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I have not been back in Ohio since 1965. That museum is one more stop to make on a long trip my husband and I make someday. I lived near the east-west mainline west of Cleveland and East of Lorain. As a young kid I missed the last of the steam, but DID see the first and second generation diesels on the NKP. We moved away from there after the shiny new GP35s showed up. They looked so much 'newer' than the high hood GP-9s. I hope to build up an O-scale GP-9 in NKP too someday. The amount of interchange and transfer traffic on the NKP was substancial. I remember counting how many differnt railroads cars were in any given train. There were a LOT of eastern roads in the late 50s and 60s, and everyone of them had cars show up on the NKP...... even plenty of western roads. In putting together a NKP 'train' you could have every car type and a huge variety of roads. Fun stuff! A lot of us O scalers collect and run 'trains', for the pleasure of watching them go by... not as many of us are operators doing switching and working way-freight operations Either way, the industrial operations served by the region wide NKP , and the huge interchange traffic with all the connecting roads, would make the NKP a steam or diesel era modelers delight.
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