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Ya know, now really looking at the photo, I wonder if the engine is the Heisler from Phenix Marble? Can't really make out the hand written K C ? & S
The Phenix Quarry Dinky is still around and running in Vermont. http://youtu.be/Sqrvcvw4Quo At first glance the locomotive in your image is not the same.
The "KCO&S" in this photograph is the Kansas City, Ozarks & Southern, a 15-mile short line that operated between Ava and Mansfield in central-southern Missouri between 1910 and 1935. See the following website for a short history featuring this very photograph: http://nfrailroad.com/page21.html . The author of the website is James Pekarek, whose live-steam "Northfield and Frisco" railroad was a featured attraction at the 2011 Frisco meetup in Springfield. This KCO&S is not to be confused with the "other" KCO&S, the Kansas City, Osceola & Southern, which was merged into the Frisco circa 1900 and became part of its Clinton subdivision. (Ain't railroad genealogy fun?)
I look at this picture and have to laugh. I wonder what the modern railroad safety "experts" would have to say? They are probably unable to speak because of an anxiety attack. Terry
