| 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. |
|