Nickel Plate Road crewmen enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of the new away-from-home crew building at NKP’s Calumet Yard in 1951. NKP photo
Nickel Plate’s Calumet cafeteria
By Angela Cotey | April 7, 2023
| Last updated on August 7, 2025
I cannot tell you how many meals I ate here in the summer of 1978 (mostly at night) while on strike duty. The food was remarkably decent, plentiful and no money exchanged hands. It was also right in the middle of yard operations.