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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 ...
Lufkin was founded in 1884 and named for Abraham P. Lufkin. It originally served as a stop on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It was officially incorporated on October 15, 1890. Lufkin continued to serve as a stop on the railroad until 1890.
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 ...
Bryan and College Interurban Railway. Bryan–College Traction Company. Dallas Southern Traction Company. Denison and Sherman Railway. Eastern Texas Electric Company. Fort Worth Southern Traction Company. Galveston–Houston Electric Railway. Houston North Shore Railway. Jefferson County Traction Company.
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 ...
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 ...
texasstaterailroad.net. The Texas State Railroad, also referred to as the Lone Star and Eastern Railroad, is a historic 25 mi (40 km) heritage railroad between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Built by inmates, it was founded in 1883 by the state of Texas to haul raw materials for a smelter at the prison at Rusk. Regular service on the line was ended ...
The logging trains of the Lufkin Land and Lumber Company use the line of the Southwestern of Texas between Lufkin and White City, Tex., for which privilege that company paid $4,566.20 during the year ending June 30, 1915, at the rate of 20 cents per train-mile. Predecessor Companies THE ST. LOUIS, ARKANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY IN TEXAS