Re: WW&FRy # 9 on the turntable.

KevinM Wrote:
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> narrowgaugejoe10 Wrote:
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> > All joking aside, even if its non operational,
> a
> > display tender engine would be interesting.
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> The beautiful #6 burned up in an engine house fire
> and was lost in 1931, but it's too bad that one of
> the SR&RL Prairies didn't survive. They were
> used in scrapping that railroad and lasted right
> up until the bitter end. Unfortunately, it never
> occurred to anyone that 80 years hence, someone
> might see value in those old horses....even as a
> static display.
>
> /Kevin Madore

That's true Kevin, we have often thought of what might have been. SR&RL 2-6-2 #24 was saved and kept in a shed in Phillips until town taxes on the structure forced the owner to remove the building and scrap the locomotive in 1938. Just 3 more years and Mr. Atwood may have saved the engine.