NKP 765 to Run on Norfolk Southern

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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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