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Owner: Nickel Plate
Model:Alco 2-8-2Built As:WLE 6007 (2-8-2)
Serial Number:59726Order No:B-1493
Frame Number:27X32 cylinders, 63" driversBuilt:8/1918
Notes:ex-W&LE, Brooks-Alco, 8/1918, class M-1, USRA Heavy
Other locos with this serial:  WLE 6007(2-8-2) NKP 677(2-8-2)
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NKP 2-8-2 #677, Nickel Plate Road ex-W&LE
Title:  NKP 2-8-2 #677, Nickel Plate Road ex-W&LE
Description:  This is an example of an Alco-Brooks Mikado originally built for the Wheeling & Lake Erie as a class M-1 "heavy Mikado" in 8/1918 and acquired by the Nickel Plate in 1949. it also had the typical 63" drivers and 200 psi boiler pressure. It met is demise when sold for scrap in 10/1955 to the Luntz Iron & Steel Co. This is an August, 1970 reprint of a C. W. Burns photo.
Photo Date:  6/17/1951  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 5:46:46 AM
Location:  Zanesville, OH
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 677(2-8-2)
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