The Pine Bough
September 2000
This special issue serves as a centennial history of Texas Southeastern Railroad. More than 140 photographs (26 in color) help document TSE’s more than one hundred years of exciting operations as an enduring East Texas shortline railroad. Articles and features include an 8-page history of TSE from its origins in the 1890s as an unincorporated logging railroad through numerous operational changes during the twentieth century, employee and officers & directors listings from company payroll records, equipment reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission, compilations of freight reports to the Texas Railroad Commission, and the last days of steam operation.
A Brief Chronicle of Texas Southeastern Railroad
2
Henry Titus Mooney: “I Left My Baby Crying in the Smoke Along the Track”
21
Engine No. 504: One Last Puff of Texas Southeastern Steam
27
Cattle Driving by Railroad
28
Working on the Railroad: Employee Lists (from Texas Southeastern Railroad Time Books, 1909-1992)
10
Color Photograph Section
22
Texas Southeastern Officers and Directors, 1900-2000
29
Equipment Reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1909-1946
33
Scrapbook Pages (a collection of locomotive and train photographs)
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