Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code:	309
Corporate Name:	F. A. Talley & Co Tram Road at Keenan
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership:	Felix Anderson Talley
Years of Operation:	1900 to 1915
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:	Twelve
Locations Served:	Keenan (Montgomery)
Counties of Operation:	Montgomery County.
Line Connections:	Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe
Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:	1915: twelve miles of track, a 32-ton Shay, a 20-ton Shay, and 26 log cars.
History:	Felix Anderson Talley, a member of a noted sawmilling family of Montgomery County, owned several sawmills. His most successful one was located at Keenan, several miles west of Conroe with rail connections to the Gulf, Coast, & Santa Fe, and the International & Great Northern. The mill, and presumably the tram operations in some form, operated from about 1900 to 1915, when Talley lost the facility due to a defaulted loan. The sherrif's sale revealed that the tram equipment consisted of twelve miles of track, a 32-ton Shay, a 20-ton Shay, and 26 log cars. Keeling noted that Talley & Company at Keenan operated a tram road with one narrow gauge rod locomotive.