Dear SVCR/Hyde Seybold

To avoid future such embarrassments, I would suggest remembering the old axiom: "Be sure brain is in motion before engaging mouth!" The Web is a huge resource for information. It took me about 30 seconds to find the Web site for Kinsley, KS, which provided a phone number for the Kinsley City Manager/City Planner. A simple phone call would likely have answered your question.

The locomotive is listed with a different picture on Santa Fe Preserved Locomotives at:

http://atsf.railfan.net/atsfpres/

The locomotive is also listed on Steamlocomotive.info at:

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomo ... isplay=519

where, under the button "Notes" for this particular locomotive is the following thread, from whence your "information" probably came. The information is unsubstantiated, and the poster is self-identified only as "Doug" without further elaboration.

"If you have additional information about this locomotive, and would like to share it, click the Add Note button.

"Posted: 2012-08-08 14:14:14.73 by John Deck
This engine is not available to haul off for free or for sale per conversations I have had with the Mayor and City Manager of Kinsley, Kansas

"Posted: 2012-06-26 20:08:16.86 by Doug
This engine is for sale... wait, let me reword that: for free for anybody who is able to move her.

"Posted: 2004-08-01 15:03:06.213 by Steve
I stopped and saw this locomotive on 7/28/04."

Mike