Nickel Plate Road No. 770

Nickel Plate Road No. 770 is a class S-3 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive, built in 1949 by Lima to handle freight trains over the Nickel Plate Road's former Lake Erie & Western route between Frankfort, IN and Peoria, IL.
On December 28, 1954, it double headed a freight train with #776 when they both crashed in a head-on collision at Plate, NY, near Dunkirk.
After the crash No. 770 was retired from service and was put in storage until 1961 when it was sold for scrap.
==Trivia==
*As of today there's a caboose that was has the number 770 and was built for Nickel Plate Road just like the steam engine itself it's at the Indiana Transportation Museum.
*An audio recording of 770, and 776 exists, from the album "Ghost Train a sound panorama of the last Days of Steam".
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