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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (The REPORTER) — Nickel Plate Express (NPX) has announced the availability of free community caboose rides, sponsored by Duke Energy. This special event will take place from 10 ...
Nickel Plate 779, the last steam locomotive built in Lima, was saved from the cutting torch by local interests, who parlayed an 1880 contract into a locomotive and returned 779 to its birthplace.
The Nickel Plate Road caboose. Courtesy of Ray and Karen Devite Xenia is well-known for a network of paved bike trails, so the DeVites also hope to entice bike enthusiasts with the future rentals.
Nickel Plate Trail ideas arise in meetings, via email and suggestion box The committee has met 30 times, and the suggestions have come at meetings, in emails and through a suggestion "box" on the ...
‘It’ll be exciting.’ The caboose would be displayed at the developing ‘Greater Vermilion Area Heritage Center’ near the 1882 Nickel Plate Depot at the former State Street School on SR 60.
The Nickel Plate Road 779 at Lima’s Lincoln Park has driving wheels that are almost six feet in diameter and its top speed was 80 mph. LIMA — “Every time we put on an open house, we still ...
Thanks to generous support from Duke Energy, the Nickel Plate Express is offering family rides on its Little Red Caboose this summer to the northern towns of Arcadia and Atlanta. Each Friday evening ...
The historic Monon caboose operated by Nickel Plate Express (NPX) will travel to Atlanta on Sunday, April 23 for a special $5 per person caboose ride as part of Atlanta’s Bicentennial celebration.
The Atlas caboose models the standard caboose design that the ICC used in the 1940s. The caboose is offered in two body styles, New Haven style with windows closer to the cupola, and Nickel Plate ...
The locomotive is moving west after more than 50 years at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. A freshly painted Nickel Plate Road caboose will travel with the engine, carrying lubricants ...
“They had a couple of bleachers, behind each bench, and a little caboose in the middle, behind home plate where they would announce the games. You had guys like Steve Smith who would put it into the ...