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Owner: Nickel Plate
Model:Lima 2-8-4Built As:NKP 765 (2-8-4)
Serial Number:8673Order No:1184
Frame Number:25X34 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:8/1944
Notes:S-2, In Service, FWRHS
Other locos with this serial:  NKP 765(2-8-4) CO 2765(2-8-4)
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NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 7:51:35 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Connor Frasier
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  109   Comments: 1
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 7:53:49 PM
Location:  Portland, PA
Author:  Connor Frasier
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  130   Comments: 1
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 7:54:46 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Connor Frasier
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  101   Comments: 1
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 10:02:50 PM
Location:  Cresco, PA
Author:  Connor Frasier
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  93   Comments: 1
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 10:07:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Connor Frasier
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
NKP 765 heads towards Slateford, PA on a Labor Day excursion
Title:  NKP 765 heads towards Slateford, PA on a Labor Day excursion
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 10/2/2015 6:55:23 PM
Location:  Delaware Water Gap, PA
Author:  Thom Horvath
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Nickel Plate #765 after a hard days work.
Title:  Nickel Plate #765 after a hard days work.
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/14/2015 6:32:51 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Brian James
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  1356   Comments: 7
Starting up the 1.6% at 10:46 a.m.
Title:  Starting up the 1.6% at 10:46 a.m.
Description:  About to pass the Jacobson Hat Co.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:22:36 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  109   Comments: 1
Passing under the classic Lackawanna signal bridge
Title:  Passing under the classic Lackawanna signal bridge
Description:  11:34 a.m. at the Moscow freight station
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:25:07 PM
Location:  Moscow, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Station,Steam,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  120   Comments: 1
The 765 rolls down the grade toward Tobyhanna at 12:13 p.m.
Title:  The 765 rolls down the grade toward Tobyhanna at 12:13 p.m.
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:28:19 PM
Location:  Tobyhanna, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  106   Comments: 1
Passing the idling Alcos without stopping
Title:  Passing the idling Alcos without stopping
Description:  Lima-Alco power at its best...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:29:00 PM
Location:  Tobyhanna, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DL 3642(C636)
Views:  146   Comments: 1
The Phoebe Snow Special rolls under the Lackawanna signal bridge along William Street
Title:  The Phoebe Snow Special rolls under the Lackawanna signal bridge along William Street
Description:  1:12 p.m., with the local populace out in force...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:33:18 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  145   Comments: 1
765 pulls the Phoebe Snow Special through the beautiful Delaware Water Gap
Title:  765 pulls the Phoebe Snow Special through the beautiful Delaware Water Gap
Description:  2:09 p.m., after discharging the passengers
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:36:52 PM
Location:  Delaware Water Gap, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  176   Comments: 1
765 with its cistern and tool car heading to the Portland wye
Title:  765 with its cistern and tool car heading to the Portland wye
Description:  2:40 p.m.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:41:03 PM
Location:  Portland, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  137   Comments: 0
Heading back to pick up passengers after wyeing
Title:  Heading back to pick up passengers after wyeing
Description:  3:44 p.m.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:44:28 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
Chuffing along PA Route 611
Title:  Chuffing along PA Route 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:45:25 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  121   Comments: 1
About to cross Analomink Street at 4:22 p.m.
Title:  About to cross Analomink Street at 4:22 p.m.
Description:  Accelerating up the grade toward Gravel Place, shaking the ground...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:48:34 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
Thundering past the Cresco station at 4:59 p.m.
Title:  Thundering past the Cresco station at 4:59 p.m.
Description:  The sound was incredible! Speed, about 15 mph...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:50:08 PM
Location:  Cresco, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  275   Comments: 2
On the level track by the Tobyhanna tower and station
Title:  On the level track by the Tobyhanna tower and station
Description:  5:39 p.m.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:51:25 PM
Location:  Tobyhanna, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  134   Comments: 2
A final shot at the Jacobson Hat Co.
Title:  A final shot at the Jacobson Hat Co.
Description:  6:53 p.m.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 10:52:27 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  162   Comments: 4
The Berkshires
Title:  The Berkshires
Description:  Off the turntable, passing its sister engine and making its way through the yard,
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 4/10/2016 10:40:16 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Stephen Bradley
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  458   Comments: 2
The NKP sisters, finally together!
Title:  The NKP sisters, finally together!
Description:  If only they were both under steam....
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:54:49 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  417   Comments: 2
Just shooting in B&W brings back the old days....
Title:  Just shooting in B&W brings back the old days....
Description:  Seeing this shot in black & white makes you think of days gone by at the Lackawanna Rail Yards
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:56:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  274   Comments: 2
765 pulls into the roundhouse
Title:  765 pulls into the roundhouse
Description:  About to take her spot on the turntable, our honorable visitor pulls her nose into the turntable yard
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:58:30 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
The NS911 and NKP 765
Title:  The NS911 and NKP 765
Description:  What a combination of power... Yesterday & today
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:02:28 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NS 911(SD60E) CP 2279(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
On the turntable
Title:  On the turntable
Description:  765 steams it up on the turntable at Steamtown, wowing the railfans of what is soon to come, the run of the Phoebe Snow!!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:17:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NS 911(SD60E) IC 790(2-8-0)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
From inside the Roundhouse
Title:  From inside the Roundhouse
Description:  A peek at 765 from inside her sister's stall in the roundhouse
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:18:39 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
A shot from the 1940s??
Title:  A shot from the 1940s??
Description:  Except for the railfans with their cellphones and digital cameras, this could have easily been a shot from the first half of the 20th century!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:22:27 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B)
Views:  345   Comments: 1
..and it would have looked like this...
Title:  ..and it would have looked like this...
Description:  Black & white makes this shot look like old-time Scranton...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:23:48 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B) UP 4012(4-8-8-4)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
Pulling up the grade...
Title:  Pulling up the grade...
Description:  The 765 pulls out of Scranton and onto the Pocono Main in Dunmore, as the run of the Phoebe Snow begins!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:25:39 PM
Location:  Dunmore, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
Black smoke turns to white steam
Title:  Black smoke turns to white steam
Description:  As she finally starts picking up steam, 765 passes under the signal bridge and heads toward Gouldsboro
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:27:16 PM
Location:  Dunmore, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  189   Comments: 1
Gazing across Larsen Lake
Title:  Gazing across Larsen Lake
Description:  This beautiful setting makes for a great setting for steam in the Poconos
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:29:17 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  176   Comments: 1
Crossing the Larsen Lake Causeway
Title:  Crossing the Larsen Lake Causeway
Description:  The leaves are just beginning to lose that deep green of summer, and start to show a little red, a sign that Autumn is just around the corner
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:30:58 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Crossing the trestle at Larsen Lake
Title:  Crossing the trestle at Larsen Lake
Description:  765 Crosses the small trestle on the causeway, as the trees just start to send out little peeks of fall colors, as a sign of things to come..
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:39:41 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
Last shot at Larsen Lake
Title:  Last shot at Larsen Lake
Description:  This was a beautiful spot, and myself, and 2 friends were the only ones there! The station, just down the road, had hundreds of eager railfans...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:49:38 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
The Phoebe Snow rolls into town
Title:  The Phoebe Snow rolls into town
Description:  The 765 and her train roll into East Stroudsburg, and past the old control tower, to the thrill of the dozens of railfans waiting her arrival
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:51:41 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  230   Comments: 1
Smoking it up
Title:  Smoking it up
Description:  765 chugs past us in this pretty town in the Poconos
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:53:08 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
Under the Cutoff
Title:  Under the Cutoff
Description:  765 passes under the Lackawanna Cutoff, a main line that crossed the Delaware River and into New Jersey.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:54:59 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  286   Comments: 1
Another scene from days gone by
Title:  Another scene from days gone by
Description:  The 765 rolls under the old Lackawanna Cutoff on her way to wye at Portland, and then make her way back to Steamtown
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:56:29 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
Back in East Stroudsburg
Title:  Back in East Stroudsburg
Description:  Now heading north, the 765 passes under Interstate Route 80 on her way back to Scranton
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:58:10 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  214   Comments: 1
Rolling past CP Toby
Title:  Rolling past CP Toby
Description:  765 flys by the railfans at Tobyhanna Station
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:59:23 PM
Location:  Tobyhanna, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Back in Scranton, at the end of a very long day
Title:  Back in Scranton, at the end of a very long day
Description:  the 765 returns back to Scranton as she passes under the soon to be demolished Rt. 307 bridge
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 10:00:54 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
Sister Units NKP 765 and 759 at Steamtown 2015
Title:  Sister Units NKP 765 and 759 at Steamtown 2015
Description:  NKP 765 and 759 sit next to each other on display for many railfans' delight at Steamtown 2015.
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 9/13/2015 4:50:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Dan Glatiotis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
NKP 765 Puts on a Smoke and Steam Show in Scranton, PA During Steamtown 2015.
Title:  NKP 765 Puts on a Smoke and Steam Show in Scranton, PA During Steamtown 2015.
Description:  To many railfans' enjoyment, NKP 765 switches tracks under its own power to grab some coal during Steamtown 2015.
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 9/13/2015 4:50:10 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Dan Glatiotis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  112   Comments: 0
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 5:19:10 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Chris Wallace
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  236   Comments: 2
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 5:15:06 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Chris Wallace
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 5:12:24 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Chris Wallace
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
NKP 759
Title:  NKP 759
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 12/21/2015 6:54:09 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Richard Marchi
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  386   Comments: 2
NKP 765
Title:  NKP 765
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 12/21/2015 6:48:40 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Richard Marchi
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NKP 759(2-8-4)
Views:  336   Comments: 1
Sisters
Title:  Sisters
Description:  After about forty years, these two Nickel Plate Berkshires have been reunited at Steamtown. The 759 hasn't operated since the 1970s.
Photo Date:  9/6/2015  Upload Date: 9/13/2015 11:37:26 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  282   Comments: 1


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