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The name Nickel Plate came about back when plating was new-ish, and was meant to confer some sense of high quality, just the same as "turbo-charged taste" would be used to confer some sense of "powerful" today. In neither case would nickel or as turbo charger be expected in any literal sense. I model the Nickel Plate, look for information at the Yahoo Nickel Plate egroup, or look for John Rehor's book "The Nickel Plate Story". It's surely a Bible on the subject. Anyway, a newspaper (in Norwalk, Ohio??) came up with the "nickel plated railroad" moniker back in the early 1880's, the name stuck, but was not made official until much later. <br />The Nickel Plate travelled through Cleveland to Buffalo, and had a big shop in Conneaut, Oh. In 1949 they leased the Wheeling & Lake Erie, which went from N. Ohio down to - Wheeling (well, except for the last couple miles, too long for here). So, N. Ohio to Buffalo and Wheeling also had a big presence, the NKP had headquarters in the Cleveland Terminal Tower. <br />Dean
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