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Title	HEART OF THE NICKEL PLATE : BELLEVUE, OHIO 1955
Accession No	00963409
Authors	Koester, T
Journal Title	Trains Magazine Vol. 63 No. 9
Corp. Authors / Publisher	Kalmbach Publishing Company
Publication Date	20030900
Description	p. 26-33; Figures(2); Photos(6)
Languages	English
Abstract	This article presents a look at Bellevue, Ohio, the center of the Nickel Plate Road operations as recently as 1955. Describes the evolution from a single main line stretching from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago to a hub with lines radiating to every corner of the system from the location in northwestern Ohio. Eastward perishables raced to Bellevue from St. Louis and Peoria, with hotshots coming in from Chicago. The Ft. Wayne and Chicago divisions were to the west. The article shows a schematic of the Bellevue yard in 1955 and the eastbound hotshots routes at about the same time. The Bellevue Yard handled some 50 arriving and departing second- and third-class freights, along with six passenger trains every 24 hours. Even late in the steam era, reefers were still using ice, and Bellevue was a convenient spot to replenish supplies for eastbound trains with perishables.
TRT Terms	Freight trains ; History ; Railroad yards ; Railroads
Identifier Terms	Nickel Plate Road
Subject Areas	R19 HISTORY
Availability	Kalmbach Publishing Company Find a library where document is available Order Document: http://worldcat.org/oclc/6163876 Available from UC Berkeley Transportation Library through interlibrary loan or document delivery Order Document: http://library.its.berkeley.edu
Document Source	UC Berkeley Transportation Library Source Data: BTRIS Record Number 3407
TRIS Files	RRIS; BTRIS
Database	TRIS Online

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