Re: Rio Grande stock car 5770 headed to Missouri

David Johnson Wrote:
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> Both the Katy and the MoPac had engine houses and
> shops in Sedalia, so it has been a railroad town
> and those places tend to respect and preserve
> equipment better. I've got most of the blacksmith
> equipment from an auction at the MoPac car shops
> in Sedalia.
>
> The 3' gauge Sedalia, Warsaw and Southern began in
> the Katy yard, near the roundhouse, and extended
> south for a mile along the Katy line before
> crossing it and heading south. So a 3' gauge
> stockcar in Sedalia might not be completely out of
> place, but the D&RGW stockcars are larger than the
> 22' long stockcars that the SW&S had. Like the
> rest of their narrow gauge cars, they were only 8
> ton cars.
> Dave

What?! there was a Narrow Gauge railroad in Sedalia? what sort of sorcery is this?!

hehe, just joking. Although I honestly didn't know that this railroad existed...that's what I get for trusting the TRAINS magazine map of all the Narrow Gauge railroads in the US to show EVERY one ever built (the map's from that "Narrow Gauge Fever" special issue they did quite a few years back now...Sonni was still working the C&TS if I recall my timing correctly. However, said magazine has earned a special place in my personal archives...)

Now that you mention it though, having a NG connection to a Katy railroad line gets my creative brain to firing...quick, to the virtual train simulator!!

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