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

Lufkin, Hemphill & Gulf Railway (1912 - 1938). This company was the incorporated tracks of the Knox Lumber Company, which had a large mill at East Mayfield, just west of Hemphill. For a time it operated a car or bus fitted with railroad wheels. The vehicle hauled passengers and mail. We are looking for stories of seeing it or riding it, and - has anyone ever seen a photograph?

East Mayfield mill town . Looking for stories about life in the town during the Knox sawmill days.

Watson sawmill / Talltimber Lumber Company. This small mill was located on a long spur north of the L. H. & G. Ry., between Bronson and Hemphill. We are wondering if they had their own locomotive and tram, and we also need a photograph.

Thank you!

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory

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

Lufkin, Hemphill & Gulf Railway in 1936, showing Kirby lumber trams west of Bronson and east of Hemphill.
Source: Texas Highway Department.

Kirby Lumber Company tram at Pineland in 1936, showing route east through the Yellowpine community.
Source: Texas Highway Department.

Temple Lumber Company Mill at Pineland, Texas, circa 1910 - 1920's.
Collection: Murry Hammond

With Southern Pine At Pineland (Gulf Coast Lumberman)

Related:
Diboll's Improvements (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
WithTemple At Diboll (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Texas Southeastern R.R. (I.C.C. Tap Line Case)
Timbered Texas (Galveston Daily News, 1900)

Journal of Texas Shortlines & Transportation, Vol. 2 No. 4
Texas South Eastern Railway Company and the Southern Pine Lumber Company and the Temple Lumber Company, which had mills at Diboll, Bronson and Pineland. This issue emphasizes the operation at Diboll. 52 pages, maps, photographs, some color.

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.