freights-meet-on-the-nickel-platehttps://www.trains.com/ctr/photos-videos/photo-of-the-day/freights-meet-on-the-nickel-plate/Freights meet on the Nickel Plate | Classic Trains MagazineClassic Trains magazine celebrates the 'golden years of railroading' including the North American railroad scene from the late 1920s to the late 1970s. Giant steam locomotives, colorful streamliners, great passenger trains, passenger terminals, timeworn railroad cabooses, recollections of railroaders and train-watchers.https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20181106.jpgInStockUSD1.001.00photo-of-the-dayphotos-videosarticleCTR2024-09-302024-11-0545818
In September 1954 at New Douglas, Ill., on the Nickel Plate Road’s old Clover Leaf line to St. Louis, 2-8-4 703 on westbound freight 49 holds the siding as the caboose of eastbound 98 speeds past on the main.
Philip R. Hastings photo