Random Historic Photo - Nickel Plate engine 587
posted: Nov. 05, 2026

This issue's Random Historic Photo is from 1960. It shows when the Nickel Plate engine 587 was on display in Broad Ripple Park. Years later a roof would be added to help protect the engine from the weather.
Visiting this day are my uncle Glen Hague, who worked at Hoster-Roberts Ford (see this issue's Historic ad), my sister Susan, my cousins Karen and Ed Hague, and sticking his head out of the window, my grandfather Girstle Hague, who was a mail carrier in Forest Hills. I was not there, having just been born!
Look at your old photos and see what history you can spot, then contact us to help preserve Broad Ripple history.
alan@broadripplegazette.com
image courtesy of Helen Dawson Hague collection
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