DaveBrt
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2010
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
"The car, from the RR point of view, was not just sitting in Atlanta. The car was brought to Atlanta empty from Virginia. The prime contemporary example were the cars dedicated to the Augusta Armory. The cars & the reusable boxes were not available for any other use. Only one run delivered goods to Lee. It took two deadhead runs to make that system work."
Cars were unloaded in Atlanta from where ever they had come from, then loaded and sent out. Of course, the RRs did not want their rolling stock on "foreign roads," but that was frequently overcome by the army. So for the Knoxville route, the question is whether there was W&A RR rolling stock sitting unused. I doubt you can make a case that there was -- Bragg, Johnston, Brown and others were all over the W&A to ship to the max.
There are plenty of references to railroad men complaining that the cars never stopped, so they did not receive the maintenance and repairs they needed. ROLLING stock was precious and kept rolling.
Cars were unloaded in Atlanta from where ever they had come from, then loaded and sent out. Of course, the RRs did not want their rolling stock on "foreign roads," but that was frequently overcome by the army. So for the Knoxville route, the question is whether there was W&A RR rolling stock sitting unused. I doubt you can make a case that there was -- Bragg, Johnston, Brown and others were all over the W&A to ship to the max.
There are plenty of references to railroad men complaining that the cars never stopped, so they did not receive the maintenance and repairs they needed. ROLLING stock was precious and kept rolling.