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Comp'ny, The by H. Temple Crittenden 1967 The Company Surry Sussex & Southampton
Compny, The by H. Temple Crittenden Surry Sussex & Southampton Rwy
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1967 Bumped corners Dust Jacket has some damage
246 Pages
Contents
Steele to Surry 1
The Three "S's" Takes Form 15
Early Operation 33
West Hope 49
Ev'ryday Railroadin' 63
Personnel 75
Progress 95
Southward 115
Eastward 133
"JC" Arrives153
The War Boom 167
Post-War Prosperity185
New Timber and Re-Cuts 201
Scraping the Barrel 219
Locomotive Roster 237
Addendum 239
Lumbering in the south pre-dates the American Revolution, but it was not until shortly before the Civil War that loggers in the pine and cypress regions discovered the flanged wheel on a wood rail as a means of transporting their logs.
This is the warm and sometimes humorous story of one logger and its forebearers that spanned the era of steam railroading in the south. It is the tale of Virginia's Surry Lumber Company and its common carrier ward, the Surry, Sussex and Southampton Railway. The Comp'ny built its empire upon light rail, small locomotives, sweat and determination during the, Reconstruction Era. Over the years the loggers from Dendron daylighted more timberland than any other firm in the state. It died during the depression, scattering narrow gauge equipment to the proverbial four winds.
This then is the birth to the death history of a Southside narrow-gauger, its hard years and good times, its diminutive trains echoing their whistles out of the swampy bottomlands. It is the story of the people who labored in the woods, on the trains and at the mills, written by the man who knew them best. This is The Comp'ny.
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