Code: | 97 |
Corporate Name: | Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company |
Folk Name: | |
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Ownership: | Williams-Hicks Lumber Company. Lone Star Lumber Company. Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company |
Years of Operation: | 1900 to 1940 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Several miles |
Locations Served: | Magnolia and Tamina
(Montgomery) |
Counties of Operation: | Montgomery, Waller. |
Line Connections: | Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe at Magnolia |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | 1920s: three locomotives, a steam “jenny,” a small engine, and twelve to fifteen flat cars. |
History: | The Company logged in Waller County and used a company tram operation to get the logs to the mill: three locomotives, a steam “jenny,” a small engine, and twelve to fifteen flat cars. The company was subseqently sold to the Lone Star Lumber Company in 1925 (J. T. Wurtzbaugh, president) and Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company in 1928.
Keeling noted that Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company at Tamina and Magnolia had a tram road.
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