"Heading To The Shop" Ex-NY Central No. 6721

ParisHill · **Joined:** Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:42 pm **Posts:** 216

Severely damaged in July 2015 by a runaway hopper off the New York, Susquehanna & Western in Utica, NY, ex-NY Central No. 6721, a 0-6-0, was on the move this morning. Its tender will be trucked to Dunkirk, NY for work while the locomotive itself will be worked-on in Utica.

This will be a cosmetic restoration.

The locomotive is owned by the Utica & Mohawk Valley NRHS Chapter. It's been on display at Utica's Union Station approx 20 years.

Here's a short video featuring highlights from this morning's effort:

https://youtu.be/PrAnXzwsnyM

Also, a few photos:

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:52 am

Thank you for updating this story. In my opinion, this was one of the saddest, deliberate destructions of a steam locomotive in recent history. I'm hoping the local repair shop has a clue as how to do this without making something bad even worse.

NS 3322 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:21 pm

Richard Glueck wrote:

Thank you for updating this story. In my opinion, this was one of the saddest, deliberate destructions off a steam locomotive in recent history.

While the railcar was deliberately "set free" by the 13 year old (who was never charged), I do not believe he was deliberately trying to damage the steam locomotive. However, his actions could have injured or killed a lot of people at the station. The steam locomotive potentially saved a lot of lives as it absorbed a lot of the force from the runaway hopper. Had the locomotive been absent, the hopper would have probably gone straight thru the pedestrian bridge support column and caused a lot more damage and injuries.

An article from 2015 for those unfamiliar of what occurred.
https://www.pressconnects.com/story/new ... /30986035/

Surveillance video of the crash (in the beginning).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEOipH3WfY

As for the runaway hopper car (ELTX 2131), it appears to be back in service.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4691091

Dave Stephenson · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:52 pm

And it still rolls after being bashed like that. Amazing!!!

Trainkid456 · **Joined:** Thu May 05, 2016 6:30 pm **Posts:** 240

This is one of the many reasons why I regularly lecture my teachers and classmates about railroad safety. I'm glad the engine is finally being cosmetically restored. Wasn't there another steam locomotive that was damaged by a similar scenario in Indiana? I may have it confused with this one.

Thomas

Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

PMC · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm **Posts:** 2876

From AOTT facebook:

Steamguy73 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 3:15 pm **Posts:** 635

PMC wrote:

From AOTT facebook:

Love how the tender looks! But is it me or is that tender noticeably leaning forward?

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:57 pm

Steamguy73 wrote:

PMC wrote:

From AOTT facebook:

Love how the tender looks! But is it me or is that tender noticeably leaning forward?

It was on an unloading ramp. The lettering is too high on it, should be centered, but at least it's fixed.

NYCRRson · **Joined:** Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:25 pm **Posts:** 512

In the last photo the tender (on level track) "seems" to tilt a little lower towards the locomotive end, but I think that might be a parallax (aka keystone distortion) effect from the camera angle.

Agree that the tender lettering is "too high", should be centered between the top and bottom of tender sides, also seems a little too far to the left.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

NYCRRson wrote:

Agree that the tender lettering is "too high", should be centered between the top and bottom of tender sides, also seems a little too far to the left.

This reminds me of the number 401 on the tender of the Southern 2-8-0 at the Monticello Railway Museum. It too is too high, and it was explained to me that the paint crew did it that way so that they didn't have to paint the numbers over rivets.

Les

misterwandle · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:08 am **Posts:** 58

"In the last photo the tender (on level track) "seems" to tilt a little lower towards the locomotive end, but I think that might be a parallax (aka keystone distortion) effect from the camera angle."

You mean "perspective," not parallax. Be safe

John B.

Chris Webster · **Joined:** Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:45 am **Posts:** 1087

Photos of the repaired pilot beam have been posted on the U&MV Chapter's Facebook Page:
The pilot beam for Utica's Steam Engine, New York Central switcher 6721 is looking great!

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:51 pm

Thank gosh it's been repaired. I hope the quality of the repairs is enough to last into the next century, at least. She's carries a great weight in terms of NYC history.

PMC · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm **Posts:** 2876

"NYC B-11k 6721 has been repainted, rebuilt, and reunited with its tender," the work was reportedly done by Scott Symans, owner of Viscose #6. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... ater&ifg=1