Re: D&RG records

hank Wrote:
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> I've always sort of wondered ir the D&RG kept some
> of the lighter engines(4-4-0's, 2-6-0's, 0-6-0T's)
> around after 1890, even though they weren't needed
> and certainly were not after 1893, in hopes of
> selling them off.

Making your point, that 4-4-0 behind the #71 is a class 37, which were out of service on the D&RG by the late 1880's. I get the impression that "dismantled" in D&RG records means something more akin to an engine being reduced to a parts source rather than necessarily being wholly scrapped at the given date.