Builder: Vulcan Iron Works
Built: December 1930
Construction No.: 3972
Empty Weight: 82,000lbs
Weight on Drivers: 82,000lbs
Tractive Effort: 18,325lbs
Driver Diameter: 38in
Boiler Pressure: 150psi
Cylinders: 14x22"
Fuel: Coal

FCC 75 went into service in December of 1930 as #2 for the Flagg Coal Company of Avoca, PA where it was used as a switch engine. In 1935 it was sold to the Solvay Process Co. in Jamesville, NY and renumbered 75. There, it was used to push 4-wheel hopper cars from the steam shovel to the crusher at the rock quarry. In the early 1950s the Solvay Process Co. disbanded their railroad operation in favor of trucking and in 1953, #75 and twelve other locomotives were sold to Dr. Groman and his planned Rail City Museum in Sandy Pond, NY. There, the locomotive sat untouched until 1991 when John and Byron Gramling purchased it with the intent to restore it to operating condition. The father son duo painstakingly disassembled the locomotive, moved it to their shop in Ashley, Indiana and over the course of the following ten years returned it to service. In 2002 John and Byron loaned the locomotive to the Steam Railroading Institute where it is used for demonstrations and to power steam excursions.

For further information on Flagg Coal Company #75, please see:

http://www.flaggcoalcompany75.com/