Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 364
Corporate Name: Louisiana East and Central Texas Railway Company
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Ownership: E. A. Blount, A. B. Blevins, B. D. Wettermark, John Schmidt, W. P. Mimms, P. A. Blakey, Jonathan T. Garrison, E. C. Branch, Giles R. Crane, and Roland Jones
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Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
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Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
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History: E. A. Blount, A. B. Blevins, B. D. Wettermark, John Schmidt, W. P. Mimms, P. A. Blakey, Jonathan T. Garrison, E. C. Branch, Giles R. Crane, and Roland Jones incorporated the Louisiana East and Central Texas Railway Company on 14 December 1888. The intent was to build a road from the Texas-Louisiana border through Nacogdoches to Fort Worth. The project never got off the ground. Sixteen years later, William Kennedy of Austin, on behalf of Charles P. Scriviner, D. A. McFall, W. P. Allen, and G. W. Allen, took his clients' claims against the LC&ET and the RRS&W to court and won. The land was then sold to the N&SE for $500.