| Code: | 140 |
| Corporate Name: | Kirby Lumber Company tramroad, T and H |
| Folk Name: | |
| Incorporated: |  |
| Ownership: | Kirby Lumber Company. Conn and Company. |
| Years of Operation: | |
| Track Type: |
 Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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| Track Length: | Twenty |
| Locations Served: | Kirbyville. Five miles in 1906. Jasper County. |
| Counties of Operation: | Hardin |
| Line Connections: | Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe at Kirbyville |
| Track Information: |
 Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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| Equipment: | |
| History: | The town of Kirbyville started when Kirby made it the terminus of his Gulf, Beaumont, & Kansas City tram road in 1895. He sold that road to Santa Fe in 1900. The Santa Fe bought the GB&KC and made Kirbyville its major facility in East Texas. In 1904, the Jasper & Eastern (another Santa Fe line) linked Kirbyville with Newton.
The Kirby Lumber plants at Kirbyville, identified as Mills T and H, operated until about 1917 when a fire destroyed them. They were not rebuilt. The logging operations for these plants were conducted locally. In 1906, according to the American Lumberman, the tram road consisted of five miles and the rolling stock of one locomotive. Keeling notes that the company operated twenty miles of tram road. |