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Murry Hammond is working to produce Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletters on the following Liberty County subjects. In general, I am looking for photographs to illustrate these histories, and surviving family stories to personalize them. If you have any pictures or stories on these old log railroads or sawmill life that you would be willing to let us copy for our publication, I'd love to speak with you by mail or e-mail or telephone. Contact: Murry Hammond (click for e-Mail) or call anytime at 818-653-4626.

Here are our needs:

Trinity Valley & Northern Railway (1906 - 1933). The TV&N operated log trains to Dayton, and ran a little Model-T or Model-A car that ran on rails, delivering mail, freight and people to and from Lumm, Macedonia, and Dayton.

Macedonia community. In northern Liberty County. Served as a loading point for Dayton Lumber Company woods workers loading log trains for Dayton.

Lumm community. End-of-track for the Dayton Lumber Company logging railroad.

Thank you!

Trinity Valley and Northern Railway, 1930, showing existing, abandoned and proposed lines.
Source: Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway map.

Trinity Valley and Northern Railway, 1919 General Reference Map.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

Trinity Valley and Northern Railway tracks at Dayton, Texas, 1920.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

Miller-Vidor Lumber Company, general map of operations at Milvid, Timber and Beaumont, Texas 1910.
Source: American Lumberman Magazine, October 1910.

Big Creek & Trinity Valley Railroad No. 2 at the Liberty Hardwood Co. Mill at Big Creek, Texas, 1908.
Source: Murry Hammond Collection.

Peach River & Gulf R.R. ("Tap Line Case" Company Summary)
Riverside & Gulf Railway (Milvid, Texas; "Tap Line Case" Company Summary)
Trinity Valley & Northern Ry. ("Tap Line Case" Company Summary)
Timbered Texas (Galveston Daily News, 1900)

Logging Railroads of East Texas, 89-Page Magazine on CD-Rom Format.
The history of the logging railroads and tram operations in East Texas between 1840 and 1964. PDF file containes 100 photographs in 89 pages, on a CD-Rom.