one of the first large scale users of the type (ultimately rostering 112 locomotives through its own purchases and the acquisition of nearly identical locomotives secondhand from the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad), the NKP became synonymous with the Berkshire locomotive type. One of this class, Nickel Plate Road no. 765, is preserved in operating condition and is operated occasionally from its New Haven, Indiana home. Nickel Plate Road no. 779 is preserved as a static display in Lincoln Park in Lima, Ohio. Many larger American railroads rostered Berkshires. The table lists data on the American locomotives as they were built. Berkshires in fiction In the motion picture The Polar Express, the "know-it-all" boy identifies the train's locomotive as a Baldwin 2-8-4 built in 1931, although the actual prototype for the film's locomotive was the Pere Marquette no. 1225, a Berkshire built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1941. In the Transformers television series, motion picture and toy line, the Decepticon triple changer Astrotrain is modeled on a JNR Class D62 2-8-4 locomotive which all of them did not survive the cutters torch and were ultimately scrapped in 1966 and none were saved for posperity. Locomon in the motion picture Digimon: Runaway Locomon is a 2-8-4 type locomotive. References