| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| August 9, 1862 |
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| The Locomotive "Victory" |
| The mechanical enterprise and
skill of the "Macon & Western railroad repair shop," at
Macon, we have gratifying evidence of, a day or two ago, in wishing
the handsome locomotive "Victory" on ??? the railroad tracks
near the depot in this city, proudly challenging, as it were, the
critical examination of our experienced machinists, while it was
commanding the admiration of our citizens: for though they, as well as
ourselves, have seen more powerful engines, none have seen more
bright, a more beautiful "machine." We learn that the work
on this was commenced about eight months ago; that it was done in the
"Macon & Western railroad repair shop;" and that, with
the exception of the bell, safety balance, steam gauge, and
water-gauge, it was completed in that shop; these, too, would have
been made there, but for the fact that they were already on hand. We
also learn that the brass mountings of the engine were cast at the
foundry of the shop in Macon, by a Macon made mechanic. All this is
highly creditable to the machinists of the shop, where the
"Victory" was constructed, for, if we are correctly advised,
and we believe we re, there is no locomotive shop in America, that
does all the work, or finishes all the material, of a locomotive --
the brass mountings, wheels, axles, etc., being all purchased for
their machines. |
| The "Victory" weighs
23 tons, and cost a little over $8,000. She is now being run by
Engineer Joe Hartman, and was constructed under the supervision of Mr.
E. Crockett, the master machinist of the shop. |
| We see in this evidence that
the South can go on and build her locomotives. She possesses both the
mechanical skill and ability to do so. If she will only be energetic,
and persevere, she will achieve another victory over the North,
as important in its results, as victories won upon the battle
field. The machinists of Macon have shown what they can do. Those of
Atlanta have already demonstrated their ability to turn out work of
the same description. Savannah, if she has not already done so, can
with her machinists do the same. Let us then have no more Yankee
locomotives after this revolution is ended and our independence won,
but let us construct them at home, in Georgia, and thus achieve a
victory in mechanics over the world, and especially over the North. |
| Atlanta Intelligencer |
| {It appears this was
the rebuild of the old DeKalb. See the Annual Reports of the
Superintendent.} |
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