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PA1 with unusual freight duty at Kimball, 1960 (Howard W. Ameling Photo) |
WINTER 2010 NKPM
The Winter 2010 Nickel Plate Road Magazine (hereafter referred to as the NKPM) should have arrived in your mailbox by now. If you did not receive your magazine, please let us know.
EX-NKP GP-35 910 NEEDS A BUYER!
Although it's probably too late to do anything now since the deadline for action is today, I'll mention this anyway in case someone can act very quickly. The NKPHTS was notified only a couple of days ago that Pan Am Railroad #212 - Ex-NKP GP-35 910 - is being put up for sale, and if not sold to an interested buyer, will be scrapped. Asking price is $125,000. Jim Olson of the Pan Am Railroad needs a commitment by today so as to make a decision as which way to go. If you know anyone with those kinds of funds - a museum or someone well-to-do with an interest in trains, please contact them ASAP! Please contact Matt Fruchey at mfruchey@cinci.rr.com with any information you may have. Thanks for your help!
LODI, OH DEPOT
We have just received a letter from Michael E.Trout, Chairman of the Lodi Railroad Museum. The Museum has plans to restore the Lodi depot but needs information to "create a Historical Structure Report (HSR) to show the grant providers the necessary information to warrant the $300,000 plus that we need to complete the restoration of the depot. We have the blue prints from 1909, showing its final construction on 1-31-1977. We desperately need help finding pictures, maps, stories, and anything else that will tell the story of the depot. If you have any information on the original W&LE, the NKP, N&W, or the modern W&LE, I would be ever so grateful for your input."
The Lodi depot is the only W&LE depot left between Brewster and Bellevue, Ohio. The (current) W&LE donated the depot and the land it sits on to the LRRM. The depot was severely damaged by a truck-train collision. Nearly 20 feet of the depot's waiting room was destroyed. It is their plan to rebuild the depot's waiting room as they restore the depot.
If you have anything that might help these folks, please send to:
Michael E.Trout
mtrout@neo.rr.com
49 Taylor Ave.
West Salem, OH 44287
or call: 419-853-4735
WEBSITE ADDITIONS
- "Along the Line" Books
The "Along the Line" Ohio and Indiana books are now available for viewing. The Ohio book was available last month and I inadvertently left the news out of the January eList Newsletter. I apologize for the omission.
- Ray Breyer Depot and Structure Photos
Last month Ray Breyer uploaded numerous photos of his depot and other structure models to the File Upload area of the website. I have since moved them to the Modeler's Workshop of the website so more modelers will have access to them. The address is:
- Bill Fisher Shared Photos
Bill Fisher has contributed numerous photos of industries served by the Nickel Plate and other miscellaneous photos to our Shared Pictures area. The address is:
- Fall 2009 General Membership Minutes
Minutes of the Fall 2009 General Membership meeting that took place at the Convention in Grand Island are now posted in the Members Area of the website. The minutes are available as a PDFD file:
- Winter 2010 ICP
The Winter 2010 Interchange Point is posted on the website as well, in case you lose your hard copy. It's available in both Word .doc and PDF file formats:
- Convention Photo Gallery
Photos from the 2009 Convention are posted on the website at:
http://nkphts.org/convention/2009pictures/
They are also available in a YouTube slide show at:
http://www.youtube.com/nickelplateroad
Thanks to Jim Semon for contributing many of the convention photos.
- File Uploads
Roger Esker uploaded photos of post-merger Huron in the File Upload area, and an anonymous donor uploaded photos of the Clarence, IL depot:
- Member Contact List
Two new entries have been added to the Member Contact List.
HOOSIER CHAPTER
The NKPHTS Hoosier Chapter made a trip Sunday to the NMRA Train Show at the fairgrounds in Noblesville, IN. Besides the train show, activities included visiting Warner Clark's NKP Proto-48 layout in Noblesville, meeting for dinner at the Nickel Plate Bar & Grill in Fishers, and visiting Jim Canter's large, under construction, Proto-48 layout in Beech Grove.
NKPHTS MOBILE WEBSITE ADDRESS
The NKPHTS website now has a mobile address - nkphts.mobi - that is maximized for viewing on mobile devices such a cell phones and PDA's. Simply enter the nkphts.mobi address in your mobile device web browser and our website will appear in a format that is a lot easier to read and navigate than our nkphts.org address.
For those in the Yahoo NKPHTS-members group, the mobile address that I posted on January 7 can still be used, but nkphts.mobi will obviously be easier to remember.
UPGRADES FOR THE 765
Kelly Lynch of the Ft. Wayne Railroad Historical Society brings us news that the 765 will be undergoing mechanical upgrades for the 2010 season. You can read about it at:
http://www.765.org/Second_Section/Entries/2009/12/17_Mechanical_Upgrades_for_the_2010_Season.html
DUPONT BRIDGE
There has been some discussion in the Yahoo forum about the Dupont Bridge. Vic Geckle sent me a postal address, which, if entered in the Google Maps search, will place you directly in the middle of the bridge. If you then choose the Satellite View and pull the little yellow gentleman in the upper left corner of the map to the pinpointed location in the map, you'll have a real-time view of the bridge - which can be moved to see different views. The address is:
1593 Ohio 634, Cloverdale, Ohio
"TALES FROM THE CAB"
Dan Meckstroth sends us news that Kalmbach Publishing Company has released a supplemental magazine called Tales From The Cab, a documentary of real life experiences of steam locomotive fireman and engineers. On page 14, Hal Lewis writes of his experiences in Lafayette, Indiana as "volunteer" locomotive fireman on the Nickel Plate in a G-7 2-8-0 during his college days at Purdue University. The magazine is published as a supplement to Classic Trains Magazine, numbered 618141.
DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that "new" brakemen were often sent to the supply headquarters for a supply of "red" oil for their red lanterns? (From the August 1977 Mad River and NKP Railroad Society Caboose Cable)
CONTRIBUTE TO THE eLIST NEWSLETTER
Contributions to this Newsletter are welcome! If you have something you would like to contribute to the monthly eList Newsletter, please be sure to get your copy to me no later than 3 days before the first day of the month in which you want your material to appear. Articles for this newsletter need to be short and concise. The material must be Nickel Plate related. If you have news of currently existing ex-NKP rolling stock or structures, please send that information to David Bender at nkp@att.net for inclusion in the NKPM "Along the Line" feature. If your ex-NKP news is time sensitive, and placing it in the next NKPM issue would be too late, I will include it in the Newsletter. If there is an abundance of material for a particular month and your material is not time sensitive, it will be placed in the next month's issue. If you have a lengthy article, please consider having it published in the NKPM. All material is subject to approval by the eList Newsletter Editor.
UPCOMING NKPHTS EVENTS
* April 30, 2010 - Spring ICP Ads Due
* April 30, 2010 - NKPHTS Archives Work Session, Cleveland State University
* May 1, 2010 - NKPHTS Spring Board Meeting, CSU
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That's all for this month. Until next time ... Respectfully yours,
John Fryar |
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