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!
@TyTytheTrainGuy2 жыл бұрын
Louisiana is without a doubt full of hidden gems especially the T&GRY, nice job documenting this underrated railroad.
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Thanks for watching.
@tomcaldwell47682 жыл бұрын
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.
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing that! Love getting to hear stories like this! Footnote: Ever Loyal Be!
@caseyjones7459 ай бұрын
Great collection of informative information. Thank you.
@DelayInBlockProductions2 жыл бұрын
AMAZING video. 10/10!
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate it!
@thehamelsduck16002 жыл бұрын
Really great job making this video. Yet another short line I had no idea ever existed. Thanks
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate you watching!
@Jason-Rose2 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video, Bishop!
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jason!
@unionpacificomaha2 жыл бұрын
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!
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Brianrockrailfan2 жыл бұрын
great video 🚂👍🚃sad to 😢
@CrossfellRailwayVideos2 жыл бұрын
Tremendous! Thanks to both of you for that!
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate it!
@kcsthebetterway2 жыл бұрын
T&G was a classic back woods RR!
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@BSRC3182 жыл бұрын
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.
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
The SLB&S is added to the list! L&A is already on the list as well!
@SlaterDozierRailroadMedia2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done as always!
@AMPProductionsVideo2 жыл бұрын
Great job putting this video together
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@donaldboyett76829 ай бұрын
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.
@astrarailphotography2 жыл бұрын
man you gotta come down to the new orleans area. theres like 5 railroads down here
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Hoping to snag NOPB and NO&GC down there in the summer hopefully.
@astrarailphotography2 жыл бұрын
@@LouisianaRailProductions be sure to check out the northshore as well! its alot safer.
@75Bird4552 жыл бұрын
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.
@killersopinion18292 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video Bishop! Can't wait to see the next installment!
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks as always!
@JacquesDufrene2 жыл бұрын
Loved the video, why not come down to the Southern Forest Heritage Museum and do a video on the Red River and Gulf Railroad?
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
I've gotten in contact with them and will be going down there. Unfortunately, just gotta find the time to head down.
@JacquesDufrene2 жыл бұрын
@@LouisianaRailProductions if you can let me know when, I'm always out there volunteering
@everettlueck19302 жыл бұрын
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
@everettlueck19302 жыл бұрын
For the record, your opening sawmill and shay shots are from the Southern Forest Heritage Museum archives.
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
Yessir, I hope to get down there in the near future.
@Loudmouth1934 Жыл бұрын
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_III2 жыл бұрын
Where did you find the as built picture of 25?
@LouisianaRailProductions2 жыл бұрын
It was in Steam Locomotives and Railroad Tradition issue 6.
@outlawriderandoubletrouble Жыл бұрын
Have you done a video on the Marshall and Easy Texas RR?