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.
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.
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.
FMI: Surry, Sussex and Southhampton Railway
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.
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.
FMI:
04 Jan 26: Isle of Wight County VA rail lines and stations, 1880 Rand McNally map.