15 Feb 26:
It might be hard to believe that we have hobbies other than small boats, but we do. Railroad history and modeling is one of those other hobbies. Today we went to a presentation on the Surry, Sussex and Southampton Railway, which operated in Virginia from the 1880s to 1930, generating commerce from the lumber industry.
Here's a shot of one of their engines rolling through Isle of Wight County, which was an area that the SS&S expanded to later in their existence, so theoretically they were the SSS&IOW Railway.
Two engines are still in existence today, one with the Midwest Central Railroad and another in New Jersey.
To learn more about the SS&S, track down a copy of H. Temple Crittenden's book The Comp'ny. Reprints are available from the Dendron Historical Society and Surry Historical Society.
FLI: SS&S
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