Code: | 256 |
Corporate Name: | Angelina County Lumber Company tram road at Jasper |
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Ownership: | Angelina County Lumber Company. Frost-Johnson Lumber Company. Jasper County Lumber Company. Kurth Manufacturing Company. |
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Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Locations Served: | Jasper |
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Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | Keeling lists one geared locomotive.
Under Kurth Manufacturing Company at Jasper, Keeling lists three geared and two rod locomotives. |
History: | Keeling lists one geared locomotive for the Angelina County Lumber Company, Jasper Division, at Jasper, tram road.
[check Ohio &Texas, Frost Johnson, Jasper County Lumber Company, and Alexander Gilmer Lumber Company, all of which were at this plant from 1905 until closed about 1960]
The Jasper County Lumber Company, according to Strapac, operated four steam locomotives on its logging tram road. Two of the engines were the former #6 and #7 of the Alexander Gilmer Lumber Company. Keeling noted that two engines: one was geared and the other a rod engine. |