Code: | 142 |
Corporate Name: | Bivins Lumber Company tram road |
Folk Name: | |
Incorporated: | |
Ownership: | Bivins Lumber Company |
Years of Operation: | 1900 to 1929 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Three |
Locations Served: | Tally, Kildare, James
Cass |
Counties of Operation: | Harrison, Cass |
Line Connections: | |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | Four locomotives |
History: | The American Lumberman reported, in 1906, that the Bivins Lumber Company had a logging railroad at Tally, Harrison County. It was three miles long, had one more mile under construction, and had rolling stock of one Shay and eight logging cars. Strapnac's work notes that the Frank Bivins Lumber Company of Bivins/James bought at least four Lima locomotives between 1900 and 1905.
The last one was sold in 1929 to Clark & Boice Lumber Company. Keeling lists for Frank Bivens Lumber Company at Kildare/James one geared and three rod steam locomotives operating over a wooden-railed tram road. |