History: | Felix Anderson Talley, a member of a noted sawmilling family of Montgomery County, owned several sawmills. His most successful one was located at Keenan, several miles west of Conroe with rail connections to the Gulf, Coast, & Santa Fe, and the International & Great Northern. The mill, and presumably the tram operations in some form, operated from about 1900 to 1915, when Talley lost the facility due to a defaulted loan.
The sherrif's sale revealed that the tram equipment consisted of twelve miles of track, a 32-ton Shay, a 20-ton Shay, and 26 log cars.
Keeling noted that Talley & Company at Keenan operated a tram road with one narrow gauge rod locomotive. |