After changing hands and making the cross-country trek east, this rare streamliner was put on display before restoration work continued to return this locomotive to operation.

PA and PA in PA: An N-scale NKP PA poses next to the real thing at Steamtown.

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

The Tower protected the crossing of the Nickel Plate Clover Leaf and The Illinois Central Gruber Line.

There was a brief window in time where the unthinkable was possible. Here, the 190 has travelled across country to join other classic cab units in Spencer.

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 1500hp FM H12-44 No.153 built 4/58 one of twenty-two (134-155) owned by the NKP. Number 153 was in yard service at Toledo, Ohio on August 2,1963. Photo by Howard Ameling, from ... (more)

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)