Re: The Very Last "Stump Dodger" To Operate In Regular Service!

Earl Wrote:
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> Well, according to my 1970 edition of Cinders &
> Smoke, #50 was sold to RC&BT on Feb 4, 1970. Andy
> Payne took a pic the same day showing it being
> loaded on a truck off the Durango turntable the
> same day.
>
> I visited Durango every year from 1967 to 1973.
> It was gone when I visited there in August, 1970.

Sometime in early Feb., 1970, I happened to be driving north out of Bakersfield
on old Hwy 99. I realized that I was behind a flatbed with a small locomotive on
it. Karl Koenig later told me that it was the 50 on her way to Roaring Camp.