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Code:

224

Corporate Name:

Summers & Bro

Folk Name:

Incorporated:

Ownership:

Summers & Bro with J. H. Summers

Years of Operation:

1895 to 1900

Track Type:

Standard Gauge

Wooden Rails

Track Length:

Unknown

Locations Served:

Royal Nacogdoches

Counties of Operation:

Nacogdoches

Line Connections:

Track Information:

Tram Road

Logging / Industrial

Common Carrier

Logging Camp

Equipment:

Shay tram engine, four tram cars

History:

J. H. Summers & Bro mill south of Nacogdoches is identified as Royal, about three miles south of Nacogdoches. Besides the sawmill plant, property also included a planer, an edger, a Shay tram engine, four tram cars, a commissary, and twenty-four tenant houses.