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located on FM 942 in Camden |
| ....."Texas Shortest (and one of it's oldest) "mixed"- train railroads.
Has passenger and freight cars pulled by a single engine on a seven mile
system, five days a week.
.....Chartered 1898 by timberman W. T. Carter with Texas & New Orleans Railway at Moscow. ....."Panama No. 201", now retired to Camden with other old steam engines, was used in building the Panama Canal in 1914. It was last locomotive in service here in 1965. .....Passenger Coach with original rattan seats began its career in 1898 on Long Island Railroad." |
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