Code: | 239 |
Corporate Name: | Bering Kiam and Southern Railroad |
Folk Name: | |
Incorporated: | |
Ownership: | Bering Kiam and Southern. Bering Lumber Company. |
Years of Operation: | 1912 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Unknown |
Locations Served: | Bering [Valda] Polk |
Counties of Operation: | Polk |
Line Connections: | Houston East and West Texas at Bering Spur |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | Shay engine |
History: | Strapnac's work notes that the W. T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company at Camden bought a Shay engine from the Bering Lumber Company in 1912. The Bering line was noted as the Bering, Kiam and Southern Railroad. Keeling also notes that the Bering Kiam and Southern Railroad was the tram road for the Bering Manufacturing Company.
According to Peebles, in A Pictorial History of Polk County, Texas, Bering had a logging camp at Pine Ridge, in Polk County.
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