Name/Title
The Original Crowell & Spencer Tramway 1895-1906Entry/Object ID
2021.1.19Tags
Library, Map, Public, Railroad, Railway, Red River & Gulf Railroad, Crowell Lumber Co.sScope and Content
research compilation of the original Crowell & Spencer (1895-1906) tramway and the west end of the Red River & Gulf Railroad (1906-1912); complied by Everett LueckContext
tramway that was built by the Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co. before the Red River & Gulf Railroad existedCollection
Everett Lueck Collection & ResearchAcquisition
Accession
2021.1Source or Donor
Everett LueckAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
*title of entry*, The Everett Lueck Collection & Research, *Accession Number*, *Exhibit Title (if it's being displayed)*, Southern Forest Heritage Museum, Long Leaf, LA.Archive Details
Creator
Everett LueckDate(s) of Creation
1895 - 1912Date(s) Material Assembled
Feb 2021Archive Size/Extent
2.12 MBPrimary Language
EnglishArchive Items Details
Title
The Original Crowell & Spencer Tramway 1895-1906Description
has been a mystery as where the woods tramway was for the Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co. in Long Leaf; few clues on it heading south from the Long Leaf Mill, the Red River & Gulf Railroad tracks going further to Kelley, Ashmore, and Osborn, newspaper accounts of a tram road from Long Leaf to Lecompte and to a photo of a shay #1 on an unknown line; the Alexandria Town Talk mentions a tramway, and it was not welled liked and had many accidents happen upon it; looking at railroad maps if the early 1900s when the Red River & Gulf Railroad began operations and where it went; railway schedules in the Official Guide of the Railways clearly show show how far south the Red River & Gulf Railroad was going but those tracks didn't belong to the RR&G; by 1912 service to Ashmore and beyond to Osborn ends; Lueck then gives a detail explanation of his research and how it came to be and where he thinks the lost Crowell tramway was; uses a Lidar map and self made Google Earth map on where he thinks the tramway ranCreator
Everett LueckDate(s) of Creation
Feb 2021Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
PDFOther Name
Original Crowell TramOther Numbers
Number Type
DriveOther Number
SFHM.Lueck.2021.Drive.001Research Notes
Person
Rachel BlomquistDate
Feb 17, 2021Notes
The storm mentioned are the winter storms of Feb 2021, Uri and Viola; Lueck at the time lives in TX
