CORPORATE RECORDS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE TREMONT & GULF RAILWAY COMPANY. VOL. I.

Chicago, Illinois, 1908. Tall 8vo. Contemporary pale cloth, with title stamped on spine. [6], 338 pp, with folding plates that are included in the pagination. Binding dusted, text and plates clean. Very Good.

President William Joyce informs, "The Tremont & Gulf Railway Company is the outgrowth of the Tremont & Gulf Railroad, which in its initial stages was merely a logging road, with rather poor grades and alignment." He proudly recounts the Company's development.
"The storied Tremont & Gulf Railway began life in 1902, when it laid rails from a Tremont Lumber Company railhead 9 miles from the town of Tremont to Winnfield, (truncated) Louisiana, some 40 miles to the south. Various small expansions occurred up through 1908, when the original company (the Tremont & Gulf Railroad) went into foreclosure. The T&G Railway emerged as successor and promptly completed another branch of 20 miles. The shortline served a timber - rich region situated amid the mainlines of several prominent Louisiana carriers: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Illinois Central; Louisiana & Arkansas; Missouri Pacific. Nevertheless, despite these advantages, the pike lost money throughout its existence" [web site of Hawkins Rails online].
The Railway's original records, "which had been found to be more or less incomplete and scattered," are organized, compiled, and printed here.
OCLC 817757631 [1- SMU] as of March 2025. (Inventory #: 40807)