Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:50:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Mike McKnight" Subject: Tanner & Delaney loco in NC To: "David Thomas" Dave, Last night I posted a query on the messageboard of the website I found the T & D loco on, and this morning had received the following response: > AUTHOR: Arthur Marx > DATE: Friday, 28 November 2003, at 6:18 a.m. > > Reply To: (#24) Tanner & Delaney loco in NC > Author: Mike McKnight > Date: Thursday, 27 November 2003, at 11:02 > p.m. > > I went looking for this locomotive a couple of years > ago and did not find it, > though locals readily admit that "it's out there > somewhere". One resident > provided the photo I uploaded, saying that she got > it from her father, Anson > Williams, a descendant of Jack Williams who owned > the locomotive "sometime > after the turn of the century". > > Dunno if this helps. > > Art Above photo at http://www.steamlocomotives.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=1565 Now, this is where it gets interesting; I looked up the site to see the pic he'd posted, and it was the same one you have on your website, that came from "Logging Railroads on Alabama"! Curious, hmmm??? I just got the aforementioned book a few days ago. If I remember correctly, it said something along the lines of "No info is known on this loco, or on this picture....no pole roads were know in this county....." blah-blah-blah. If the fellow that posted the reply is telling the truth, the original of this picture came from two states away! What do you think? He could just be "flim-flamming", or he could have his pictures confused, and he might have a scan of ANOTHER photo of the "local" Tanner & Delaney. I want to contact the fellow, via private e-mail, and quiz him a little, but don't want to insult him by insinuating he doesn't know what he's talking about with his picture! Any suggestions? I had a chance to look up Swan Quarter, NC, on a map, and I think I could see how a locomotive could hide pretty well there. Nothing but swamps! Shame it's over 900 miles away, or I'd be tempted to go hunting for "big game" in NC......wouldn't be the first wild goose chase I've gone on looking for iron. When I was younger, my dad heard about an old tractor on someone's farm. We spent most of the afternoon walking the farm over, and no tractor. Come to find out the fellow that told my dad about the tractor had his farms confused, and the farm the tractor was on was actually about 10 miles away! Went to the right farm, sure enough, there was the tractor..... TTYL Mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/