File:New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road) - 757 steam locomotive (S-2 2-8-4) & tender 1 (26514541484).jpg
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DescriptionNew York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road) - 757 steam locomotive (S-2 2-8-4) & tender 1 (26514541484).jpg |
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.
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Author | James St. John |
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