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Owner: Nickel Plate
Model:Lima 2-8-4Built As:NKP 779 (2-8-4)
Serial Number:9380Order No:1209
Frame Number:25X34 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:5/1949
Notes:$226,315.00 FOB, last steam locomotive built by Lima. Display; Lima, OH
Other locos with this serial:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
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NKP 776
Title:  NKP 776
Description:  Date and location unknown.
Photo Date:  5/15/1950  Upload Date: 4/26/2012 12:10:36 AM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  3060   Comments: 5
NKP 779 New to the site. The last of the original NKP Berks.
Title:  NKP 779 New to the site. The last of the original NKP Berks.
Description:  Date approximate. Location unknown. After a 1949 merger Wheeling and Lake Erie Berks 6401-6432 were renumbered 801-832. Last steam loco built by Lima. Exhibited and run at Chicago Railroad Fair 1949. Stored at Conneaut 3/58. Donated to city of Lima 1963 for display in Lincoln Park.
Photo Date:  7/1/1955  Upload Date: 2/8/2012 7:09:29 PM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  3306   Comments: 5
NKP 779
Title:  NKP 779
Description:  Date unknown. Look at how the steam made shadows on the tender, pretty cool.
Photo Date:  5/15/1957  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 9:58:09 AM
Location:  Painesville, OH
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  931   Comments: 3
NKP 779
Title:  NKP 779
Description:  Date only listed as 1/58. In the last year of steam.
Photo Date:  1/1/1958  Upload Date: 3/25/2013 3:47:46 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  1218   Comments: 3
NKP 779
Title:  NKP 779
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/27/2012  Upload Date: 11/28/2012 8:14:39 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  2145   Comments: 4
NKP 779
Title:  NKP 779
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/27/2012  Upload Date: 11/28/2012 8:43:16 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  2012   Comments: 2
NKP 779
Title:  NKP 779
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/27/2012  Upload Date: 11/28/2012 8:56:33 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Wendy Crim
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Locomotives:  NKP 779(2-8-4)
Views:  744   Comments: 4

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