Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code:	143
Corporate Name:	Durham Transportation Company
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership:	A. Harris.
Years of Operation:	1906 to 1908
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:	Seventeen
Locations Served:	Tyler Smith
Counties of Operation:	Smith, Harrison
Line Connections:	Several at Tyler
Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:
History:	The Durham Transportation Company, logging for the A. Harris sawmill, located at Tyler, Smith County, was listed by the American Lumberman Industrial Statistics List of Steam Logging Roads in 1906. It may have evolved from Thomas Durham's Sweetgum, Yubadam, & Hoo Hoo railway of the previous decade. Louis Lipshitz was listed as president. Durham Transportation company sold a Baldwin locomotive to the Chronister Lumber Company sawmill at Wildhurst in 1908 for $8,200. [L. Lipshitz and A. Harris, the former's son-in-law, were the primary stockholders in Chronister.] Keeling lists the Durham Transportation Company as the Chronister Lumber Company logging tram road at Wildhurst and Forest, Cherokee County, with three rod locomotives and twenty-seven miles of track.