W. Denny & Co.
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Standard gauge, -lb rail Headquarters: Moss Point Mill Location: Moss Point, MS ( Jackson County) Mill Capacity: 150,000 ft/day in 1910 (2 mills) Years of Operation (RR): 1903-1909 Miles Operated: 36 miles in 1909 Locomotives Owned: 5 |
See also: Pascagoula Northern RR Equipment: Dec. 13, 1907- included 1
pile driver, 39 log wagons, 31 miles of railroad from O’Leary mill
northerly into Jackson Co., 3 locos, 2 flat cars, 53 log cars, 3 hand
cars, and 49 camp cars. (Jackson Co. Land Mortgage and Deeds of Trust on
Land Book 1, p.139...dah 2-17-98) |
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History by Gil Hoffman: W.
Denny & Co. established its first mill in Moss Point in 1853. In the
fall of 1903 W. Denny & Company built a tram road from its O'Leary mill
on the Escatawpa River to the mouth of Bayou Casotte. The intention was to
extend this line northward to meet the tram road of D. C. Bacon &
Company, then being built southward from Brushy, Miss., on the Mobile
Jackson & Kansas City Railroad. The survey of the road from Moss Point
to Donovan, Miss., on the M. J. & K. C., was completed in early 1907. The
company went into receivership and in June 1909 the 36 mile railroad was
sold to the Pascagoula Northern Railroad.
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman and Tony Howe:
1
2-4-2T
Baldwin
11182
9-1890 48
14x20 56000
Purchased
from Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #241, Atlanta, GA, on 9-24-03. Cost
$2,850. Built
as Bessemer & Birmingham #10, Birmingham, AL (dummy type);
toBirmingham Railway & Electric Co., Birmingham, AL; to Southern Iron
& Equipment Co. #241. Sold
to Pascagoula Northern #1, Moss Point, MS, in 6-1909; to Pascagoula, Moss
Point & Northern #1, Moss Point, MS, on 4-30-12; to Georgia Car &
Locomotive Co. #216, Atlanta, GA; to The Hunter Co. #3, Jasper, FL, in
3-1914. Baldwin
class 8-22¼ C 8 2
unk
unk
76000 app
Purchased
from Illinois Central RR on
7/21/1905 (per Pascagoula Democrat-Star) 3
2-6-0
B. & O. R.R.
58
19x24 Purchased
secondhand by Pascagoula Northern 12-1906. Built
as Baltimore & Ohio # To
Pascagoula, Moss Point & Northern R.R. #3, on 4-30-12. Sold
to Alabama & Mississippi R.R. #3, Vinegar Bend, AL, on 6-23-15. 4
4-6-0
Schenectady 1694
1-1883
55
18x24 88000
Purchased
by Pascagoula Northern from Georgia Locomotive Co. #65, Atlanta, GA, on
7-29-09. Cost $3,950. Built
as Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern #46; to Newport News &
Mississippi Valley #558 in 1887; to Illinois Central #259 in 1896; to
Dunnellon Phosphate Co., Dunnellon, FL, in 1-1903; to Standard &
Hernando R.R. #5, Rockwell, FL, in 11-1903; to Georgia Locomotive Co. #65. To
Pascagoula, Moss Point & Northern R.R. #4, on 4-30-12. Sold
to Alabama & Mississippi R.R. #4, Vinegar Bend, AL, on 6-23-15. |
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For more information contact Tony Howe at howe6818@bellsouth.net or David S. Price at dsprice46@bellsouth.net