Color photos, 14, of steam locomotive NKP 759 at Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, June 1970.
Entry/Object ID
2014.066.0031
Description
Color photographs, fourteen, of steam locomotive NKP (Nickel Plate Road) 759 at Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, June 1970.
2-1/4" square mounted Ektachrome transparencies (see accession notes), dated Jun 70 on slide mount. Photographer not indicated, but attributed to Ted Conrad of Jersey City.
Once part of Ted Conrad Collection and some may have been published by the Hudson City Historical Society.
Various views of this very well known locomotive (see wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Plate_759). Nickel Plate Road 759 is an S-2 class 2-8-4 Berkshire fast freight steam locomotive preserved at Steamtown National Historic Site (and previously at Steamtown, U.S.A.)
It was built for and operated by the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (known as the Nickel Plate Road). It was not operated directly by the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad (or its successor, Erie Lackawanna), but it was the western connecting line for the D.L.& W. and the E.L. for routes to Chicago and St. Louis.
The visit to Hoboken was part of trips for railfans as part of the commemoration of the 1969 centennial of the last spike driven for the Transcontinental Railroad.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.066
Source or Donor
Brown, Doris Conrad
Acquisition Method
Loan
Credit Line
Gift of Doris Conrad Brown.
Made/Created
Artist
Conrad, Ted
Date made
1970
Place
Location
Hoboken
General Notes
Note
Original or Copy: Digital copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2014-08-14
