Firebox still hot, NKP 765 rests the evening of 7/25/11 at the 18th Street yard in Logansport, IN during its return from Train Festival 2011 held in Rockford, IL, The train is heading to Ft. Wayn... (more)

On its return from Train Festival 2011 held in Rockford, IL, NKP 765 crosses the Wabash River at 18th Street in Logansport, IN at sunset on 07/25/11. The train is heading to the 18th Street Yard f... (more)

Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam program's The Commodore Vanderbilt Employee Special passes through Dunlap, IN on its way east to Bryan, OH and return to Elkhart.

NKP 765 performs a photo run-by for Indiana Rail Experiance

At the Hillsdale Depot, an old wig-wag provides a nice contrast to the nicely maintained Berkshire as it rolls to a stop

Nickel Plate Road 765 heads north with the excursion train towards Hillsdale, passing an old elevator in downtown Montgomery.

765 heads north towards Hillsdale on its final excursion of the year.

Shortly after departing Angola, 765 heads north through the backwoods of northern Indiana. This will be the final excursion 765 would pull for the year.

765 nears the tail end of its excursion on a rainy October afternoon.

#765 charges ahead during the last photo run-by of the weekend. For those on board, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society ran run-bys at Ray, IN

A quarter mile from the finish, Nickle Plate #765 rolls into the golden sun on what turned out to be a perfect fall afternoon

While #765 has certainly climbed stiffer grades in it's excursion career, the locomotive surely put on a respectable show climbing into this crossing

A white picket fence and a lima locomotive works Berkshire. That sounds like the American Dream to me! Either way, Nickel Plate Road #765 steams into Bankers, Michigan with the second of two fall ... (more)

765 leads the eastbound New River Train at Charleston West Virginia.

Consist of one of the few excursions run over the Paducah and Louisville. I wish I hadn't missed those. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection. Happy July 4th!