Salmen Brick & Lumber Co.
Slidell & Bayou LaCombe Railroad
Standard gauge, 56-lb rail Headquarters: Slidell, LA Mill Location: Slidell, LA (St. Tammany Parish) Mill Capacity: 100,000 ft/day in 1916 Years of Operation: by 1906-1922 Miles Operated: 16 miles in 1910 Locomotives Owned: |
Equipment: 1907: 14 miles + 4 miles under
construction, 2 locomotives, 1 McGiffert loader. 1910: 16 miles + 8 miles under construction, 3 locomotives, 60 cars, 1 McGiffert loader.
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History by Tony Howe: The
Salmen Brothers, Fritz, Jacob and Albert, relocated from Handsboro, MS to
Slidell and opened a large brick plant on the west side of town in the
1880's. They later built a sawmill adjacent to the brick plant in 1890. A
new double band sawmill was built in 1915-16 that had a 100,000 ft per day
capacity. The original logging railroad ran north-northwest from the mill in
west Slidell, crossing the NOGN Shore Line Branch at Bonfouca. Logging spurs
were built off of the NOGN between Covington and Folsom, LA, and the company
had trackage rights on the NOGN to run log trains to the mill at Slidell. |
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Salmen's log camp near Red Bluff in 1916. |
Another view at the Salmen logging camp. |
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Salmen Brick & Lumber 2-6-0 No. 12 at Slidell. |
Builder's view of Alco 2-6-0 No. 12 in 1914. |
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Photo of Salmen 10 (2-truck Shay) after it was
sold to the Pacific Northwest here.
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Baldwin 4-6-0 No. 4 was bought from Southern Iron & Equipment in Atlanta in 1905. |
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:
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For more information contact Tony Howe at howe6818@bellsouth.net or David S. Price at dsprice46@bellsouth.net