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

Peach River Lines (1906 - 1933). From 1902 to 1924, the private railroads of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company were operated as the Peach River & Gulf and the Riverside & Gulf railroads. The Peach River & Gulf ran between Timber in eastern Montgomery County to Milvid in northeastern Liberty County, while the Riverside & Gulf operated south from Milvid.

Foster Lumber Company. Fostoria, Texas.

Delta Land & Timber / Conroe Lumber Company. Conroe, Texas.

Thank you!

1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

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

Peach River & Gulf R.R. ("Tap Line Case" Company Summary)
Riverside & Gulf Railway (Milvid, Texas; "Tap Line Case" Company Summary)
Timbered Texas (Galveston Daily News, 1900)
A Visit to the Kirby Mills (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Foster At Fostoria (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Improvements Made At Fostoria (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
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.