Something that might be of interest:
http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=31253
Ah, history!
This is one of those events that makes me wish for time travel, to get a bird's eye view. Imagine pulling off a heist where the loot is several dozen locomotives and a large string of rolling stock.
If memory serves... a large portion of the locos were the unattractive Winan's Camel, a very efficient machine for its day. Too bad none of those survived for preservation.
Didn't the Confederates harvest a couple of the boilers for the iron clads?
Regards,
Jonathan
J3 - Thanks for the link. What started as a quick check of the Bachmann board this morn just turned into a couple of hours of reading about the raid.
as a b&o fan, i think this is one of the most fascinatiing, yet unknown chapters in the civil war.....