Code: | 55 |
Corporate Name: | DeKalb & Red River Railway Company |
Folk Name: | |
Incorporated: | |
Ownership: | DeKalb Lumber Company. T. L. L. Temple of the Southern Pine Lumber Company |
Years of Operation: | 1891 to 1898 or 1899 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Eleven or twelve |
Locations Served: | DeKalb to Maysville (Marysville) |
Counties of Operation: | Bowie |
Line Connections: | Texas & Pacific at DeKalb |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | One locomotive in 1899 |
History: | Reed reports that the railway company received a charter in November 1891 to operate as a common carrier railroad. It had been operating as a tram road from DeKalb to Lennox, Texas, with a branch to Mooresville, in Bowie County, from De Kalb. The Railroad Commission of Texas recognized the railway company as a common carrier in 1891. In 1894, the trackage was extended to Maysville (Zlatkovich notes the name as “Marysville”), making more than twelve miles of railroad trackage. Reed believes that railway operations ceased in 1898 because it was no longer profitable. Zlatkovich reports that the 11.47 mile road from De Kalb to Marysville was abandoned in 1899.
The American Lumberman noted in April 1899 that the DeKalb Lumber Company at DeKalb with its mill, railroad and locomotive was purchased by T. L. L. Temple of Southern Pine Lumber Company. |