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1919 map of the railroad. The Groveton, Lufkin and Northern Railway (GL&N) was a standard gauge U.S. shortline railroad located in East Texas. Originally chartered on May 15, 1908, as the Texas Northern Railway Company, it changed its name on August 17, 1908. On December 1, 1908, the GL&N purchased the 21-mile (34 km) private logging railroad ...
The Angelina and Neches River Railroad ( reporting mark ANR) (Angelina & Neches River Railroad) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Lufkin, Texas . ANR operates an 11.6 miles (18.7 km) line from Dunagan, Texas, to an interchange with Union Pacific Railroad at Lufkin. With all owned tracks combined, the company owns and operates 28 miles ...
48-45072 [ 4] exp. GNIS feature ID. 1382208 [ 2] Website. cityoflufkin .com. Lufkin is the largest city in Angelina County, Texas, United States and is the county seat. The city is situated in Deep East Texas and is 60 mi (97 km) west of the Texas- Louisiana state line. Its population is 34,143 as of 2020.
Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas: ATSF: 1927 1948 ... Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Lufkin, Hemphill and Gulf Railway: LH&G 1912 1937 N/A
The company was incorporated on July 24, 1900, under the laws of Texas for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from Lufkin to Newton, Tex. The company owned and operated a single-track, standard-gauge, railroad between Lufkin and Monterey, about 22 miles, with 4 miles under construction east of Monterey at date of demise.
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
The property of the Texas and Louisiana Railway was acquired and merged on July 2, 1903. In 1948 the St. Louis Southwestern of Texas operated a total of 856.82 miles of track. The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized St. Louis Southwestern Railway to lease the Texas company in December 1953. The lease was entered into on March 1, 1954 to ...
Battles/wars. Vietnam War. Arthur " Buddy " Temple III (January 26, 1942 – April 14, 2015) was a businessman from Lufkin, Texas, who served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives and on the Texas Railroad Commission. He failed in a bid for his party's gubernatorial nomination in 1982 . Temple was born to the wealthy lumberman ...