Murry Hammond is working to produce Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletters on the following Rusk 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:
Timpson & Henderson Railway, 1909 - 1924. Timpson to Henderson via Ragley, Pinehill, Long Branch, and Dotson.
Timpson & Henderson Model-A Rail Car. Just before the line quit, the railroad fitted a Model-A Ford with railroad wheels to make day trips to Henderson and Timpson. I need a photograph and stories of seeing this car operate.
J. B. G. Murphy Family. T. & H. Railway employees at Henderson. Mr. Murphy was the line's master mechanic and kept the equipment running. In later years he lived in an old railroad car near the site of the T. & H.'s engine terminal in Henderson. I would like to make contact with any surviving family.
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.
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