Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 234
Corporate Name: Morgan Brothers
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership: T. C. and J. H. Morgan
Years of Operation: 1893 to 1894
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length: Seven
Locations Served: Big Sandy Wood
Counties of Operation: Upshur and Wood
Line Connections:
Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment: Shay engine, thirteen logging cars, box car, two hand cars, fifty-two oxen
History: T. C. and J. H. Morgan of Hunt County mortgaged various lands plus their sawmill and planing mill in 1884. The mills were located about one-half mile southwest of Big Sandy, between the Cotton Belt and the Texas & Pacific tracks. The mills were steam powered. Morgan Brothers provided tenant housing, owned fifty-two work oxen. They operated seven miles of tram road with a shay engine, a box car, thirteen log cars. Two hand cars. A mule and two wagons.