Pine Grove Lumber Company tram road
Keith Richards operated a tram road that supported logging operations for his sawmill community at Alonzo (Alonso) in Walker County. The road was narrow-gauge, consisting of three miles of twenty-pound tracks. Rolling stock included a seventeen-ton, narrow-gauge Davenport locomotive and an unspecified number of tram cars, probably no more than eight or ten.
The tram road would have been located into the local pineries of Walker County, and possibly Montgomery County. The mill itself was located adjacent to the tracks of the International & Great Northern, 3,300 feet south of Mile Post 97 south of New Waverly on ten acres of W. F. Spiller survey.
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151
Corporate Name:
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Incorporated:
Ownership:
Pine Grove Lumber Company, a subdivisionof Big Tree Lumber Company. Bought from Keith Richards in 1907.
Years of Operation:
Ca. 1900 to 1910
Track Type:
Track Type:
Track Length:
Three miles
Locations Served:
Alonzo or Alonso
Walker
Counties of Operation:
Walker and possibly Montgomery counites.
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Equipment:
1907: a three mile narrow-gauge tram road of twenty-pound rails, a narrow-gauge seventeen-ton Davenport locomotive, tram cars, and 10,500 crossties.
History:
Keith Richards operated a tram road that supported logging operations for his sawmill community at Alonzo (Alonso) in Walker County. The road was narrow-gauge, consisting of three miles of twenty-pound tracks. Rolling stock included a seventeen-ton, narrow-gauge Davenport locomotive and an unspecified number of tram cars, probably no more than eight or ten.
The tram road would have been located into the local pineries of Walker County, and possibly Montgomery County. The mill itself was located adjacent to the tracks of the International & Great Northern, 3,300 feet south of Mile Post 97 south of New Waverly on ten acres of W. F. Spiller survey.