Code: | 164 |
Corporate Name: | Oden Lumber Company tram road |
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Ownership: | J. M. and M. E. Oden |
Years of Operation: | 1907 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Ten |
Locations Served: | Flanagan
Rusk
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Counties of Operation: | Rusk and Panola |
Line Connections: | |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | 1907: a ten-mile steel tramroad, a locomotive, five log cars, a hand car, a push car, etc., at Boren.
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History: | J. M. and M. E. Oden operated a sawmill at Flanagan, in Rusk County, after 1900. Their tram road ran from Flanagan for twelve miles to Boren in Panola County. In January, 1907, it consisted of a ten-mile steel tramroad, a locomotive, five log cars, a hand car, a push car, etc., at Boren. The sawmill was located at Flanagan.
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