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Code: 161
Corporate Name: Morse-Johnson Lumber Company tram road
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership: J. M. Morse, President
Years of Operation:
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length: Twenty
Locations Served: Conroe Montgomery
Counties of Operation:
Line Connections: International & Great Northern, and the Santa Fe
Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:
History: 20-mile logging road The Morse-Johnson Lumber Company had a sawmill at or near Conroe from about 1919 to no later than 1933. J. M. Morse was its president. In 1919, he bought a Danforth locomotive from the Sabine Tram Company of Beaumont for $1,500. The Southern Lumberman's Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mill, 5th edition, reported that “Morse-Johnston” was still operating at Conroe and milling about 40,000 feet daily.