NKPHTS

The Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society


Preservation Home | Buildings and Structures | Diesel | Freight | Passenger | Steam

Click on the for a picture of the item. Picture will open in a new window.

Thanks very much to Roger Kirkpatrick for providing many additions and corrections to this list.

We still need information and/or confirmation on many cabooses. Those locations with a '?' after them or comments and/or questions shown in red lettering are in need of further information. If you can help us with the verification, please contact the Webmaster.
NUMBER TYPE BUILT NOTES & LOCATION
93 Wood Cupola 1901 Ex-LE&W 93, N&W 557393
141 Wood Cupola 1901 Ex-LE&W-N&W 557441
Ft. Wayne RR Historical Society
400-500 Series Cabooses were renumbered incrementally by the N&W as 557500-557600.
400 Steel Bay Window 1952 Ashburn, GA painted as SOU X557
401 Steel Bay Window 1955 Meredosia, IL

possibly to become a B&B?

404 Steel Bay Window 1955 Exmore, VA as ESHR 20
need address/location
405 Steel Bay Window 1955 Indiana Transportation Museum
Noblesville, IN.
406 Steel Bay Window 1955 Coshocton, OH
407 Steel Bay Window 1955 Grassy Creek Cabooses, Fancy Gap, VA
408 Steel Bay Window 1955 Melvindale, MI
411 Steel Bay Window 1955 Payne, Ohio
412 Steel Bay Window 1955 Western NY RR Historical Society, Hamburg, NY
413 Steel Bay Window 1956 Kermit, KY
Reported as "sold to Louisville Metals"/scrapped?
414 Steel Bay Window 1956 Fremont & Florence Hill RR Museum, Boaz, Ky
416 Steel Bay Window 1956 French Lick, IN
417 Steel Bay Window 1956 Cash-Acme Storage, Decatur, IL
419 Steel Bay Window 1956 Berwind Volunteer Fire Department, Berwind, WV
420 Steel Bay Window 1956 Ladson, SC
Reported for sale - has it sold or been moved?
421 Steel Bay Window 1956 City Park, Rt. 340, Berryville, VA/Community Center, Bluemont, VA
422 Steel Bay Window 1956 Johnson City, TN
Reported as "gone". If so, to where?
423 Steel Bay Window 1956 Mad River & NKP Museum,
Bellevue, OH
425 Steel Bay Window 1956 Private Owner, Ashtabula C-J RR, Jefferson, OH
426 Steel Bay Window 1960 Forest Youth Athletic Assoc., Forest, VA
427 Steel Bay Window 1960 Reported in Claypool Hill & Richlands, VA, 4 miles apart. Which is it?
429 Steel Bay Window 1960 Bellevue, OH
stored for owner, NKP Museum, Bellevue, OH, 1989. Where did it go?
430 Steel Bay Window 1960 Monticello Railway Museum
Monticello, IL
431 Steel Bay Window 1960 Cash-Acme Storage, Decatur, IL
432 Steel Bay Window 1960 Dillsboro, NC
433 Steel Bay Window 1960 SOU X777
Cayce, SC
436 Steel Bay Window 1960 Clinton, NC
441 Steel Bay Window 1960 Fulton, KY
442 Steel Bay Window 1960 Chatsworth Historical Society, Chatsworth, IL
443 Steel Bay Window 1960 Black Mountain, NC
444 Steel Bay Window 1960 Belfast Elem. School, Rosedale, VA
445 Steel Bay Window 1960 Valdosta, GA
446 Steel Bay Window 1960 Walkersville, MD
447 Steel Bay Window 1960 Glen Lyn, VA
448 Steel Bay Window 1960 Great Smokey Mountain RR., Dillsboro, NC
450 Steel Bay Window 1960 Honaker, VA or Virginia Beach, VA
Which is it?
451 Steel Bay Window 1962 Ft. Wayne RR Historical Society
452 Steel Bay Window 1962 Hubbleston Elementary School
Reston, VATrue?
454 Steel Bay Window 1962 Dennison Railroad Depot Museum
Is this NKP 480 painted up as 454?
455 Steel Bay Window 1962 Manhattan, IL.
456 Steel Bay Window 1962 Eastern Shore RR Museum,
Parksley, VA
457 Steel Bay Window 1962 Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway & Museum, Waterville, OH in 1998-1999
Where is it now?
458 Steel Bay Window 1962 Bedford, VA
459 Steel Bay Window 1962 Ramsey, IL
462 Steel Bay Window 1962 Coulwood, VA, lettered as
N&W 518037
463 Steel Bay Window 1962 Lettered as B&O C3994
Belpre, OH
465 Steel Bay Window 1962 Rockton, SC
466 Steel Bay Window 1962 Owned by Victor Geckle, Jr.
Located in Grand Rapids, Ohio
470 Steel Bay Window 1962 VTM, Roanoke, VA
Is this the #469 painted as 470?
471 Steel Bay Window 1962 Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum,
North Judson, IN
473 Steel Bay Window 1962 Painted PRR 2801
Eastern Shore RR Museum,
Parksley, VA
474 Steel Bay Window 1962 Great Smokey Mountains Railway, Dillsboro, NC
475 Steel Bay Window 1962 Toledo Lake Erie & Western Railroad & Museum, Inc.
Waterville, OH
476 Steel Bay Window 1962 Palmersville, TN
477 Steel Bay Window 1962 N&W Depot City Hall
War, VA
479 Steel Bay Window 1962 Beaver Valley Junction
Chapter of the NRHS

West Pittsburgh, PA
480 Steel Bay Window 1962 Still painted N&W 557580
Dennison Depot, Dennison, OH
481 Steel Bay Window 1962 Mt. Jackson, VA
482 Steel Bay Window 1962 SOU557582
Gilbert, SC
484 Steel Bay Window 1962 Spring City, TN
485 Steel Bay Window 1962 Red Jacket, WV
485 Steel Bay Window 1962 Red Jacket, WV
486 Steel Bay Window 1962 Gray Sales, Myrtle Beach, SC
488 Steel Bay Window 1962 Warrenton Branch Greenway Trail
Warrenton, VA
490 Steel Bay Window 1962 Pounding Mill, VA
491 Steel Bay Window 1962 Reportedly went to Greenville, PA. Now at Montcalm, WV?
492 Steel Bay Window 1962 Winchester, VA
493 Steel Bay Window 1962 Seaboard Air Line RR depot in Suffolk, VA.
494 Steel Bay Window 1962 Grassy Creek Cabooses, Fancy Gap, VA
496 Steel Bay Window 1962 CofG Depot, Forsyth, GA
lettered as CofG 557596
497 Steel Bay Window 1962 Linden Railroad Museum
Linden, IN
498 Steel Bay Window 1962 Fairview, NC
499 Steel Bay Window 1962 Athens,TN
4?? - C6?

Bowling Green, VA, Caroline Co. Park, for sale. Sold/gone to?
500 Steel Bay Window 1962 Central, SC
700-760 Series are Ex-W&LE 0200 Series Steel Cabooses Built in Ironton
(see http://www.nkphts.org/rosters/freight/caboose.html)
700-784 Series Cabooses were renumbered incrementally by the N&W as 557700-557784.
700 Steel Cupola 1948 Mad River & NKP Museum,
Bellevue, OH
702 Steel Cupola 1948 Appomattox, Va (Where in Appomattox?)
704 Steel Cupola 1949 Still painted N&W 557704
Atlanta RR Historical Society, Exmore, VA
705 Steel Cupola 1949 Greenville, PA
707 Steel Cupola 1949 AMTRAK Station/Historical Museum
Danville, VA
709 Steel Cupola 1949 Coeburn, Va
712 Steel Cupola 1949 Bryson City, NC
717 Steel Cupola 1949 W&LE 0217
Wandle House, Brewster, OH
719 Steel Cupola 1949 Swanton, OH
painted as Swanton 43558 (their zip code)
722 Steel Cupola 1949 W&LE  0222
Steam Railroad Museum Minerva, OH
725 Steel Cupola 1949 W&OD 503
Vienna, VA
726 Steel Cupola 1949 Wise, VA (Where in Wise?)
727 Steel Cupola 1949 Richlands, VA
728 Steel Cupola 1949 Nearest Town, Seagrove, NC on the southern border of Randolph County next to Montgomery County. Privately owned.
729 Steel Cupola 1949 Williamson, VA
732 Steel Cupola 1949 Hocking Valley Scenic Railroad
Nelsonville, OH
736 Steel Cupola 1949 Sweet Briar College, Amherst, VA
737 Steel Cupola 1949 Cape Charles Museum and Welcome Center,
Cape Charles, VA
740 Steel Cupola 1949 Wallace, NC
741 Steel Cupola 1949 Decatur, IL
743 Steel Cupola 1949 N&W 557743
Bulls Gap, TN
745 Steel Cupola 1949 Talent House School, Fairfax, VA
748 Steel Cupola 1949 W&OD 504
Station St., Herndon, VA
749 Steel Cupola 1949 Collierville, TN - Memphis Transportation Museum
painted SOUTHERN
751 Steel Cupola 1949 Conway, SC Station
753 Steel Cupola 1949 Reported in Corryton, TN, & Rogersville, TN. Which is correct?
754 Steel Cupola 1949 Private Owner, Hurt, VA
758 Steel Cupola 1949 Damascus, VA
759 Steel Cupola 1949 Whitewater Valley Railroad,
Connersville, IN
761 Steel Cupola 1953 Bluefield, WV
763 Steel Cupola 1953 Oneida, TN
764 Steel Cupola 1953 BSA Camp OYO, Friendship, OH
765 Steel Cupola 1953 Huntsville, AL Railroad Museum
766 Steel Cupola 1953 Southern X-2255, Branchville, SC
767 Steel Cupola 1953 Virginia State Forestry Service, Courtland, VA Address?
768 Steel Cupola 1953 Huntsville, TN
769 Steel Cupola 1953 Oakvale, WV
770 Steel Cupola 1953 Indiana Transportation Museum
Noblesville, IN.
771 Steel Cupola 1953 Was in Lion's Park, Brewster, OH, was sold and went to "?".
774 Steel Cupola 1954
Private Owner, Lafayette, IN (Where in Lafayette?)
775 Steel Cupola 1954 Stone Mountain Railroad, Stone Mountain, GA
776 Steel Cupola 1954 Moved to "somewhere in/near Mt. Airy, NC" - where exactly?
777 Steel Cupola 1954 Was 10 miles west of Medina at Chatham, OH, now at "?".
778 Steel Cupola 1954 Summerville, GA
as fake CofGA X17
780 Steel Cupola 1954 McDonald's, Elkton, VA
783 Steel Cupola 1954 Great Miami & Sciota Railway, Hamilton, OH
May now be in Jackson, OH, or not?
784 Steel Cupola 1954 Still painted N&W 557784
Iaeger, WV
863 Wood Cupola 1917 Ex-W&LE
Perkins, OH? Location in Perkins?
879 Wood Cupola 1921 Ex-W&LE
Private Owner, Bellevue, OH
883 Wood Cupola 1921 Ex-W&LE
Private Owner, Upper Sandusky, OH
W&LE 0857 Wood Cupola
on metal framework overlooking the Tuscarawas River
W&LE 0867 Wood Cupola 1920 Owned by Tom Diehl, Navarre, OH
W&LE 0899 Wood Cupola
Owned by Bill Fuehring, Bellevue, OH
W&LE 0911 Wood Cupola 1937 Mad River & NKP Museum,
Bellevue, OH
1000 Series Cabooses were renumbered incrementally by the N&W using 559 as the first 3 numbers and the last three numbers of the NKP number, e.g. NKP 1000 = N&W 559000.
1039 Wood Cupola 1881 Indiana Transportation Museum
Noblesville, IN. Rebuilt 1909
1047 Wood Cupola 1882 Rebuilt
Mad River & NKP Museum,
Bellevue, OH
1090 Wood Cupola 1888 Wanatah (Indiana) Historical Society
On the former MONON right of way near the grain elevator in Wanatah
1091 Wood Cupola 1888 Allen County Historical Society
Lima, OH
1092 Wood Cupola 1888 MR&LERR
Ghost Town, Findlay, OH
1111 Wood Cupola 1901 Storage Shed Peru, IL?
1141 Wood Cupola 1908 ?
1142 Wood 1908 Siders & Son Gravel, Disko, IN
1143 Wood Cupola 1908 AMERICAN CAR &FD.
St. Louis Museum of Transportation
1155 Wood Cupola 1909 Meadow Village, Avella, PA
1202 Wood Cupola 1924 Frankfort, IN

[ Back to the Top ]

© Copyright 1998-2008 The Nickel Plate Road® Historical & Technical Society, Inc.
The NKPHTS logo and the name "Nickel Plate Road" are registered trademarks of the NKPHTS, Inc.