Nickel Plate Road No. 358

Nickel Plate Road No. 358 is an EMD SD9 diesel locomotive built by the Electro-Motive Division for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (Or better known as the "Nickel Plate Road") in 1957.
== History ==
=== Construction and Delivery ===
Nickel Plate Road No. 358 was constructed in 1957 by the Electro-Motive Division, and it was delivered to the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (Or better known as the "Nickel Plate Road") that same year.
=== Revenue Service ===
It was passed onto the Norfolk and Western Railway when the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway/Nickel Plate Road was absorbed by the Norfolk and Western Railway where it was renumbered as N&W 2358. After the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway merged into Norfolk Southern Railway, No. 358 was renumbered as NS 57.
=== Retirement and Restoration ===
Norfolk Southern retired the locomotive and donated it to the Fort Wayne Railroad in 2010.
It would eventually undergo a two year restoration to operational condition back to its Nickel Plate Road appearance, after it was restored it was pulled out of the shops it was restored at by a locomotive operated and owned by Progress Rail.
As of today, Nickel Plate Road No. 358 is back in operational condition in its Nickel Plate Road form.
== External links ==
* Progress Rail Helps Transform Historic Locomotive – Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society
Category:Diesel-electric locomotives
Category:Norfolk Southern locomotives
Category:Preserved diesel locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Norfolk and Western locomotives
Category:EMD SD9
Category:American locomotives
Category:Diesel locomotives
Category:Norfolk Southern Locomotives
Category:Built in 1957
Category:Restored locomotives
Category:4 foot 8 1⁄2 inch gauge
Category:United States
Category:American diesel locomotives
Category:Preserved locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Category:Operational Locomotives
Category:Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society
Category:N&W Locomotives
Category:Nickel Plate Road locomotives
Category:EMD locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives
Category:C-C locomotives