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

Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Railway (1922 - 1959), the "Wobbly." We want o produce a larger publication on this company's very interesting railroad story.

Onalaska / West Lumber Company. Looking for additional photos and stories.

Livingston & Southeastern / Knox Lumber Company (1903 - 1913). Operated a short logging railroad from Livingston to "Knox", also known as "Soda."

Providence Camp, near Livingston. Log camp for Knox Lumber Company.

Carmona. Large mill and mill town were operated by the Saner-Ragley Lumber Company.

Campwood. Logging camp in western Polk County, was also the end-of-track of the Warren & Corsicana Pacific Railroad.

Thank you!

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

1909 Telephone Subscribers List
1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

Barnum, Texas, 1919 I.C.C. Survey Map.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

Camden, Texas, 1955 USGS Map.
Source: United State Geological Survey.

Carmona and Ragley, Texas, 1930 Soil Map.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Corrigan, Texas, 1930 Soil Map.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Goodrich, Texas, 1930 Soil Map.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

New Willard, Texas, 1930 Soil Map.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Onalaska, Texas, 1930 Soil Map.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Onalaska, Texas, 1919 I.C.C. Survey Map.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

Stryker, Texas, 1927 USGS Map.
Source: United State Geological Survey.

Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company Locomotive No. 101
During the 1920's and 30's, this engine pulled log trains out of Polk County to feed the company's large sawmill at Trinity in Trinity County. Murry Hammond Collection.

Life in a Southern Sawmill Community (Carmona in 1931)
The Sawmills of William Cameron & Co., Inc. (Self-Published, 1925)
Carmona Commissary, 1908. (Wm. Cameron Co. book photo sections)
Timbered Texas (Galveston Daily News, 1900)

Journal of Texas Shortlines & Transportation, Vol. 1 No. 3
Moscow Camden & San Augustine Railroad and W. T. Carter's lumber empire at Barnum and Camden, Texas. 60 pages, softcover. Includes additional material on Shreveport, Houston & Gulf Railroad and the Carter-Kelley Lumber Company at Manning and Prestridge, Texas in Angelina County.

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.