American Railroad Steam Locomotives, Nickel Plate Road collection
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