This was a great shot of the standard gauge 205, but I got a bad copy negative on it a long time ago and it has since been preserved by a noted rail historian in an undetermined location. This is the 205, that came to the fold not long after the 204, sometime in the 1940s I think. Here again ask Johnny Graybeal or John Waite. What I do know is that she was from the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac railroad and had been their number 13 and was bought from a used engine dealer in Cincinnati. The old boys said she was a real stout puller but would beat you to death jumping up and down as she had no engine truck. She was sold in 1956 to the Cadiz Railroad up in central Kentucky and then sold again to the Crabtree Coal Company.
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