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I think the last common carrier steam was Mobile & Gulf in Alabama. It was a lumber company railroad with a 2-6-0 making the 12 mile run once or twice a week. A bunch in Maryland bought the M&G a GE 70t and brought the mogul to Md. for excursions on the Baltimore & Annapolis about 1970. The suburban-types screached "You'll kill our children!" So the group wound up on the Delmarva Peninsula near Ocean City, Md. running the Ocean City Western RR. That was in the very early 70's. The OCW is defunct; I don't know where the ex M&G 2-6-0 is . About the last intrastate outfit in steam was the Edgemoor & Manetta RR in SC. They hauled new bath towels from a mill about 2 miles to the SCLRR with an 0-4-0 saddle tank. Jim Boyd "discovered" the E&M and wrote about it in RMC. E&M came to its end about 1975 when the only on-line bridge fell into Fishing Creek. The 0-4-0 is now in a park somewhere, and the mill probably is in China.
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