Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code:	150
Corporate Name:	T. F. Mowery Lumber Companytram road
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Incorporated:
Ownership:	W. S Cochran. C. J. McCarty. T. F. Mowry Lumber Co. E. A. Oualline.
Years of Operation:	1920s
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:	Five miles
Locations Served:	Phelps Walker
Counties of Operation:	Walker
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Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:	1925: a narrow-gauge steam locomotive #3609, ten narrow-gauge log cars, a Ford motor car with tram wheels, three 8-wheel log wagons.
History:	T. F. Mowery Lumber Company at Phelps operated a five-mile narrow-gauge tram road in Walker County. It passed through the hands of Mowery's partner, C. J. McCarty, to the ownership of W. S. Cochran. Walker County Bills of Sale. Vol 1, April 17, 1925. 278-280, 281. Vol 1, September 29, 1925. 286. Phelps Lumber Company operated a sawmill at Phelps in 1945. This mill had previously belonged to E. A. Oualline, who had sold it to T. F. Mowery Lumber Company in 1924. The next year Mowery had defaulted on the note, and E. A. Oualline did take back a locomotive, ten log cars, a knife grinder, a ford motor car which operates with tram wheels on tram roads, and three log wagons.” Oualline did not take back the sawmill. E. A. Oualline conveyed the equipment back to C. J. McCarty on a new note the same day. The following September W. S. Cochran became a partner, possibly a majority partner, with McCarty and O'Leary. Ellis A. Oualline came from a noted Montgomery County sawmilling family of East Texas. He had owned a sawmill at Jasper in 1918, Bobbin in 1904, and later would own a sawmill at Willis.