NP, AG 8/2/1898

From the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette
 
August 2, 1898
 
History of a Locomotive
   Baltimore & Ohio engine No. 99 which has just been laid aside at Grafton, W. Va., and will be consigned to the scrap pile, has quite a history. It is one of the Ross Winans camel engines, and was built in 1851. There are only four of this class of engines remaining. During the late war this engine was one of several captured at Martinsburg by the Confederates, and was hauled across the country by pike to Staunton, under direction of Col. Thomas R. Sharp. President John W. Garrett, after the war was over, hunted up Col. Sharp and appointed him master of transportation, in recognition of the ability displayed in that unparalleled achievement.
{At the time it was captured, it was No. 199, a Hayes 10-wheel camel. In 1884, the B&O renumbered all locomotives and 199 became 399. The last camels were scrapped in 1899. This article was widely copied.}

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