 The evacuation of any more locomotives or rail cars by the Manassas Gap Railroad became too risky for potential re-capture by Union forces, and so those ten locomotives and additional rail cars were moved by the same carriage and dolly method south from Martinsburg through Winchester and on to the Virginia Central Railroad in Staunton, Virginia.Robert C. Black has yet a different view.He notes that "nine miles of rail" plus "five well-furbished [not burnt] steam locomotives, plus $40,000 worth (U.S.) of machine tools and other materials [were] removed from the Martinsburg shops."