The Cincinnati Scenic Railway, operator of the LM&M Railroad and Ohio Rail Experience, recently acquired a former Nickel Plate Road express car.

The car, former NKP 8505, was built in 1947 and used on the railroad’s passenger trains between Buffalo and Chicago. It later ended up on the Norfolk & Western and Norfolk Southern. The car eventually ended up in Kansas. The car was purchased from American Heritage Railways and moved with assistance from the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad in Kansas and Case Towing in Lebanon, Ohio.

The car is presently painted for the N&W and numbered 410. Cincinnati Scenic plans on restoring it to its NKP appearance and using it as a power car. The car is part of an effort by Cincinnati Scenic to restore NKP equipment important to Ohio; the group is also working to restore NKP GP9 532. Both pieces of equipment will be used on Cincinnati Scenic’s Ohio Rail Experience excursion operation around Ohio and the LM&M out of Warren County.

—Railfan & Railroad Staff