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pic 21: high iron co's ex-nickel plate berkshire #759

pic 22: nickel plate road #759

21) Caption reads:  High Iron Co's ex-Nickel Plate Berkshire #759 accelerates the Golden Spike Centennial Limited out of Kansas City's Union Terminal for the day's run to St Louis MO.  (Photo by Don Wood)

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22) Caption reads:  The exhaust barks as Berkshire 759 takes 18 cars up Gulf Summit near the top of the grade during the two day trip to Binghampton NY. This was the last excursion sponsored by the High Iron Co before the locomotive returned to Steamtown USA, Aug 17,1971.  (Photo by John Briggs)

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pic 23: nickel plate road #759

pic 24: nickel plate road #759

23) Caption reads:  A formal portrait of the Berkshire in Sep 1968, at Lebanon NJ, headquarters of the High Iron Co, sponsors of the steam-powered excursions with this 2-8-4. The Nickel Plate Road had a total of fifty-five of these Lima-built steam locomotives.  (Photo by Don Wood)

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24) Caption reads:  The High Iron Co takes its leased Berkshire back home to Steamtown USA over the rails of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, and past the station at Saratoga Springs NY. The Lebanon NJ-based High Iron Co ran excursions with the former Nickel Plate 2-8-4 for almost three years. 759 is now on display at Bellows Falls VT, home of Steamtown USA.  (Photo by Carl H Sturner)

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pic 25: nickel plate road #765

pic 26: nickel plate road #765

25) Caption reads:  NKP #765 shows it the way it was as she nears Watseka IL on May 7, 1980 with a Toledo, Peoria & Western freight train. #765 will now delight the Railfans of America with high speed excursion runs.  (Photo by Russ Porter)

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26) Caption reads:  New York, Chicago & St Louis' Berkshire (2-8-4), #765 was built by Lima in 1944 and has been restored for Excursion Service by The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. #765 is viewed at Ronceverte WV with a Passenger Special for the Greenbrier Hotel.  (Photo courtesy: Mary Jayne Rowe)

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pic 27: nickel plate road's #765, + pere marquette's #1225

pic 28: pere marquette #1225

27) Caption reads:  One of the special events of the 1991 NRHS Annual Convention was running side-by-side two Berkshire Type Locomotives (2-8-4) on CSX tracks between Huntington and St Albans WV. Pere Marquette's #1225 was built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1941, and Nickel Plate's #765 was built in 1944 by the same Builder.  (Photo courtesy: Jim Wrinn)

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28) Caption reads:  Pere Marquette Railway's steam locomotive #1225, built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1941 as a Class N-1 Berkshire (2-8-4), is viewed south bound at St Charles MI on Jul 15, 1989. Restoration of #1225 was begun in 1971 and completed in 1988, when she ran once again under her own power.  (Photo courtesy: Thomas F Bowers)

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pic 29: union pacific rr #844

pic 30: canadian pacific #2811

29) Caption reads:  Steam locomotive #844 was built in 1944 by The American Locomotive Company and was the last steam locomotive built for the Union Pacific. When new, #844 served in high-speed passenger service, later in freight service, and now #844 is an Ambassador Of Good Will for the Union Pacific RR.  (Photo courtesy: Ken Church)

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30) Caption reads:  Hudson-type locomotive on the turntable at Smiths Falls, Ontario, on an early Sep 1958 morning.  (Photo by Don Wood)

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