This is a coal-fired S-2 2-8-4 steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1944. It was used as New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad # 757 (this railroad was frequently nicknamed the "Nickel Plate Road"). After a merger in the 1960s, the engine was part of the Norfolk & Western Railway roster. It is now in the collection of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in the town of Strasburg. Info. from rgusrail.com: "# 757 is an S-2 class Berkshire type (2-8-4) locomotive built by Lima for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad in 1944. The first 2-8-4, built by Lima in 1925 for New York Central Railroad's leased Boston & Albany, inaugurated the "superpower" steam era in the U.S. The four-wheel trailing truck of the Boston & Albany [class A-1 locomotive] permitted a larger firebox and boiler, producing power and speed not seen before. The new wheel arrangement was dubbed the "Berkshire" after the mountain range it conquered operating between Springfield and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Nickel Plate Road bought fifteen S class Berkshires (# 700-# 714) from Alco in 1934, followed in 1942 by twenty-five S-1 class from Lima (# 715-# 739), thirty S-2 class in 1943 (# 740-# 769), and ten S-3 class in 1949 (# 770-# 779). The last of these, # 779, was the last steam locomotive produced by Lima. The locomotive weighs 440,800 pounds, has 69 inch drivers and 25 inch x 34 inch cylinders. With a 90.3 square feet grate, 461 square feet firebox, and total heating surface of 6,810 square feet (including 1,992 superheating), it operated at a boiler pressure of 245 pounds per square inch, delivering 64,135 pounds of tractive effort. The S class were high-speed freight locomotives, with which the Nickel Plate Road successfully competed against the parallel lines of the much larger New York Central Railroad system between Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. # 757 was gifted to the museum by the Norfolk & Western in 1966 (the Nickel Plate Road merged into the Norfolk & Western in 1964), the first locomotive donated to the museum. It is one of five preserved Nickel Plate Road S-2s."
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Photo by the late Jack Ray. Another "rescued" slide - deteriorated and not very sharp - but of historical interest. It appears that West Coast Main Line cleaning standards were not of the highest order at this time, judging by the unkempt appearance of the "Duchess" and what appears to be a "Royal Scot" in the background.
A steamy Willesden shed on 10/6/64 with (l to r) 70034 'Thomas Hardy', m45056, 45328, 42431, 48479, 78033, 73033 and 47501. ©Hugh Ballantyne/www.railphotoprints.co.uk
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Inside the former LMS Railway's Manningham steam engine shed Bradford in 1966. This railway print depicts a Fairburn 2-6-4 tank locomotive being turned on the turntable. Signed giclee print on 190gsm art gloss thick paper/card Image size: 430mm x 360mm Overall size: 500mm x 410mm
May 30th, 1968 Thankfully now preserved is Black 5 45212 seen here joining the wcml at Farington Junction, near Lostock Hall, Preston, with a mixed goods. Ref B3-26
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