Engine 639
Nickel Plate Railroad
This locomotive is from the Nickel Plate Road, Number 639, Class H-6E, a 2-8-2 type. It was built in 1923 by the Lima Locomotive Works.
It is currently displayed on the north end of Miller Park in Bloomington, IL. The closest entrance is off of Wood St. a bit east of Wood and Morris Ave.
Locomotive Type: Steam
Do you need to pay an entrance fee to view this locomotive? : No
How accessible is this locomotive display?: Display is behind a fence, access is limited to viewing only.
New York, Chicago & St. Louis 639 New York, Chicago & St. Louis (better known as the Nickel Plate Road) 639 is a class H-6d 2-8-2. She is displayed in Miller Park in Bloomington, Illinois, along with a Southern Pacific caboose. The engine appears to be in reasonably good shape, but the aluminum frames on the cab windows look a little strange.
Miller Park is a public park in Bloomington, Illinois. It is in the southwest part of the city, on a large block south of Wood Street and east of Morris Avenue.
Miller Park’s train
The park features a pavilion, an artificial lake, a zoo, softball fields, two war memorials, and a preserved steam locomotive, coal car and caboose from the Nickel Plate Railroad which formerly served the area. The park also includes a mini golf course, sand volleyball courts and a playground. I have seen this Engine often, It is beautiful, but it could use more support from interested rail fans?
During the warm weather of summer an outdoor theater provides productions for local people. On July 4 the park hosts a fireworks display which is launched over the lake.
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Miller Park in Bloomington IL
Obama to destroy coal industry, and the railroad that hauls it.
You Tube Video
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=308558
The nation’s coal industry is in shock today with word that Barack Obama plans to put such severe penalties on coal-fired power plants that it will bankrupt them. A coalition of business leaders says such a move would jeopardize the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people who work in the coal industry.
Senator Obama’s plan for putting severe financial penalties on coal-fired power plants has been made public on a YouTube video which contains audio of comments he made in San Francisco in January 2008.
“What I’ve said is that we would put a cap-and-trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there,” the Democratic presidential candidate said. “I was the first to call for a hundred-percent auction on the cap-and-trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases that was emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted-down caps that are imposed every year.
“So if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can,” Obama concluded. “It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greeenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
A press release from the Western Business Roundtable is calling
Kick-ass article, good looking blog, added it to my favs!
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Nice steal on the top two photos of the 639 from NKPRR.net.
http://www.nkprr.net/639/
Tony Koestler is one of the major influences in Model Railroading, and Model Railroader Magazine. If I could get his and the hobbyist readership in general interestesed in the more well financed preservation of this significant peiece of physical history money might flow to the engine better maintainence and restoration? , Tony is currently modeling an NKP layout, so if I could bring attention to the locomotive, that might be more important than having snagged the picture without written permission. Maybe, just maybe, and being on a blog with over 3 million hits would be the way to do it.
to bad we couldnt put her orginal tender back on her. it is sitting in indiana waiting to be restored to running condition for nkp and you guys have 587 tender. nothing like a lima and baldwin half breed
It would be nice to switch the tenders, however, the NKP 587 and the ITM do benefit from it since it is a larger tender..