Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 237
Corporate Name: C. Bender & Sons
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership: C. Bender & Sons
Years of Operation: 1883 to 1919
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length: Unknown
Locations Served: Humble (Harris)
Counties of Operation: Harris and probably Polk counties
Line Connections:
Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment: Five locomotives between 1883 to 1919
History: Strapnac's work notes that the C. Bender & Sons operation at Humble, Texas, bought at least five locomotives during a period from 1883 to 1919. The first two were narrow gauge and the others probably standard gauge. Keeling lists that Bender & Sons at Humble operated six locomotives, two geared and four rod, on a narrow gauge wooden-railed tram road.