| History: | The only Hartburg mill that appeared in the Southern Lumberman's 1928 directory of sawmills was that of the Hartburg Lumber Company, a 40,000 board feet per day circular sawmill plant. It operated a nine-mile logging tram from the woods to the Hartburg mill adjacent to the tracks of the Kansas City Southern.
The Hartburg Lumber Company operated three steam locomotives on its tram road. The No 1 was the former Barber Lumber Co #1, which earlier had operated on the Bernice Lumber Company's tram road, the Bernice and Northwestern Railway in Louisiana.
Keeling noted only two locomotives, one rod and one geared.
[This may have been the old Black Bayou Railway Company of the Southern Lumber Company (earlie the Barber Lumber Company). Hartburg Lumber eventually succeeded to the Barber Lumber sawmill plant]
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