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Code:

261

Corporate Name:

Chester Lumber Company tram road

Folk Name:

Incorporated:

Ownership:

Chester Lumber Company

Years of Operation:

1928

Track Type:

Standard Gauge

Wooden Rails

Track Length:

Locations Served:

Hampton, Chester Tyler

Counties of Operation:

Tyler

Line Connections:

Track Information:

Tram Road

Logging / Industrial

Common Carrier

Logging Camp

Equipment:

Unknown

History:

The Southern Lumberman's Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills, 5th ed., in 1928 noted that the Chester Lumber Company, at Hampton, Tyler County, was cutting 35,000 feet daily of longleaf and shortleaf pine. It also operated a tram road. Keeling noted the Chester Lumber Company tram road at Chester.