Steam & Excursion > NKP 765 St. Louis Trip

In September I traveled with NKP 765 from Fort Wayne to St. Louis, where it performed four NS employee trips in the St. Charles area over a weekend. The dead-head move to St. Louis and the employee trips were accompanied by two diesels in Wabash and Illinois Terminal schemes.

Our trip back to Fort Wayne was pure steam!

“NKP 765 on the Norfolk Southern” is the first chapter of the new DVD “Big Steam on the Mainline”. A preview is available on my website.


Thanks, Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com

1 - from its home in suburban New Haven, IN, 765 starts to back its long train onto the NS main

2 - after it cleared South Webster Road crossing, the train is about to move to a Fort Wayne yard for the night

3 - 1072 and 1070 have been added to the consist for the trip to St. Louis

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4 - at Decatur, IL

5 - waiting for 765 to pull the employee special across the big Missouri River Bridge - anyone we know here?

6 - heading home over the 1907 Wabash-built concrete arched bridge over Lake Decatur

Thanks, Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com

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