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Date: 02/04/25 12:00
Toss Back Tuesday - NKP Switchers
Author: refarkas

It is the summer of 1967 at the N&W yard in Brewster, Ohio where several stored ALCO switchers still are in full NKP paint.
Bob




Date: 02/04/25 14:12
Re: Toss Back Tuesday - NKP Switchers
Author: wabash2800

Brewster was such a neat place, with history, even in the 1980s, I remember riding in there on the 765 crew one time.  The first thing I saw was an ancient wood caboose on the ground apparently used as a shack.  That was W&LE territory! Brewster had been such a big terminal in W&LE and NKP days with a roundhouse, shops and yard that included one of those huge wooden, trestle, coaling docks.

The Wabash and its oligarchs owned the W&LE in the early 1900s as part of a route to get the Wabash to Pittsburgh. But that all fell through and the NKP eventually acquired it to boost its portfolio and transportation network handsomely. 

Victor Baird



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/04/25 14:22 by wabash2800.



Date: 02/07/25 11:31
Re: Toss Back Tuesday - NKP Switchers
Author: Notch76

Great catch

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