NP, RD 10/11/1862

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
October 11, 1862
 
The captured Yankee Railroad engines
   We understand that the engines recently taken near Manassas by Gen. Stuart's cavalry have all been brought away, and are now beyond the reach of the enemy. Being on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, where engines of their class were needed, Superintendent Vandegrift selected such of them as were most valuable to his road and put them in operation. Since then it has been ascertained that the Virginia Central and {Richmond &} Danville Railroad companies, especially the former, were very much pressed for motive power to meet the Government demands, in consequence of which a selection by lot of the locomotives was decided upon by the authorities, and was made Thursday at the office of the Virginia Central Railroad Company, and resulted as follows: The Virginia Central Railroad drew the "Hero," an engine built by Norris & Sons with 16 by 24-inch cylinders, four and a half feet wheels, and weighing about 38 tons. The "Job Terry," built by Hinckley & Co., cylinders 15 ½ by 20 inches, five feet driving-wheels, and 18 tons weight. The Orange & Alexandria Railroad drew a Rogers engine, the "President," (formerly had a likeness of Old Abe on it,) 16 by 22-inch cylinders, drivers five feet in height, and 26 tons weight. The "Red Bird," built by Smith & Jackson, 16-inch cylinder, with 22 inches stroke, and four and a half feet driving wheels, weight 26 tons. A "camel-back" burthen engine, Ross Winans, builder, cylinders 18 by 24 inches, and three and a half feet, eight wheels connected, weighing 38 tons {named "136"}. And to the lot of the Richmond & Danville Railroad fell the "Capt. Ferguson," built at the Lawrence Manufacturing Company, 15½ by 24-inch cylinders, four and a half feet wheels, and 26 tons in weight; and one with no name {D. C. McCallum}, built by Mason & Co., 16 by 22-inch cylinders, five feet drivers.

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