In 1993 we held an auction to sell the remaining locomotives from the former Rail City Museum.  Number 25 from the Solvay Process Company was one of the locomotives.  What we did not anticipate was that among the many interested buyers from across the USA and Canada was a local scrap dealer.  To our astonishment, none of the railroad enthusiasts attending the auction bid on this unique  locomotive and slope-back tender which was sold for only $2,500.  Prior to the auction there was considerable interest in this particular locomotive and tender.  An attempt was made to stall the scrapping of the locomotive to find an interested party to restore it.  The day a check arrived from Denver, CO (double the amount paid by the scrap dealer) the new owner had commenced scrapping of the locomotive.  To our regret, we set a timetable for the removal of the equipment not anticipating any ineterest in the equipment from scrap dealers.