The
Gulf, Beaumont
and Great
Northern
Railroad was
chartered on
July 30, 1898.
It was planned
to begin about
a mile south
of Sabine Pass
on the Gulf of
Mexico in
Jefferson
County and to
run north to
Paris in Lamar
County, for a
distance of
about 350
miles. The
capital was
$350,000. The
principal
place of
business was
Beaumont. The
members of the
first board of
directors were
Nathaniel D.
Silsbee of
Boston,
Massachusetts;
James Irvine
of New York
City; John H.
Kirbyqv
of Houston;
and William A.
Fletcher,
William Wiess,
Mark Wiess, W.
S. Davidson,
William W.
Wilson, and W.
C. Averill,
all of
Jefferson
County. In
1901 fifteen
miles of track
was built
between
Roganville and
milepost 15.
Between 1902
and 1904
another
sixty-three
miles was
built, to
Center. The
GB&GN was
leased to the
Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe
on December 1,
1903, and the
railroad was
operated by
the GC&SF
from 1903 to
1948. The
GB&GN, the
Gulf, Beaumont
and Kansas
City, and the
Texas and Gulf
formed a
through line
between
Beaumont and
Longview.
Nancy
Beck Young
-
Handbook of
Texas Online,
s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/eqg23.html (accessed
March 3,
2008).
(NOTE: "s.v."
stands for sub
verbo, "under
the word.")
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