Nickle Plate No. 757 2-8-4. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasbourg, Pennsylvania. According to the Museum Web site, Lima built this S-2 class locomotive for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad in 1944. It stretches to 100 feet and 8 inches and weighs 440,000 pounds. [Click on images to enlarge them.]

Photographs © George P. Landow may be copied without written permission for any noncommercial use — for hobbies, education, and so on. If you have any additional information on the locomotives or rolling stock in these pictures, please feel free to send it along to me at george@landow.com; pictures are welcome, too. Click on images to enlarge them. — George P. Landow.

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