The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (reporting mark NKP), abbreviated NYC&St.L, is a railroad that operates in the mid-central United States.
Commonly referred to as the Nickel Plate Road, the railroad serves a large area, including trackage in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Its primary connections include Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Toledo.The Nickel Plate Railroad, the name by which it is generally known, is constructed in 1881 along the South Shore of the Great Lakes connecting Buffalo and Chicago to compete with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.
In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road and several other midwestern carriers are merged into the larger Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
The goal of the N&W expansion is to form a more competitive and successful system, serving 14 states and the Canadian province of Ontario on more than 7,000 miles (11,000 km) of railroad.
The profitable N&W is itself combined with the Southern Railway, another profitable carrier, to form Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS) in 1982.At the end of 1960, NKP operates 2170 miles of road on 4009 miles of track, not including the 25 miles of Lorain & West Virginia.
That year it reports 9758 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 41 million passenger-miles.
