0-6-0T #6766 at West Albany, NY

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0-6-0T #6766 at West Albany, NY

Steam Locomotive

Fireman's side view. For many years this tank engine served as the shop switcher/goat for the West Albany locomotive department! It moved steam engine of all sizes in and out of two erecting shops, each having 22 beys with pits and one large boiler shop along with a four-track inspection shed used for firing up repaired locomotives. Another choir of the tank engine was to move repaired dead engines to part of the locomotive department propriety for sand blasting and spray painting! The tank engine cab was very hot during the summer months but cozy warm during the cold of the winter months! It fit tightly with disabled engine tenders on the transfer table between the two erecting shops. It was also used to push flat cars with heavy engine repair parts into the boiler shop! With the complete closing of the locomotive shops during 1953-1954 the 0-6-0 went to the scrappers torch like the engines it had moved in and out of the shop buildings! Great photos capture the tank engine on the transfer table alone and pulling a rebuilt, freshly painted tender car!

Robert G. Spaugh

3-1/2x5-1/2 glossy photo

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0-6-0T

#6766

West Albany, NY