DaveBrt
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2010
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
In Haupt's Reminiscences, he notes that it took about an hour to unload the 8 cars from each of his two railroad ferry barges and reload them with 8 more. It then took 6 hours to tow the two barges from Alexandria to Aquia Creek. To transport a single train's contents from Warrenton Junction across country to Falmouth would have taken 200 wagons four to six days and would have cost $3,000 more per day than the cost of the water route,