This Alco-Brooks 2-8-2 Mikado built for the Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St Louis) in August of 1917 now sits as scrap in the New Haven, IN, yard, complete with its name crossed out. Eventually it would be sold as scrap to M.S. Kaplan Co on January 31, 1962.

The NKP Historical magazine has an article about NKP 965 in the September 1968 issue. New York, Chicago & St. Louis (NKP) (ex W&LE) 4-8-4s 6402 & 6410 Berkshires 802 and 810 (ex-W&LE 6402, 6410) were sold to McLouth Steel in Trenton MI …

No. 965 of this group was originally No. 524, but was renumbered in 1955 to make room for an Electro-Motive GP7 diesel unit. With 63-inch drivers and 24x32-inch cylinders, these locomotives had 200 p.s.i. of boiler pressure. They weighed 291,750 …

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NKP 2-8-2 #965 - Nickel Plate Road This Alco-Brooks 2-8-2 Mikado built for the Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St Louis) in August of 1917 now sits as scrap in the New Haven, IN, yard, complete with its name crossed out.

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Nickel Plate Photographic Roster. Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : NKP 872: blt 6/62, to NW 2872, ret 10/80

Calumet Yard, on Chicago's south side, was the home of the last roundhouse built in the United States, completed in 1952. The modern yard and engine terminal was built to replace older facilities at Stony Island.