Code: | 223 |
Corporate Name: | East West Texas Railway Company |
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Incorporated: | |
Ownership: | Bermea Land and Lumber Company with Andrew Bermea |
Years of Operation: | 1899 to 1900 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Three |
Locations Served: | LaNana
Nacogdoches |
Counties of Operation: | Nacogdoches |
Line Connections: | |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | Three and a half miles of narrow gauge rails, a small locomotive, and log cars. |
History: | The company mill of Bermea Land and Lumber was located on sixty acres of the Kirby Grant. Its tram road, the East West Texas Railway Company, is identified in a deed record of January 10, 1899.
Tram equipment consisted of three and a half miles of narrow gauge rails, a small locomotive, and log cars, from a deed of trust record of March 1899.
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