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The Spring of 1940 saw the trackmen ripping up the rails at Gibboney Station. Engine No.6 is shown hauling a winch to pull the rail onto a flat-car. (Author's collection)
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KV Sold for Scrap
The KV's fate was sealed on
March 15,1940, when an agreement between the management and
the Rochester Iron & Metal Co. was signed. Since the company was going to scrap the
road it had no use for the real estate, so the final price agreed upon was only $22,000.
A group of men began to tear up the tracks in the first week of April. Some 15 or 20
local men were hired to do the work supervised by five employees of the scrap company.
It was predicted that the men would have three or four weeks of work dismantling the
railroad. The work began in Belleville, where the rails were pulled up and loaded on
flatcars, then hauled to Reedsville over the remaining trackage.
Engine No.6 was used for the work train, and it
was reported that its puffing noise and whistle were welcome sounds to the ears of
Belleville residents.
Still the morn, no KV whistle;
Still the morn, no KV bell;
And with sorrow I remember
And with sorrow I recall
That its useful life is over,
That its life of toil is done,
Wrapped within the days gone by.
Lee Victor Alexander
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