The Tremont & Gulf Railway: "What Once Was..."

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Again huge thanks to Ralph Hawkins for supplying much of the information and photos used. Be sure to check out his site HawkinsRails.net. If you want the pair of T&G survivors in action today, check out my several videos on the Texas State Railroad!

[@TyTytheTrainGuy]

Louisiana is without a doubt full of hidden gems especially the T&GRY, nice job documenting this underrated railroad.

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Absolutely. Thanks for watching.

[@tomcaldwell4768]

Great video, Bishop, I think one of your best. Of particular interest to me because in the summer of 1959 my father, who was one of the executives at the Brown Paper Mill, got me a job in the finishing room of the mill. One of the things I had to do was load box cars with what we called counter rolls of paper. Those are rolls 9 inches in diameter and of various widths that are used usually in stores for wrapping small packages. The really big rolls, like 6 feet in diameter were loaded on another dock, and required more skill than our group of stupid college kids had. The funniest thing I got to do was to take the "switch list" out to the rail yard to let them know they should come get our full cars. (I didn't get to do this very often because one or two of the old guys wanted the opportunity to get out of the mill so they could smoke.) I well remember seeing a couple of steam engines, which I assume were on the T&G sitting in the yard, waiting for orders. I also loved it when they came into the mill to grab the cars. While I was a rail fan at the time, I was not a very good one and made no pictures or notes of anything. So I don't know if any of the locomotives I saw were #30. It would have been nice to have had a cell phone. Footnote: by the end of that summer I was ready to get back to LaTech and do some serious studying so I could eventually get a job in an air-conditioned office and not have to face the heat of the paper mill for the rest of my life.

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Thanks for sharing that! Love getting to hear stories like this! Footnote: Ever Loyal Be!

[@caseyjones745]

Great collection of informative information. Thank you.

[@DelayInBlockProductions]

AMAZING video. 10/10!

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Appreciate it!

[@thehamelsduck1600]

Really great job making this video. Yet another short line I had no idea ever existed. Thanks

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Appreciate you watching!

[@Jason-Rose]

Outstanding video, Bishop!

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Thanks Jason!

[@unionpacificomaha]

This was very fascinating to learn about, you did a great job presenting this information! I really enjoyed it! Thanks for teaching us about the history of these near roads, keep ‘em up please!

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Thanks!

[@Brianrockrailfan]

great video 🚂👍🚃sad to 😢

[@CrossfellRailwayVideos]

Tremendous! Thanks to both of you for that!

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Appreciate it!

[@kcsthebetterway]

T&G was a classic back woods RR!

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Absolutely!

[@BSRC318]

Fantastic video! Id have two rail lines Id like to see covered like this in a video. The old L&A line between Sibley and Winnfield, which is now the Louisiana Trails used by ATV's. And the Sibley, Lake Bistineau, & Southern.

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

The SLB&S is added to the list! L&A is already on the list as well!

[@SlaterDozierRailroadMedia]

Nicely done as always!

[@AMPProductionsVideo]

Great job putting this video together

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Thanks!

[@donaldboyett7682]

The Shreveport, Jonesboro and Natchez was built from Jonesboro and Sikes by the South Arkansas Lumber Company. This line was sold to the Tremont Lumber Company April, 3 1906 and became the Jonesboro branch of the Tremont and Gulf. The SJ&N and the South Arkansas Lumber Company was built by mostly the same men who built the Arkansas Southern. After the Rock Island acquisition of the Arkansas Southern they built the SJN and the Lumber Mill in Jonesboro. Charles E. Neely was president of the company and he had held several offices with the Arkansas Southern Railroad. I have the conveyence records of the sale to the Tremont Lumber Company.

[@astrarailphotography]

man you gotta come down to the new orleans area. theres like 5 railroads down here

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Hoping to snag NOPB and NO&GC down there in the summer hopefully.

[@astrarailphotography]

@@LouisianaRailProductions be sure to check out the northshore as well! its alot safer.

[@75Bird455]

I grew up in Choudrant, not three miles from what once was Tremont (pronounced there as Tree-mont). Unfortunately what I'm assuming was a town in its on right, is all but grown over.

[@killersopinion1829]

Fantastic video Bishop! Can't wait to see the next installment!

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Thanks as always!

[@JacquesDufrene]

Loved the video, why not come down to the Southern Forest Heritage Museum and do a video on the Red River and Gulf Railroad?

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

I've gotten in contact with them and will be going down there. Unfortunately, just gotta find the time to head down.

[@JacquesDufrene]

@@LouisianaRailProductions if you can let me know when, I'm always out there volunteering

[@everettlueck1930]

If you plan on going to Long Leaf and the museum there, please contact me before you go as I have all of the historical materials that you might want to use. Everett Lueck

[@everettlueck1930]

For the record, your opening sawmill and shay shots are from the Southern Forest Heritage Museum archives.

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

Yessir, I hope to get down there in the near future.

[@Loudmouth1934]

My only wish is you'd reached out to me before I moved half way across the country, I worked at the mill in West Monroe with the very last bit of T&G traffic known, my Grandpa worked there most of his life and remembered 30 when I took him to the TSRR several years ago as well

[@TGM_2018_III]

Where did you find the as built picture of 25?

[@LouisianaRailProductions]

It was in Steam Locomotives and Railroad Tradition issue 6.

[@outlawriderandoubletrouble]

Have you done a video on the Marshall and Easy Texas RR?