Jackson’s Great Train Raid revisited

(Washington Post) Next weekend, an unusual sort of Civil War re-enactment is planned in Strasburg, Va., about 80 miles west of Washington. When Col. Thomas Jackson stole several B&O railroad locomotives from Martinsburg early in the war, he had to find a way to get them to Richmond.
The nearest connecting railroad was in Strasburg so he sent four of the locomotives over land by horse and mule team to that town where they were reassembled and sent south. The event became known as the Great Train Raid. Continued

Photo: Modern day train at Harpers Ferry (MDRails).