Norwood & St. Lawrence 2-6-0 210 has been acquired by the St. Lawrence Power & Equipment Museum in Madrid, N.Y. The engine was previously part of the Steamtown National Historic Site collection but was recently deemed surplus, allowing it to return home to upstate New York.

Built by the American Locomotive Company in 1923, locomotive 210 pulled freight and mixed trains on the Norwood & St. Lawrence Railroad, a subsidiary of the St. Regis Paper Co. The engine was sold to a Watertown, N.Y., scrap yard in 1957, before being purchased by F. Nelson Blount in 1965 for his Steamtown collection in Vermont. Eventually, 210 and the rest of the Steamtown collection moved south to Scranton, Pa., in the late 1980s, becoming the property of the National Park Service. The engine has been stored in the Steamtown yard for years, mostly out of sight.

The locomotive will be cosmetically restored and displayed at the St. Lawrence Power & Equipment Museum. Since 2006, the museum has helped tell the story of the people and industry of New York’s North Country.

—Justin Franz