Owen Tuller's name no longer appears in advertisements for stage service to Waynesville. Parker and Smith's Southwestern Stage Company now provides this service on the Wire Road from the railroad terminus at Jerome (west of Rolla) into Indian Territory with a stop at Waynesville (Springfield Leader, February 28, 1968, p.2).

The stage coach's days are numbered, however. The railroad was completed through Pulaski County in 1869. The train had increased capacity, more comfort, and covered the distance in a third of the time. McDonald knew the stage business was at an end in 1870 (see last ad in 1870). He sold the Waynesville House and moved 10 miles north to the newly created railroad town of Crocker.