Historical Marker
Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad
Historical marker location:
Camden, Texas
( at railroad depot - intersection of FM 62 and FM 942)
Marker installed: 1968
Texas' shortest (and one of its oldest) "mixed"-train railroads. Has passenger and freight cars pulled by a single engine on a 7-mile system, 5 days a week.
Chartered 1898 by lumberman W. T. Carter to connect sawmill town of Camden 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, 1965.
Passenger coach with original rattan seats began its career 1898 on Long Island Railroad.