Glory Days As 765 backs toward Bridge 60, time seemed to stop, albeit briefly, with both 765 and 759.
Together Again If you can "visually remove" the Big Boy, the F3A, and the mountain in the back, this could easily pass for Conneaut or Bellevue in the 50's.
"NKP Visits DLW"
One would expect a main line steam locomotive and 13-car train to drift listlessly down grade through the curves while passing the restored station at Cresco, Pa., but not here. Engineer Rich Melv... (more)
Two sisters reunited after more than half a century.
Nickel Plate Berk #765 leads an excursion on the DL mainline past the former DL&W station in Scranton, PA. The train is bound for Steamtown National Historic Site, coming up from the Delaware Wate... (more)
The NKP 765 excursion from Steamtown to the Delaware Water Gap rolls EB through the Delaware Water Gap on the former DL&W main. It is on the way to Portland to turn the engine on the wye.
The Nickel Plate 765 backs out past Lackawanna 664 on its way to hook up to its excursion cars.
The NKP Berkshire lets off a nice oily plume as it stomps past East Stoudsburg on it's final leg to the Delaware Water Gap out of Steamtown on a beautiful Saturday in the Poconos.
The NKP 765 excursion from Steamtown to the Delaware Water Gap arrives at Slateford Jct. on the "Old Mainline". This was once the junction of the DL&W Cutoff and the DL&W Old Mainline.
Nickel Plate Road No. 765 arrives at Slateford Junction with an excursion from Scranton. That's the Delaware Water Gap in the background.
Nickel Plate Road No. 765 stomps its way upgrade out of Scranton on the former Pocono Main of the Lackawanna.
What a great sound the big Berk made stomping up the mountain from the valley. Almost drowned out by the sound of a hundred shutter drives as the daylight begins to wane to evening.
The Phoebe Snow Special passing under the old Lackawanna signal bridge along William Street
Nickel Plate 765 battles the grade through Cresco.
