| Annual Report of the Mobile & Great
Northern RR |
| as of April 1, 1866, |
| Chief Engineer's Report |
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| Chief Engineer's Report |
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| Office Chief Engineer and General
Superintendent |
| Mobile & Great Northern Railroad |
| Mobile, April 1, 1866 |
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| Colonel W. D. Dunn |
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President Mobile & Great Northern Railroad Company
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Sir,
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At the date of the last annual report the United States
troops were operating against the city of Mobile, and the railroad
machinery was being transferred to the west side of the bay with the
view of its safe removal to the interior of Mississippi.
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With the exception of the train, consisting of the engine
Escambia and 10 cars, burned at Gravella station on the Alabama &
Florida railroad, and referred to in the former report, all the
rolling stock and machinery of the road was successfully brought off,
and on the 11th day of April taken to Shubuta, Mississippi. The steam
ferry-boat Senator was run to Columbus, on the Tombigbee, under the
care and control of Captain J. K. Hawthorn.
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*****
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Track -- The track has been kept in tolerably good
order, much better than the southern roads generally at this
particular time.
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We have at all times been in want of rails, as you well
know a large portion of the road is laid with inferior iron, purchased
of necessity during the war. This iron must continue a fruitful source
of trouble and anxiety to the company, until able to remove it.
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The heavy rails purchased of Jno. Rogerson & Co are
wearing well, and, with the exception of the first half mile, between
the switches and Tensas, are free from lamination.
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*****
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***** The temporary machine shops at Tensas were not
worth reoccupying or repairing, and as the location was very
unhealthy, steps were taken, as soon as the road was reopened, to
remove them. *****
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Rolling stock -- At the last report we had 4
locomotives, 4 passenger cars, 14 box cars, 17 platform cars, 2 stock
cars, 6 ditching cars, 6 hand cars, and 4 truck cars.
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One of the engines was mentioned in the last report as
having been burned, with 10 cars, at Gravella, on the Alabama &
Florida railroad, by the United States troops, on the 24th day of
March, 1865.
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The engine was not seriously damaged, and after being
repaired in the shops of the Alabama & Florida road, was again put
to work on the road.
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*****
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Very respectfully,
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G. Jordan
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Chief engineer and Superintendent
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