Ahrns & CO.

Ahrns & CO. was an industrial mining complex which mined slate, coal, rock and basically anything they could get their hands on. They had 2 mines set up, one at the end of the L&T and the other at a spur from Somersby. They were also a rather large steam locomotive building company.

Biography
The company's first location was just outside Timerton, this was via a deal with the Loudas & Timerton Railway, giving the company full rights to use their metals to transport supplies and their product, as long as they got a share of said product (mainly coal) for a discounted price. At first, they would rent an engine from the L&T to take the goods trains. However Christoph was never happy with the idea of using these locos as it took away one of the L&T's rather little fleet, specially since the line was so busy. therefore Christoph designed and built Morgan in 1875. Morgan was found to perform extremely well for what they wanted. Christoph now had the idea to expand from just a mining company.