Texas, Arkansas, & Louisiana Railway
The citizens of Atlanta, in Cass County, disturbed at the Texas & Pacific, and prompted by the Kansas City Southern, which promised liberal divisions, built a seven and a half mile road from Atlanta to Bloomburg in 1897. It was incorporated on September 4, 1897. Although KCS supported the roadway, financially the company was not worth the while, and it the railroad was abandoned in 1918.
F. M. Greene, of Atlanta, had an interest in the railroad by 1906. He may have been a owner or co-owner in one of the local sawmills, for the American Lumberman Industrial Statistics List of Steam Logging Roads, in 1906, notes that the TA&L, operated a standard gauge logging road with two locomotive and two cars.
John D. Hanes noted that that one of the road’s locomotives was called The Dummy because it did not have a whistle.
Code
211
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Incorporated:
Yes
Ownership:
Citizens of Atlanta, Cass County
Years of Operation:
1897 to 1918
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Locations Served:
From Atlanta seven and one-half miles to Bloomburg, on the tracks of the Kansas City Southern Cass
Counties of Operation:
Cass
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Equipment:
AL (1906): standard gauge, two locomotives, two cars
Keeling: two rod locomotives, eight miles of track
History:
The citizens of Atlanta, in Cass County, disturbed at the Texas & Pacific, and prompted by the Kansas City Southern, which promised liberal divisions, built a seven and a half mile road from Atlanta to Bloomburg in 1897. It was incorporated on September 4, 1897. Although KCS supported the roadway, financially the company was not worth the while, and it the railroad was abandoned in 1918.
F. M. Greene, of Atlanta, had an interest in the railroad by 1906. He may have been a owner or co-owner in one of the local sawmills, for the American Lumberman Industrial Statistics List of Steam Logging Roads, in 1906, notes that the TA&L, operated a standard gauge logging road with two locomotive and two cars.
John D. Hanes noted that that one of the road’s locomotives was called The Dummy because it did not have a whistle.