Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 366
Corporate Name: Central Coal & Coke Company
Folk Name: 4-C
Incorporated:
Ownership: Central Coal & Coke Company. Bowie Lumber Company.
Years of Operation: 1888 to 1902
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length: Unknown
Locations Served: Texarkana Bowie
Counties of Operation: Bowie and possibly in Miller County, Arkansas
Line Connections: St Louis Southwestern and the Texas & Pacific at Texarkana
Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment: Unknown
History: Central Coal & Coke Company (4-C) undoubtedly operated a tram road in support of the lumber plant in bought in 1893 at Texarkana from Bowie Lumber Company. Increasing cutting capacity more than four-fold to 175,000 board feet per day, the company would have to have had access to a ready supply of lumber. It is also known that the company operated tram roads at its plants at Kennard and Conroe in Texas and Carson and Neame in Louisiana.