Nickel Plate Road (NKP) No. 170 is a Class L1a type of 4-6-4 "Hudson" steam locomotive. It was built in 1927 by the American Locomotive Company for the Nickel Plate Road. This special Hudson was used to haul heavy passenger trains on the Nickel Plate Road as …

In 1929. the NKP obtained four more Hudsons (designated Class L-1b with road numbers 174 through 177), this time from the Lima Locomotive Works. These eight locomotives were the pride of the NKP's passenger service and saw 16 years of handling main line passenger trains between Buffalo, NY and Chicago, IL until displaced by diesels in the 1950s.

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Commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road", the railroad served parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Its primary connections occurred in Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Toledo.

NKP 4-6-4 Hudson #170 was built by Alco-Brooks in March of 1927. Specs - serial #67211, class L-1a, 73" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, 25x26" cylinders, engine weight of 316,500 lb, tractive effort of 40,681 lb, smoke deflectors, roller bearing eng. truck & bed.

The Nickel Plate Road Class L1 was a class of 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotives built for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (or better known as Nickel Plate Road). The Class L1 was divided into three subclasses, those being L1, L1-a and L1-b.

The L-1 in its final form was an amalgamation of the NKP’s reliable H-6 Mikado and K-1 Pacific with the latest appliances and large boiler theoretically capable of producing more steam than the locomotives could consume. Every aspect of the engine was tuned for …

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Nickel Plate Photographic Roster. Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : NKP 1 : S2 69924: 1: 250890

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