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Murry Hammond is working to produce Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletters on the following Shelby 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:
W. R. Pickering Lumber Company. (1913 - 1930). At its peak, Haslam had 200 tenent houses, boarding house, hotel, electricity, etc. Log trains were loaded at a point called Milam - I'd like to find out more about Milam and any other Pickering camps.
Timpson & Henderson Railway, 1909 - 1924. Timpson to Henderson via Ragley, Pinehill, Long Branch, and Dotson, a section of which went through Shelby County. 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 - or of any other T. & H. trains through Shelby.
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