Wilmington & Weldon Locomotives | |||||||
1862 | |||||||
Rented one locomotive from Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad for 3 months and one from the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad for 1 month. Oct 30 asked for the 2 locomotives it had had before. |
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1863 |
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August 30 telegram says the road has just refurbished a Richmond-made locomotive purchased from the Richmond & York River RR and intends to call it "Governor Vance." This would have to be the Atlantic. September 1 letter says the road wants to buy a locomotive from the Government for the Tarboro Branch. The annual report stated that two locomotives had been purchased from the Government. |
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October 1, 1864 | |||||||
Annual Report of this date says that 4 locomotives have been purchased from other roads and the government, but no details are provided. Job Terry was a government locomotive, captured from US in 1862. Brunswick was captured by the US in 1864. |
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Name | Number | Type | Date | Builder | Weight | Cylinders | Driver Diam |
Wilmington | 23 | 4x4x0 | 7/1856 | Manchester | 15x22 | ||
Perseverance | 7 | 4x4x0 | 3/1849 | Baldwin | 15 | 13"x16" | 42" |
Goldsboro | 19 | Baldwin | |||||
Orange | 22 | 4x4x0 | 8/1856 | Manchester | 13"x24" | 60" | |
General Schofield | Baldwin | ||||||
President | 17 | 4/1852 | Norris | 12.5x24 | 54" | ||
Lamb | Norris | ||||||
Job Terry | 31 | 4x4x0 | 1846 | Hinckley | 21 | 15"x20" | 60" |
Stonewall Jackson | 32 | Norris | |||||
Brunswick | 1 | 4x2x0 | 2/1839 | Norris | |||
North Carolina | 10 | 0x6x0 | 3/1850 | Baldwin | 12 | 12"x16" | 46" |
Governor Bragg | 24 | 7/1856 | Manchester | ||||
Express/Jeff Davis | 18 | 1854 | Norris | ||||
Alexander McRae | 21 | 1856 | Company shops | ||||
Weldon | 9 | Norris | |||||
P. K. Dickinson | 25 | 4x4x0 | 9/1859 | Baldwin | 20 | 13"x24" | 66" |
Governor Ellis | 26 | 4x4x0 | 10/1859 | Baldwin | 20 | 13"x24" | 66" |
Director | 14 | 2/1852 | Norris | ||||
Quickstep | 15 | 1/1852 | Norris | ||||
Guilford | 20 | 4x4x0 | 6/1855 | Baldwin | 18 | 13.5"x24" | 54" |
Merchant | 12 | 4x4x0 | 5/1851 | Baldwin | 18 | 13.5"x22" | 54" |
Industry | 13 | 4x4x0 | 1/1853 | Baldwin | 18 | 13.5"x24" | 54" |
William H. Haywood | 4 | 1846 | Burr, Pea & Simpson | ||||
Gilbert Potter | 27 | 4x4x0 | 12/1859 | Baldwin | 21 | 14"x24" | 54" |
E. P. Hall | 28 | 4x4x0 | 2/1860 | Rogers | 14"x24" | 54" | |
James K. Polk | 6 | 4x2x0 | 9/1845 | Baldwin | 12 | 13"x16" | 42" |
J. M. Morehead | 8 | 1850 | Company shops | ||||
Farmer | 11 | 5/1851 | Norris | ||||
John C. Calhoun | 3 | 1841 | Baldwin | ||||
E. B. Dudley | 5 | 1846 | Burr, Pea & Simpson | ||||
Governor Vance | 30 | 4x4x0 | 7/1860 | Tredegar | 14"x22" | 60" | |
Tarboro | 29 | 4x4x0 | 1860 | Tredegar |