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Nickel Plate 765 Returns Through North East

September 13, 2015 by LSRHS Webmaster

Nickel Plate 765 steaming by North East - Photo Credit: Jon Pippin

Nickel Plate 765 rolled through North East, PA again, this time heading west after running passenger excursions in New York. It’s hard to know when these steam engines will be going by, we usually get very short notice, but for those who were lucky enough to be in North East in the afternoon, this is […]

Filed Under: Historic Locomotives Tagged With: Nickel Plate, Steam engines

Nickel Plate 765 Rolls by North East

July 30, 2015 by LSRHS Webmaster

Nickel Plate 765 rolls by the Lake Shore Railway Museum

It isn’t often we get to see the sight of a fully restored steam engine at speed heading up a long line of railcars, but that’s exactly what happened this week as Nickel Plate Road #765 passed by the Lake Shore Railway Museum. It was on its way to Buffalo, New York for a series […]

Filed Under: Historic Locomotives Tagged With: Steam engines

Lake Shore Railway Museum as Seen From the Air – Updated

June 20, 2015 by LSRHS Webmaster

High definintion aerial drone footage of the Lake Shore Railway Museum by Ben Nagle

Aerial drone photography is fast becoming a huge activity, drones are now very capable platforms for small and light high definition video cameras. A recent magazine article highlighted the use of drones to get those formerly impossible shots of trains moving through mountains and valleys and over bridges opening new vistas to the railroad photographer. […]

Filed Under: Train photography

North East Appears in Classic Trains Magazine Nickel Plate Steam Feature

May 15, 2015 by LSRHS Webmaster

Berkshire 779 in North East, PA in March of 1957

Classic Trains magazine is just out with their Summer 2015 issue and there is an excellent article on the Nickel Plate Road, with lots of photos of the Berkshire 2-8-4s along Lake Erie taken in March of 1957. The photos show Dunkirk and Pomfret, New York, Conneaut, Ohio and several photos taken in North East, […]

Filed Under: Historic Locomotives

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