$24.95
Nickel Plate Steam 1957-1958
This book from Robert P. Olmsted features 75 color photos of Nickel Plate steam-powered freights taken during 1957 and 1958 at Calumet Yard in Chicago; Hammond, Indiana; Bellevue, Ohio; and a number of other locations in between. You’ll get plenty of steam action, lots of smoke, freight cars, semaphore signals, detail photos and beautiful midwestern vistas captured on Kodachrome more than 50 years ago! The S-2 Berkshires held down fast freight assignments on the NKP’s Chicago and Fort Wayne Divisions right up to the end of steam and these Lima 2-8-4s built during World War II made for one of the most exciting shows in the Midwest at the time.
BOOK REVIEW
This neat saddle-bound 48-page book is one of the most interesting that this reviewer has come across recently. It contains 68 absolutely excellent half-page size COLOR photos of NKP 2-8-4 Berkshires locomotives working in their last days on the line.
The photos are excellent in every regard and most are action rather than static. Author Olmstead, a master photographer and rail fan, really captured the essence of the last days of these famous locomotives.
The NKP “Berks” have a reputation as being among the finest steam engines of the Super Power era, and are almost identical to C&O’s K-4 Kanawha’s. And . . . how I wish someone had been able to capture the C&O’s engines the way Olmstead did the NKP!
This slim volume sells for only $24.95 and is printed on heavy coated stock. The photos are great in every respect. Highly recommended!
T.W. Dixon – Reviewer
Nickel Plate Steam 1957-1958
This book from Robert P. Olmsted features 75 color photos of Nickel Plate steam-powered freights taken during 1957 and 1958 at Calumet Yard in Chicago; Hammond, Indiana; Bellevue, Ohio; and a number of other locations in between. You’ll get plenty of steam action, lots of smoke, freight cars, semaphore signals, detail photos and beautiful midwestern vistas captured on Kodachrome more than 50 years ago! The S-2 Berkshires held down fast freight assignments on the NKP’s Chicago and Fort Wayne Divisions right up to the end of steam and these Lima 2-8-4s built during World War II made for one of the most exciting shows in the Midwest at the time.
BOOK REVIEW
This neat saddle-bound 48-page book is one of the most interesting that this reviewer has come across recently. It contains 68 absolutely excellent half-page size COLOR photos of NKP 2-8-4 Berkshires locomotives working in their last days on the line.
The photos are excellent in every regard and most are action rather than static. Author Olmstead, a master photographer and rail fan, really captured the essence of the last days of these famous locomotives.
The NKP “Berks” have a reputation as being among the finest steam engines of the Super Power era, and are almost identical to C&O’s K-4 Kanawha’s. And . . . how I wish someone had been able to capture the C&O’s engines the way Olmstead did the NKP!
This slim volume sells for only $24.95 and is printed on heavy coated stock. The photos are great in every respect. Highly recommended!
T.W. Dixon – Reviewer
