Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 125
Corporate Name: Aldridge Lumber Company tram road at Aldridge
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership: Aldridge Lumber Company
Years of Operation: 1907 to WWI
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length: Unkown
Locations Served: Aldridge Jasper
Counties of Operation: Jasper and Newton
Line Connections:
Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:
History: In 1908, Aldridge Lumber Company mortgaged for steel rails, angle joints, and spikes. In 1907, Aldridge Lumber purchased a locomotive and tender for $3,150. Aldridge's d value on its tram road and equipment combined was $6,500, including six miles of road in 1908, according to Form E, “Assessment of Railroads, Street Railroads, . .”, etc. In 1909, the tax roll showed only three and three quarters miles of tram roads, but the value had gone up to $8,375. The county tax roll for that year revealed that Aldridge Lumber owned twenty-four horses and mules, eighteen cattle, and six wagons. In 1910, the county chattel mortgage register recorded that Aldridge Lumber Company mortgaged to Geo. M. Dilley & Son for tram building equipment: to wit, 376 steel rails, joints and twenty-one keys and spikes. The purchase price was $1,556.75.