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

Caro Northern Railway (1906 - 1931)
Whiteman-Decker / Saner-Whiteman Lumber Company at Caro. The C.N. ran from the Caro community in the northern part of the county to Mount Enterprise in Rusk County. The line started out as a logging railroad that hauled passengers and mail, and in later years held on to what little freight it recieved by using a small gasoline locomotive and a Model-T truck converted for use on the rails. One community, Sand Flat, served as a loading point for the lumber company's log trains.

Caro Northern at Mount Enterprise, 1920's.

Nacogdoches & Southeastern Railway, 1904 - 1954. Operated a line of railroad to through Woden to Oil Springs, where the tracks became the lumber company's private railroad and extended further through the woods to the logging camp of Camp Worth, and finally to a connection in Shelby County with the Santa Fe.

Camp Worth. Logging camp of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company established about 1928, and disbanded in 1949 when the area timber supply was depleted. I am looking for more stories of life at Camp Worth, and more class pictures (I have 1934 and 1935).

Thank you!

Caro, Texas, 1936.
Source: Texas Highway Department county map, 1936, updated to 1939.

Nacogdoches & Southeastern Railway, Nacogdoches to Woden, 1936.
Source: Texas Highway Department county map, 1936, updated to 1939.

Frost Makes Improvements at Nacogdoches (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Frost At Nacogdoches (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Caro Northern Ry. (I.C.C. Tap Line Case)
Nacogdoches & Southeastern R.R. (I.C.C. Tap Line Case)
Angelina & Neches River R.R. (I.C.C. Tap Line Case)

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.