Nickel Plate Road 757 is a S-2 class 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road".
[2] Nickel Plate Road 757 was built on August 18, 1944, by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio and it arrived on the Nickel Plate Road that same year in 1944.
[2] It was one of 30 class S-2 steam locomotives built for high-speed freight service on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, also known as the Nickel Plate Road (NKP).
[1][3] In 1960, it was retired from the NKP and was donated to the city of Bellevue, Ohio, who were unable to raise funds to build a display site for No.
757 was brought back to Bellevue, where it was cosmetically restored at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum.