Your Hometown Newspaper partners with Nickel Plate Express
AJ Witham Sign Production of Arcadia is Nickel Plate Express’s first choice for installing car branding, and with good reason. (Photo provided by Nickel Plate Express)
By STU CLAMPITT
On Saturday, June 11, friends of The Reporter were among the first to embark on the Nickel Plate Express from the newly renovated Hobbs Station in Forest Park. Some were also the first to ride on the newly renamed Reporter Lounge Car.
Tens of thousands of people ride the Nickel Plate Express each year. Now some of them can choose to ride an historic 1950s-era Santa Fe Railway Hi-Level passenger car bearing the name of your newspaper.
That’s right: The Reporter has partnered with the Nickel Plate Express to name one of the dining cars after Hamilton County’s Hometown Newspaper, and we are both proud of this opportunity and humbled by the outpouring of positive feedback we have already gotten from the Saturday afternoon ride.
Over 130 people shared a champagne toast – with a non-champagne toast for younger riders – to celebrate this partnership. This was only possible because of our advertisers, our growing list of community partners, our supporters in the public and private sectors, and most importantly because of you, our many readers.
You will see many of our riders in today’s edition of The Reporter, plus a few more online. There were several camera-shy individuals who managed to dodge both our photographers (we are looking at you, Mrs. P), but your absence from these pages does not in any way mean you are absent from our gratitude.
The Reporter Lounge Car is not ours; it is yours, Hamilton County! Take a ride on the Nickel Plate Express and, if you are so inclined, send us a few photos to run in YOUR newspaper. We would love to see you on the rails.
Owners (from left) Isaac Taylor, Stu Clampitt, Paul Poteet and Ray Adler bask in the glow of their newly installed sign on The Reporter Lounge Car. Well, Paul just points like he knew this was coming all along. Maybe he had the inside track on our big reveal? (Reporter photo by Kent Graham)
Reporter photos by JohnGeiger.com
Reporter photos by Kent Graham
Thank you, Hamilton County Reporter, for a wonderful afternoon train ride!
What a pleasurable “step back in time”! My husband and I appreciated this opportunity to enjoy our beloved Hamilton County from a different perspective.
Thank you!