Steam & Excursion > NKP 759 Almost Fifty Years Ago

NKP 759 leads the westbound Golden Spike Centennial Limited through Peru, IN.

Bob Wilcox
Charlottesville, VA
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Very nice photo of a great locomotive and all kinds of quality passenger equipment, many borrowed from the major railroads I do believe.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

Didn't happen to snag a picture of that Wabash boxcar did you?

Sorry, but no.

Bob Wilcox
Charlottesville, VA
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Good looking action photo.
Bob

Great photo and great memories. Thanks for sharing, Ross Rowland

The loco’s striping pattern, except for the blue & the ‘spikes’ , is patterned after  the RF&P 600’s  paint scheme ... on locos redirected from the NKP order,  during WW2 & the WPB orders , to help bolster the power shortage on the Richmond-Washington Route,....

Wes Camp
 


 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/13/18 15:30 by wcamp1472.

Fourty-four years later, (2012) 759's younger sister charges out of the yard at Peru.

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My grandfather rode the entire trip. Here is one of his scanned slides from a photo runby (can't recall the location). Some of my friends and family hopped on board during a brief stop at 30th St. Station and rode the last lap behind a blue GG-1 to Penn Station. Photo by Charles Rowland Sr.

Doug Rowland
Philadelphia, PA

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Great photo Bob! The Golden Spike Centennial Limited causes me heartache to this day because I missed the whole thing. Uncle Sam had provided me with a 14 month all expense paid trip to southeast Asia during the whole trip!

Jim Kreider



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Jimeng...
Thank you for your service.

i went into the USAF in April 1960,  attended digital radar tech school, Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Miss.
i took advantage of early-out offer ( Congress looking at budget cuts), in Jan 1964...

Poked around in the electronics industry, met Ross in ‘66.... rest is history.

I am so glad that I have served and got out before Southeast Asia heated up.  
Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin Resoution came about later in ‘64...
The Senate agreed ( 99-1)* to let the Presidents decide when to take us into undeclared Wars.
I, luckily, dodged that bullet

Again, thank you and the thousands of other Americans who served during that terrible period.
I’ve had it, with these “made-up wars”....

W.

*Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, alone, voted against it:  account war powers are granted to the Senate, in the Constitution..
Giving away that power should have taken the passing of a Constitutional Amendment, not a senate vote...
 
Morse objected to having given away that vital process..
Morse is my hero.

Thank you Wes, and thank you, both for your service and being one of those who made 759 run.

Jim Kreider

765 with the heritage units was the west bound move to St. Louis.  At the conclusion of the Sunday employee trips, the heritage units were needed and they would gone within one hour of the last passenger getting off.  The 765 deadheaded home on its own power.

Here’s a link to a video of the return of NKP 765 to Fort Wayne. The Wabash whistle makes quite a statement. Pardon the quality.

https://youtu.be/8HhMlygP3WI

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