Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Garyville Northern Railroad

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Location and general description of property.—The railroad of the Garyville Northern Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad located in Louisiana, extending from a connection with the logging railroad of the Lyon Lumber Company, about 2 miles southeast of Whitehall, in a northerly direction to Livingston, a distance of 18.727 miles. The carrier also owns 2.758 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 21.485 miles of all tracks owned. The carrier is an industrial railroad, controlled in the interest of the Lyon Lumber Company. The principal traffic is lumber and forest products, the bulk of which is furnished by the controlling industry.


CORPORATE HISTORY

The carrier was incorporated June 4, 1915, under the general laws of the State of Louisiana, for the purpose of acquiring a line of railroad [?] owned by the Lyon Lumber Company [?]