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Sunday, May 17, 2009

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Richard Reynolds said...: This is stock semi No.8.

In 1956 it went out on the so-called King Eastern unit. That rag tag outfit stumbled along until it abandoned this trailer and its animal contents north of Atlanta.

The trailer was moved to Atlanta and the animals sent to the Atlanta zoo (now Zoo Atlanta). Also abandoned was the fighting lion truck no.95.

Emptied of the animals both nos. 8 and 95 wound up abandoned at the Atlanta Humane Society on our Howell Mill Rd. I photographed both there. Today, old Floyd’s leaving a trail of abandoned exotic animals would be front page stuff in the New York Times, (it made big news as it was); and he would likely be tried, convicted, and sentenced to jail.

For many years another of King’s stock trailers was in a junk yard on Macon’s north side, right where US 41 crossed (crosses) under the Central of GA RR overpass.

The trailer was in the back of the lot next to the RR tracks. I saw it many times when I rode by the site on the Nancy Hanks streamliner (en route to Delia’s hometown of Sprngfield, GA, near Savannah).; 17 May, 2009 11:55

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