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| Attraction: |
Moscow, Camden and San Augustine RR : Texas Historical
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| County: |
Polk |
| City: |
Camden |
| Website: |
http://tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/eqm9.html |
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| Description |
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The line from Moscow to Camden, a distance of seven miles, was
built for the railroad by the WT Carter Lumber Company in 1899.
Carter moved his operations to Camden where he had extensive timber
holdings after a fire destroyed his sawmill at Barnum in 1897. The
railroad connected the mill with the Houston East and West Texas
Railway Company at Moscow. Although chartered to run as far east
as San Augustine, the company only extended a short distance east
of Camden where it intersected a tram line that brought logs from
Camp Ruby. This connection formed a Y, which allowed the locomotives
to be turned. Until 1960 the Moscow end had a turntable that allowed
the locomotive to be unhooked on top of a hill, the brakes on the
cars would be released after the engine was turned around and would
coast back down the hill to the depot. In 1968 the Carter family
sold the sawmill, timber lands, and railroad to what was then United
States Plywood-Champions Paper, Incorporated. The railroad remains
an active subsidiary of that company now known as Georgia-Pacific. Marker is located at the railroad depot, intersection
of FM 62 and FM 942.
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