| Code: | 133 |
| Corporate Name: | Angelina Hardwood Lumber Company tram road |
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| Ownership: | Originally, H. G. Bohlssen Lumber Company; later Angelina Hardwood Lumber Company. Also Bohlssen Mfg. Co. |
| Years of Operation: | 1920 to 1944 |
| Track Type: |
 Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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| Track Length: | Unknown |
| Locations Served: | Ewing Angelina |
| Counties of Operation: | Angelina |
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| Track Information: |
 Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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| Equipment: | A small locomotive on the spurs, plus a steam loader, plus oxen and mules, trucks, and two-wheeled carts. |
| History: | The Angelina Hardwood Lumber Company, located at Ewing, was a joint partnership between H. G. Bohlssen and interests from Angelina County Lumber Company. With Bohlssen's death in 1922, his Widow sold her interests to Angelina County Lumber Company and the Henderson family. The mill operated until 1944.
Tramming operations were conducted by Angelina Hardwood Company. Effie Boon reported that the company operated a small locomotive on the spurs and a steam loader. Shipping was handled by the Angelina & Neches River RR Co., the Angelina County Lumber Company tap-line. It is uncertain who owned the steam railroad equipment of the Angelina Hardwood Company, either it or its parent, Angelina County Lumber Company. It is possible the Angelina Hardwood leased it and other equipment from the A&NR. Most of the in-woods operations were handled by oxen and mules, trucks, and two-wheeled carts.
The train yard and loading docks at Ewing were dangerous. H. G. Bohlssen, the owner, was killed by sliding lumber on a loading dock, in 1922. John Franklin Davison died underneath a train at the switching yard some years later.
Keeling notes that Angelina Hardwood Company operated a logging tram, but he does not give a list of equipment. He also notes the tram road under Bohlssen Mfg. Co. of Lufkin.
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