East Texas logging railroads / Murry Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Murry, 1964- author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logging railroads--Texas, East--History--Pictorial works.

Logging railroads.

Logging--Texas, East--History--Pictorial works.

Logging.

Railroads--Texas, East--History--Pictorial works.

Railroads.

Logging--Texas--History.

Texas, East--History--Pictorial works.

Texas, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over, thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built, and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed, the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned, but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.

Contents:

Early railroad logging in Texas

Logging in the North East counties

Logging in the Central East counties

Logging in the Big Thicket region

Logging in the deep South East counties

Twilight of railroad logging in Texas.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439655870

1439655871