Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code:	59
Corporate Name:	Northeast Texas Railway Company , rfd to as North Texas Railway Company
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership:	Red Water Lumber Company with Gus Munz
Years of Operation:	1899 to 1908
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:	Eighteen miles
Locations Served:	Red Water
Counties of Operation:	The Bowie County shortline ran a little more than eighteen miles to the community of Munz in Cass County
Line Connections:
Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
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History:	The Red Water Lumber Company of Gus Munz operated a band sawmill in Red Water, southwest of Texarkana, in Bowie County, beginning about 1899. With connections to the St. Louis & Southwestern, Munz's tramline ran for more than eighteen miles to Munz, in Cass County, from Redwater, in Boiwe County. In 1902, the logging tram was chartered as a common carrier named the Northeast Texas Railway Company. The Railroad Commission of Texas dropped its recognition in 1908. Zlatkovich reports that the road had been abandoned in 1907. The timber at Munz had probably been cut out by 1907, and the Red Water Lumber Company dismantled and went away. A Cass County Deed of Trust record in 1906 refers to the Munz shortline as the North Texsa Railway Company.