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- Globe Lumber Company, Ltd. Sold to Robert A. Long in 1898. A lot of interesting history surrounding Yellow Pine, Louisiana, Webster Parish. Source: Source: American Lumberman. "From Tree to Trade in Yellow Pine." American Lumberman, July 2, 1904, 47-116. Chicago: American Lumberman, 1904.
- Sibley, Lake Bistineau & Southern Railway (SLB&S). Owned by Robert A. Long a short line from Sibley, Louisiana, 28 miles to Camp Long. Originally intended to be a spur line it was used to transfer wood products and other commodities to and from pretty much all points by rail. The main terminus was at Sibley where there was a connection to the Vicksburg Shreveport & Pacific Railroad and Louisiana & Arkansas railroad (In Vidallia Across the river from that was a reorganization of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad. Overall there were forty-five miles of track that crossed two parishes and into a third. The line doubled as a traffic line for local residents.
- Long Bell Railway System. The four carrier roads of Long Bell’s railway system By 1904 there were two hundred sixty-nine cars, using seventeen locomotives.
- De Ridder & Eastern
- Woodworth & Louisiana Central
- Louisiana and Pacific
- "Arkansas and Choctaw Railway"
- "Houston, East and West Texas Railway"
- "Texas Southeastern Railroad" (Lufkin to Ratcliff, Tx)
- "Southern States Iron and Coal Company" (purchased Dunlap coke ovens in 1919 from "Douglas Coal and Coke Company")
- "Chattanooga Iron and Coal Company" purchased the Dunlap coke ovens in 1905.
- "Louisiana and Texas Lumber Company"
- "** "Chattanooga Iron and Coal Company" purchased the Dunlap coke ovens in 1905"
- "Louisiana and Texas Lumber Company" originally built at Ratcliff, Texas but issues warranted moving and creating a new lumber town called Kennard. See Richard H. Keith.
- "Bowie Lumber Company in Texarkana" (Richard H. Keith)
- Oklahoma defunct railroads
- Mississippi defunct railroads
- Louisiana defunct railroads
- Texas defunct railroads
- Arkansas defunct railroads