East Texas Logging Railroads by Murry Hammond

East Texas Logging Railroads Murry Hammond ebook
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Page: 128
ISBN: 9781467115742
Format: pdf

The Texas Southeastern Railroad Company was chartered on October 9, already connected with the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company at Diboll. "Green Gold" An Introduction to the Logging Railroads of East Texas. Lufkin Railroad Depot, Southern Pacific Lines, Texas, circa 1959. Logging camps were common throughout the lumber industry, and were to the forest products companies of East Texas during the early 20th century. The Steam Rail and Logging Tram Roads of East Texas. He served as the Texas Forestry Association President in 1961 and 1962. Aldridge Sawmill and the East Texas Logging Bonanza exhibit was . Machinery from Early East Texas Logging Railroads background and history. Dixie Sparks recalled a Pickering logging front at Milam in Sabine County during the He believed they were not unlike other East Texas sawmill companies. Steel Gang Laying a Logging Railroad in the Piney Woods of East Texas. The image is from the East Texas Research Center Collection. By the second decade of the 20th century, highly efficient railroad logging was at full-scale operation in the forests of east Texas.