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Model Railroad Index Excursions Seneca Stone Cutting Mill

Railroads in Laurel, MS

a speech by Sam Lindsey, Jr. delivered before the

Daughters of American Revolution on November 15, 1994

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Railroads in Laurel, MS page 1

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Lindsey Lumber Company

St. Marys Railroad

Story of Bogalusa

Gulf & Ship Island RR

Saratoga: A logging Town

Old Boss

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Tree that won a Loco

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The Gulf and Ship Island RR purchased the line from Laurel to Cohay [Mize] and extended it to Saratoga, MS where it tied in with their main line. Eastman Gardiner used the track for their log trains. By 1903 Eastman Gardiner owned 180,000 acres of Yellow Pine timber. That same year, they shipped 3,350 carloads of lumber over the G&S I RR. The peak year was 1911 when the G&S I RR shipped 360 million board feet of lumber through the port of Gulfport, MS.


School at Rogers Camp. Cameras weren't that common, so you wonder what they are looking at.	School at Rogers Camp. Notice that even the trees around the school are harvested.	Eastman Gardiner Lbr Co.. in Jones County in later 1890s. Notice the camp cars behind the Shay on the left. Shay #2 (l) & #3 (r) both have the sheds.

Eastman Gardiner Lbr Co. log camp: Rogers Camp		Saratoga Depot where the branch line met the main line

On July 1, 1925, the Illinois Central RR purchased the line of the G&S I RR from Gulfport to Jackson for the sum of 5 million dollars cash and assumed the debt of 3 million dollars.

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