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from the perspective of Ron Simpson, CRD model railroad builder |
| KMR #4 |
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This is the only engine specifically built for the KMR, arriving late in 1912. It operated
only nine months before the KMR
closed down. The WP&Y Ry purchased this engine and a number of additional pieces of rolling stock in 1942 for use on the WP & Yukon Railway, where it operated for several more years until being retired in 1952. It was eventually sold to a buyer in Milwaukee in 1955 to become part of a kind of carnival operation where it was renamed the "Hooterville Cannonball" with the tender indentified as the "Petticoat Junction RR." This was not the one from the television series, which occurred on the Sierra Railroad in California, but was instead an attempt to cash in on the popularity of that show. The locomotive went through a series of moves over the years and now sits in storage in Adair, Oklahoma. |
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| This was KMR 4 in Dawson in 1912-13--the only picture I have seen of this unit in action. |
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