Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 will conclude its visit to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad this weekend with a series of excursions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
It arrived on the CVSR during the first week of the month and has already pulled several trips that drew hundreds of passengers and spectators.
For many, the attraction of watching the big Berkshire-type locomotive in action is scenes like the one above of the 765 putting on a show for a photo runby.
This image was made on Sept. 14, 2014, at Boston Mill. That used to be where the photo runbys were staged.
Boston Mill has changed in the past two years with the CVSR station having been moved further south and a new visitors center having opened in a former apartment building.
If you’ve been following the story line this week of Ed Ribinskas’ series about steam at Boston Mill you’ve seen and read about those changes.
The 765 will be moving on soon although not before spending some time in Bellevue at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum later this month.
We probably can expect to see the 765 back in the Valley next year but those things are never guaranteed. Every time the 765 comes back you need to approach its visit as though it might be the last.
But, oh, the memories and photographs you’ll make that will always stay with you.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Tags: Boston Mill, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, Nickel Plate 765, Nickel Plate Road 765, Nickel Plate Road No. 765, NKP 765 on CVSR, Robert Farkas photography, steam in the valley
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