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Murry Hammond is working to produce Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletters on the following Marion 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:

Jefferson & Northwestern Railway (1899 - 1941).
Clark & Boice Lumber Company (Mill east of Jefferson on Big Cypress, log camps in Cass and Marion counties)

Nearby:
Jefferson Lumber Company / "Kildare & Linden Railroad"
Harleton Log Camp for Clark & Boice. Clark & Boice operated a log camp on a line that connected with the KCS at Lassater. There is a story of a bad log wreck that happened in the Big Cypress creek bottom on this spur.

Thank you!

Jefferson, Texas, 1938 USGS Map.
Source: United State Geological Survey.

Clark and Boice Lumber Company mill and industry tracks at Jefferson, Texas, 1910's.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

Jefferson & Northwestern Railway Data Page (TTA)
Jefferson & Northwestern Ry. History (TTA)
Jefferson & Northwestern Ry. Description (Interstate Commerce Commision)
With Grogan at Bivins and Magnolia (Gulf Coast Lumberman)

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.