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NKP #765 Steams Across Illinois July 2011

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Posted by carknocker1 on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 1:54 PM

I would have loved to have seen this , but  a move last year made it impossible , I always enjoyed chasing through Kentland !!!!!!!!!

Great photos !!!!!!!!!

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NKP #765 Steams Across Illinois July 2011
Posted by kschmidt on Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:31 PM

One Monday July 25, 2011 the Nickel Plate #765 was homeward bound.  It had pulled an excursion from Rock Island to Bureau, IL on Friday July 22nd and been on display in Rock Island for the weekend.  On Sunday evening the locomotive and 4 passenger cars left Rock Island and steamed up to Peoria, IL.  

On Monday morning it was rumored that #765 was going to be pulling a freight train on the TP&W as it headed home.  However due to logistics of switching the train it was just the locomotive and 4 cars.  

Here are some shots from the trip between Peoria, IL and the Indiana state line 

 

The fog broke briefly on the #765

There's tracks in there somewhere, I Hope !!

Crossing the diamond with the CN at Gilman and the Gilman Depot

After some 10mph running NKP #765 gains speed entering Kentland, IN

Keith Schmidt KC9LHK You don’t bring nothin with you here and you can’t nothin back, I ain’t never seen a hearse with a luggage rack. George Strait Check out Flickr Train Photo Page 

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