs

a-Locomotive 757, new, Lima Locomotive Works, right broadside view b-same, Lima, OH, left broadside view, 1944 c-same, right 7/8 view, front d-same, left 7/8 view, front e-same, cab interior (fireman on left side, engineer on right side) f-same, front vertical view g-NKP 765 under Bellevue, OH, coal dock. Richard Cook Photo, vertical shot h-NKP 765 under Bellevue, OH, coal dock. Richard Cook Photo, horizontal shot i-NKP 765 arrives in Bellevue Yard with Second OB-2, EB fast freight. R. Cook j-NKP 765 eastbound with refrigerator cars at Cornell Rd., Cleveland, OH June 21, 1946. Onerio L. Sabetto photo k-NKP 765 eastbound at Cedar Ave., Cleveland, OH, with passenger train #7, July 6, 1946. Photo by Onerio L. Sabetto l-NKP 779 enroute to Chicago Railroad Fair at Cleveland, OH, July 1949. Official NKP Photo by John D. Burger, collection of John B. Corns m-NKP 765 at E. Wayne Yards, New Haven, IN Oct. 3, 1953. W. Swartz photo n-NKP 765 at Hobart, IN Feb.1958. Color view by Russ Porter, Wm. Eley coll. o-same, rear 7/8 view, color. 58 - Inventory of Tracings, Blueprints and Drawings for Nickel Plate Road S-2 and S-3 Class steam locomotives-sorted by increasing sizes (1-12)

77 - Tracings, Blueprints and Drawings- total of approximately 950

Index

 File – Reel 1

Introduction

 File – Reel 1

Historical Booklet

 File – Reel 1

Misc. Documents

 File – Reel 1

Photographs

 File – Reel 1

Inventory

 File – Reel 1

Tracings, Blueprints & Drawings - 10 1 10 to 81 3 38

 File – Reel 1

Inventory

 File – Reel 2

Tracings, Blueprints & Drawings - 81 3 84 to 95 12 269

 File – Reel 2