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Jeff Wilson's Collection
 
5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Nickel Plate
Model:Lima 2-8-4Built As:NKP 765 (2-8-4)
Serial Number:8673Order No:1184
Frame Number:25X34 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:8/1944
Notes:S-2, In Service, FWRHS
Other locos with this serial:  NKP 765(2-8-4) CO 2765(2-8-4)
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The NKP sisters, finally together!
Title:  The NKP sisters, finally together!
Description:  If only they were both under steam....
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:54:49 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  393   Comments: 2
Just shooting in B&W brings back the old days....
Title:  Just shooting in B&W brings back the old days....
Description:  Seeing this shot in black & white makes you think of days gone by at the Lackawanna Rail Yards
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:56:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  253   Comments: 2
765 pulls into the roundhouse
Title:  765 pulls into the roundhouse
Description:  About to take her spot on the turntable, our honorable visitor pulls her nose into the turntable yard
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:58:30 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
The NS911 and NKP 765
Title:  The NS911 and NKP 765
Description:  What a combination of power... Yesterday & today
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:02:28 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NS 911(SD60E) CP 2279(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
On the turntable
Title:  On the turntable
Description:  765 steams it up on the turntable at Steamtown, wowing the railfans of what is soon to come, the run of the Phoebe Snow!!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:17:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NS 911(SD60E) IC 790(2-8-0)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
From inside the Roundhouse
Title:  From inside the Roundhouse
Description:  A peek at 765 from inside her sister's stall in the roundhouse
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:18:39 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  190   Comments: 0
A shot from the 1940s??
Title:  A shot from the 1940s??
Description:  Except for the railfans with their cellphones and digital cameras, this could have easily been a shot from the first half of the 20th century!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:22:27 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B)
Views:  300   Comments: 1
..and it would have looked like this...
Title:  ..and it would have looked like this...
Description:  Black & white makes this shot look like old-time Scranton...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:23:48 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B) UP 4012(4-8-8-4)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
Pulling up the grade...
Title:  Pulling up the grade...
Description:  The 765 pulls out of Scranton and onto the Pocono Main in Dunmore, as the run of the Phoebe Snow begins!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:25:39 PM
Location:  Dunmore, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
Black smoke turns to white steam
Title:  Black smoke turns to white steam
Description:  As she finally starts picking up steam, 765 passes under the signal bridge and heads toward Gouldsboro
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:27:16 PM
Location:  Dunmore, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  175   Comments: 1
Gazing across Larsen Lake
Title:  Gazing across Larsen Lake
Description:  This beautiful setting makes for a great setting for steam in the Poconos
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:29:17 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
Crossing the Larsen Lake Causeway
Title:  Crossing the Larsen Lake Causeway
Description:  The leaves are just beginning to lose that deep green of summer, and start to show a little red, a sign that Autumn is just around the corner
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:30:58 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  190   Comments: 0
Crossing the trestle at Larsen Lake
Title:  Crossing the trestle at Larsen Lake
Description:  765 Crosses the small trestle on the causeway, as the trees just start to send out little peeks of fall colors, as a sign of things to come..
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:39:41 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
Last shot at Larsen Lake
Title:  Last shot at Larsen Lake
Description:  This was a beautiful spot, and myself, and 2 friends were the only ones there! The station, just down the road, had hundreds of eager railfans...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:49:38 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
The Phoebe Snow rolls into town
Title:  The Phoebe Snow rolls into town
Description:  The 765 and her train roll into East Stroudsburg, and past the old control tower, to the thrill of the dozens of railfans waiting her arrival
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:51:41 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  215   Comments: 1
Smoking it up
Title:  Smoking it up
Description:  765 chugs past us in this pretty town in the Poconos
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:53:08 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  239   Comments: 1
Under the Cutoff
Title:  Under the Cutoff
Description:  765 passes under the Lackawanna Cutoff, a main line that crossed the Delaware River and into New Jersey.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:54:59 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  273   Comments: 1
Another scene from days gone by
Title:  Another scene from days gone by
Description:  The 765 rolls under the old Lackawanna Cutoff on her way to wye at Portland, and then make her way back to Steamtown
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:56:29 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Back in East Stroudsburg
Title:  Back in East Stroudsburg
Description:  Now heading north, the 765 passes under Interstate Route 80 on her way back to Scranton
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:58:10 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  201   Comments: 1
Rolling past CP Toby
Title:  Rolling past CP Toby
Description:  765 flys by the railfans at Tobyhanna Station
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:59:23 PM
Location:  Tobyhanna, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
Back in Scranton, at the end of a very long day
Title:  Back in Scranton, at the end of a very long day
Description:  the 765 returns back to Scranton as she passes under the soon to be demolished Rt. 307 bridge
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 10:00:54 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  183   Comments: 0


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