Class D / F-5 (Locobase 11129)

Data from T, St L & W's 1911 and 1924 locomotive diagram books supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works number and road numbers for the original TStL&KC delivery did not line up, as the following table shows:

Works number KC road Western road Month/Year produced

1840 24 24 September 1887

1841 25 23 "

1842 26 22 "

1935 27

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Class F-6 (Locobase 6715)

Data from TStL&W 1911 Locomotive Diagram supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also DeGolyer, Volume 23, p. 245.

The locomotives' original tenders carried 4,000 US gallons (15,140 litres) of water and weighed 80,000 lb (36,287 kg) fully loaded.

When the Nickel Plate took over the TSt&W in June 1923, they renumbered the class 820-825 and operated them for almost six years longer before retiring the class in January 1929.

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Class H (Locobase 2626)

Data from Catalogue Descriptive of Simple and Compound Locomotives built by Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, NY (Buffalo, NY: Matthew-Northrup Company, 1899); comment on the nickname in American Railroad Journal, Volume 55 (1 July 1882), p. 470.

Builder info from B.Rumary, 25 Kingscombe, Gurney Slade, Radstock, BA3 4TH, ENGLAND and Jeremy Lambert as supplied by Allen Stanley in March 2004.

Works numbers were 1629-1633 in March 1890. Rumary-Lambert credit the class with 19" cylinders, which they may have received some time after their initial delivery.

ARJ underscored the NKP's claim to quality construction with this 1882 note: "The new New York, Chicago & St Louis is called the "nickel plate" because everything about it is so gorgeously fine. It is reported that an employe [sic] was discharged lately because he failed to sandpaper one of the ties to suit the fastidious tastes of the contractor."

Low-drivered light Mogul for the Nickel Plate, as the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis was known.

The class was renumbered in 1910 with retirements beginning only a few years later in 1913 (2). Two more were withdrawn in 1914 and 219 was scrapped in June 1916.