Wheeling & Lake Erie 2-8-4

Wheeling & Lake Erie 2-8-4

By Angela Cotey | November 9, 2017

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


On June 20, 1950, seven months after the Nickel Plate Road leased the 500-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie, W&LE Berkshire 6430 rolls 75 cars toward Toledo along the Sandusky River north of Fremont, Ohio. Soon NKP would renumber the Wheeling Berks into its 800 series.
Bob Lorenz photo

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