Nickel Plate Road 757 is a S-2 class 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built in August 1944 by the Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) in Lima, Ohio for the Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road".
Nickel Plate Road 757 was built on August 18, 1944, by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio and it arrived on the Nickel Plate Road that same year in 1944.
It was one of 30 class S-2 steam locomotives built for high-speed freight service on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, also known as the Nickel Plate Road (NKP).
The locomotive made its last run in revenue service on June 15, 1958 and was retired from the NKP. In 1960, it was donated to the city of Bellevue, Ohio, who were unable to raise funds to build a display site for No. 757 and instead sent the locomotive to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania during 1966.
In 2017, it was announced that No. 757 would be returning home to Bellevue, Ohio were it would receive a cosmetic restoration by the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum and placed on display at their property.
On February 11, 2019, No. 757 left the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and travel over 500 miles to its new home. It arrived at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum's property on February 14 and is now being cosmetically restored by museum, it will eventually be placed on station display when restoration is finished.
In September 2021, No. 757 was reunited with its operational sister locomotive No. 765 for the Berkshires in Bellevue event.