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Berkshires of the Nickel Plate Road by Kevin J. Holland NKP Hard Cover
Berkshires of the Nickel Plate Road by Kevin J. Holland 1998 Hard Cover
128 Pages
Hard Cover
Copyright 1998
Over 150 Black & White and Color Photos
Class-by-Class Rosters
Builder engineering records and diagrams
Berkshires of the Nickel Plate Road celebrates these legendary steam locomotives, and documents their fascinating story from the dawn of the Super-Power era through to dieselization and today's museum and excursion survivors.
In the capable hands of a Nickel Plate crew, the Berkshires carried the responsibility for the Road's post-depression solvency squarely on their shoulders. They did not disappoint, and made "Nickel Plate Road High Speed Service" the envy of the industry.
This book completes a trilogy examining three important aspects of the postwar operations of one of North America's genuinely outstanding railroads. One of the early plans for this volume was to include a photograph of every Nickel Plate Road and Wheeling & Lake Erie 2-8-4 ... a "Berkshire Mugbook" of sorts. Like many "early plans," this one proved too limiting and was discarded. The result would have been on-line scenes at many of the same locations and repetitive roster views - not necessarily a bad thing, but at odds with the goal of presenting as diverse a pictorial record of these locomotives as possible within the pages available, while at the same time documenting their development and evolution.
Contents
3Preface - Berkshire Country
7Woodard, Bernet, and the AMC
16S Class: Debut Of The 700s
30S-1 Class: Homecoming
46S-2 Class: More War Babies
64S-3 Class: End Of An Era
84S-4 Class: Wheeling's Berks
92Masters Of Their Craft
104Twilight ... and Survival
118Epilogue - Berkshires In Color
124 Bibliography
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