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The Gene Autry connection is that Gene purchased an option 
to buy the engine but changed his mind when another engine 
was located closer to his home.  Gene sold his option to the 
guy who did buy it and shipped it back to Blowing Rock.  
This information again comes from the Cy Crumley scrapbook.

Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, VA

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>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:37:01 -0400

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>   The picture really brings back memories from when I

>   was very young.  I remember my Dad taking me to see

>   the steam engine loaded on a flat car. I also

>   recollect something about Gene Autry buying of

>   selling it?  We were visiting my grandmother in the

>   early/mid 1950's who lived in Harrisonburg at the

>   time.  What was the date the picture was taken on?

>   When I saw the locomotive it must have been in

>   Harrisonburg or Elkton?

>

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>

>   Ed Painter - a Virginian from Narrows currently

>   living in Russellville, AR

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>   I would guess, based upon this style of the number

>   12 on the cab, this picture may have been taken when

>   the engine was being shipped from the defunct

>   Shenandoah Central tourist line to it's new home in

>   Blowing Rock, NC. The picture on the Johnson's Depot

>   site shows the engine as it left Johnson City, TN

>   for Virginia.

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>

>   #12 still operates at the Tweetsie Theme Park which

>   will shortly open for its 51st season.

>

>    

>

>   Jerry A. Shepardson

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>

>   Gordon,

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>

>   Thanks for the information. The picture on that

>   website shows it loaded on a different flat car.

>   Interesting.

>

>    

>

>   Richard D. Shell

>

>   Troutville, VA

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