25 Jan 23:
Smithfield, VA. Very short line from Smithfield Packing, down to the Pagan River, for car barge traffic.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Virginian Railway Suffolk Station
25 Jan 23:
The Virginian stopped on the north side of the Suffolk Seaboard Station. The Station is renovated and open today as a Museum, with modern day CSX running on the southside tracks. Some of the Virginian roadbed has been repurposed into a hike and bike trail.
Looking west back towards the Suffolk Station.
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
Atlantic Coast Line Driver VA
22 Jan 23:
The old roadbed for the Atlantic Coast Line, running past the Station Master's House in Driver, VA.
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Surry Lumber Company
22 Jan 23:
The Surry Lumber Company was the parent company of the Surry, Sussex and Southhampton Railway. The company was in operation from the late 1800s until 1930.
A few bits of the company were left behind, including this steam engine.
A desk and chair.
Clipboard!
Scotland Wharf.
Link and pin coupler.
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Surry, Sussex and Southhampton #4 Baldwin 2-6-0 Mogul
22 Jan 23:
#4 was a narrow gauge Baldwin 2-6-0 Mogul, she burned wood first then was converted to coal. She ran the main for a while then later shifted to switching.
Surry, Sussex and Southhampton Railway Donkey Engines #5 and #7, Log Cars and Combination Passenger Coach
22 Jan 23:
Photos from the Surry Historical Society Museum, we hope to get back soon to get better images. These were taken through display case glass at an angle with the least glare, then cropped and enlarged. Sometimes you get what you can get.
Baldwin 0-4-2T engines #5 and #7, aka the donkey engines that worked the log cars out of the woods to the main line.
Combination Passenger Coach.
If you have any better photos please drop us a line at lewis.kent@gmail.com
FMI: Surry, Sussex and Southhampton Railway
Scotland Surry VA S,S&S
22 Jan 23:
Exciting times, we found remnants of an old roadbed for the Surry, Sussex and Southhampton Railway near Scotland Wharf on the James River. Looking West, this line ran uphill abit and curved to the right into a large clearing.
This area would have been part of the wye just up the hill from the wharf.
Norfolk Southern
The Norfolk Southern Railway (reporting mark NS) is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway.
22 Jan 23:
One of our references.
Arcadia Press
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Norfolk Southern In Hampton Roads
22 Jan 23:
One of our references.
Arcadia Press
FMI: Norfolk Southern
Southern Railway Steamboats and Steam Engines Portsmouth-Norfolk
22 Jan 23:
We like boats and we like trains. We especially like old boats and old trains back in days of steam power. Here's a photo from a while back of the steamboat MEMPHIS waiting to take Southern Railways train passengers across the Elizabeth River, back and forth between Portsmouth VA and Norfolk.
For those who didn't know it, Norfolk is an island, even modern day we must take a bridge, tunnel or boat to get from the mainland. The good tug MEMPHIS alternated between passenger runs and moving train car barges across the river.
FMI: Southern Railway
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Monday, January 16, 2023
The Comp'ny: The Story of the Surry, Sussex & Southhampton Railway and the Surry Lumber Company
16 Jan 23:
Crittenden, H. Temple. The Comp'ny: The Story of the Surry, Sussex & Southhampton Railway and the Surry Lumber Company. 1967. McClain Publishing. 2022. Third and Fourth Printing by The Dendron Historical Society.
36 years of detailed research, with many wonderful stories and photos. A very entertaining read, and we are sure there are more stories to be told, and maybe a few different versions!
Reprints available through the Dendron Historical Society and the Surry County Historical Society.
FMI: S,S&S
Surry, Sussex and Southhampton Locomotive Roster (Updated)
16 Jan 23:
Locomotive Roster 1967, with a few updates.
Editor's Note: We give the admirable credit and deep appreciation to Mr. H. Temple Crittenden for compiling his decades of research into the book The Comp'ny, and to the members of the Dendron Historical Society for pushing a project through to see a fourth printing of the book in 2022. And most especially, gratitude to the families and friends of S,S&S and the Surry Lumber Comp'ny, who have shared their stories and to those descendants who will soon share their own remembrances.
Builder / Built /Acquired / Class / Builder's No. / Wheel Arrangement / Cylinders / Drivers
1 Tanner and Delaney / Dec 1883 / - / - / 2-4-0 / - / - /
Note 1: Taken over from David Steele in 1886. Named CORNELIA. Logging tramway locomotive.
1 Richmond L & M Works / 1891 / - / 2169 / 0-4-2T / 7"x14" / - /
Note 2: Built for J. E. and Edward Rogers of Loco, VA. No. 1 on that logging train.
1 Baldwin Loco Works / Jul 1917 / - / 45923 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30
2 Baldwin Loco Works / Sep 1886 / 8-14C25 / 8119 / 4-4-0 / 10"x16" / 43"
Note 3: Sold by S,S&S. In service on Rocky Mount and Northern R.R.
2 Baldwin Loco Works / May 1892 / - / 12075 / 4-6-0 / 9/15"x22 / -
Note 4: Vauclain Compound. Built for Altoona, Clearfield and Northern as No. 3 Sold by that road to the Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Ebensburg and Eastern, then to S,S&S.
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| #2 Vauclain Compound at Scotland Wharf. Image credit: Hollerith Collection |
3 Baldwin Loco Works / Feb 1888 / 6-10-1/3C-23 / 9042 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
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| (Image credit: H. Temple Crittenden. The Comp'ny. 2022 (4th Printing). Dendron Historical Society. McClain Printing Company) |
4 Baldwin Loco Works / Oct 1888 / 8-18D70 / 9576 / 2-6-0 / 12"x18" / 37"
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| (Image credit: The Comp'ny.) |
5 Baldwin Loco Works / Oct 1889 / 6-10-1/3C-29 / 10399 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
Note 5: Sold to Southern Iron and Equipment Co. in Atlanta, GA, as their Item No. 1789.
6 Baldwin Loco Works / Oct 1891 / 8-18D74 / 12288 / 2-6-0 / 12"x18" / 37"
Note 6: Named MARIA. Sold to Argent Lumber Co. Running at Midwest Central Railroad in Mt. Pleasant, IA as of 16 Jan 2023. https://www.mcrr.org/
7 Baldwin Loco Works / Sep 1891 / 6-10-1/3C / 12254 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
Note 7: Sold to Planters Box Company, Suffolk, VA. 9/1924.
8 Baldwin Loco Works / Aug 1896 / 10-22E20 / 14988 / 2-8-0 / 14"x18" / 37"
9 Baldwin Loco Works / Jul 1892 / 6-10-1/3C-43 / 12805 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
10 Baldwin Loco Works / May 1898 / 10-22E24 / 16011 / 2-8-0 / 14"x18" / 37"
11 Baldwin Loco Works / Aug 1902 / 0-4-2T / 6-10-1/3C-59 / 20863 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
12 Baldwin Loco Works / Feb 1901 / 10-22E30 / 20057 / 2-8-0 / 14"x18" / 37"
13 This number was not used.
14 Baldwin Loco Works / Nov 1902 / 10-22E31 / 21236 / 2-8-0 / 14"x18" / 37"
15 Baldwin Loco Works / Aug 1902 / 6-10-1/3C-60 / 20864 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
16 Baldwin Loco Works / Jun 1917 / 10-22D86 / 45714 / 4-6-0 / / 14"x20" / 46 1/2"
Note 8: Sold to Southern Iron and Equipment Co., Atlanta, GA. No. 2283, and by them to International Agricutural Corp.
17 Baldwin Loco Works / Sep 1902 / 6-10-1/3C-61 / 20933 / 0-4-2T / 8"x12" / 30"
18 Baldwin Loco Works / - / - / - / 2-6-0
Note 9: Nothing definite is known of this engine. Sold to Gray Pine Products Company.
19 H. K. Porter Company / 1880 / - / 399 / 0-4-2T / 9"x16" / -
Note 10: Built for Milner Caldwell and Flowers Lumber Co. as No. 2. Sold to Southern Iron and Equipment Co., No. 1024, and by them to the S,S&S on 4-23-197.
20 Baldwin Loco Works / Nov 1919 / 10-18 1/4 D37 / 52587 / 2-6-2 / 12"x18" / 37"
21 This number was not used.
22 Baldwin Loco Works / Nov 1919 / 10-18 1/4 D38 / 52588 / 2-6-2 / 12"x18" / 37"
23 This number was not used.
24 Baldwin Loco Works / Oct 1920 / 10-18 1/4 D-43 / 53795 / 2-6-2 / 12"x18" / 37"
25 This number was not used.
26 Baldwin Loco Works / Oct 1920 / 10-18 1/4 D-43 / 53796 / 2-6-2 / 12"x18" / 37"
Note 11: Sold to the Gray Lumber Company, Waverly, VA., in 1929. In storage at Pine Creek Railroad, Altaire State Park, NJ as of 16 Jan 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Museum_of_Transportation
Ref:
Crittenden, H. Temple. 1967. The Comp'ny. The Story of the Surry, Sussex, and Southhampton Railway and the Surry Lumber Company. McClain Printing Company. 4th Printing available through the Dendron Historical Society.
Many thanks to the Dendron Historical Society for keeping this history alive!
Any updates on the locomotives would be greatly appreciated. Please post a comment or send an email to lewis.kent at gmail
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