FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Steel Dynamics, Inc. has donated $3,000 to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc. for Project 358, an effort to restore the society's 1950s diesel locomotive, Nickel Plate Road No. 358. The funds will be allocated toward e...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/07/27-fort-wayne-sd9
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Should look good prancing around in it's original nkp paint scheme.
It should look a little bit like this beauty at the Mad River & NKP Museum:
http://www.madrivermuseum.org/gallery/pages/page_19.html
Not an SD9, but a "brother in arms" nonetheless!
NKP freight diesels looked better in the original scheme with lots of end stripes plus the side stripes. Their only shortcoming was that they were equipped with the most godawful sounding horns that I've ever heard.
Still a great paint job !! Wonder if she has the same horns?
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