Richmond & Danville Locomotives

1862

Planet was removed from the road and used as the engine to power the carpenter shop. Leased Pocahontas and Atlas from CS Government (Atlas was the US locomotive Ferguson; both were captured from Pope).

1863

Amelia and Atlas (captured Union Ferguson) were sold to the Piedmont RR. 

1864

Purchased Mars (captured US locomotive Red Bird), Pocahontas and Atlas from CS Government. Leased the following: Wyanoke -- Memphis & Ohio; Knoxville, City of Memphis, Samuel D. Cunningham, New York, J. B. Ross, and G. W. Adams -- East Tennessee & Virginia; G. B. Lamar and H. Gourdine -- Nashville & Chattanooga

Name Number Type Date Builder Weight Cylinders Driver Diam
Roanoke     7/1850 Talbot 18.85 12.5"x20" 54"
Fury     9/1850 Tredegar 18.9 12.5"x20" 48"
Tempest     10/1850 Tredegar 19 12.5"x20" 48"
Potomac     10/1850 Globe 22 14"x20" 54"
Elvira   4x4x0 11/1851 Boston 20.5 14"x20" 60"
Appomattox    4x4x0 12/1851 Boston 20 14"x20" 48"
Planet     3/1853 Reading RR 9 10"x18" 52"
Charlotte   4x4x0 7/1853 Boston 20.5 14"x20" 60"
Carolina    4x4x0 7/1853 Boston 20.5 14"x20" 48"
Pittsylvania     7/1853 Tredegar 21 14"x20" 48"
Richmond     8/1853 Tredegar 22 14"x20" 48"
Chesterfield   4x4x0  5/1854 Tredegar 22 16"x20" 54"
Virginia   4x4x0 6/1854 Boston 21 14"x20" 60"
Henry   4x4x0  6/1854 Boston 21 14"x20" 60"
Amelia   4x4x0 8/1854 Tredegar 20 13"x20" 60"
Bannister    4x4x0 1/1855 Boston 24.7 15"x24" 60"
Powhatan    4x4x0 1/1855 Boston 24.7 15"x24" 60"
Danville     7/1855 Tredegar 26.6 16"x24" 54"
W. P. Tunstall     8/1857 Company shops 26 15"x22" 66"
Vincent Witcher    4x4x0 3/1858 Boston 25 15"x24" 60"
L. E. Harvie     4/1858 Tredegar 25.7 16"x24" 54"
John McFarland     5/1859 Company shops 26 15"x22" 66"
C. Campbell     1/1860 Tauton 26.6 16"x22" 60"
Pocahontas   4x4x0  5/1860 Mason   15"x22" 60"
Atlas   4x4x0 1856 Lawrence Machine Shop 24 16"x20" 56"
Mars   4x4x0 1862 New Jersey   16"x24" 54"
Wyanoke    4x4x0  1856 Tauton 26 13"x22" 68"
Knoxville    4x4x0 6/1860  Smith & Jackson 24 15"x22" 54"
City of Memphis    4x4x0  7/1860 Rogers 26 15"x22" 60"
G. B. Lamar    4x4x0  11/1856 Rogers   15"x24" 55"
H. Gourdine    4x4x0  3/1856 Rogers   15"x24" 55"
Samuel D. Cunningham    4x4x0  6/1858 Norris 28 16"x24" 57"
New York    4x4x0  10/1861 Rogers 20 13.5"x24" 54"
J. B. Ross   4x4x0  10/1861  Danforth & Cooke 23 13"x22" 60"
G. W. Adams   4x4x0 10/1861 Danforth & Cooke 23 13"x22" 60"

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