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

Peavy-Moore Lumber Co. and Sabine & Neches Valley Railway, 1922 - 1944. Peavy-Moore incorporated the company's main logging railroad artery as the Sabine & Neches Valley. The line extended from Deweyville to Gist via a log camp called "Camptown."

Kirby Lumber Company at Call, Texas. Looking for additional photographs of the mill and log trains, and stories of life around the mill town and log camps.

Thank you!

Sabine & Neches Valley, 1936.
Source: Texas Department of Transportation map, 1936, updated to 1939 and 1940.

Wiergate, Texas, 1941 USGS Map Abstract
Source: United States Geological Survey. Abstracted from the original Wiergate Quadrangle topographic map.

Sabine and Neches Valley Railway Locomotive No. 122 at Deweyville, Texas, 1938.
Collection: Murry Hammond

Sabine & Northern R.R. (I.C.C. Tap Line Case)
With Kirby at Call (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Still Developing Deweyville (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Peavy At Deweyville (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Wier at Wiergate (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Wiergate (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
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.