Overview | |
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Headquarters | Lufkin, Texas |
Reporting mark | ANR |
Locale | Texas |
Dates of operation | 1900– |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Track length | 28 miles |
Other | |
Website | http://www.anrrr.com/ Angelina & Neches River Railroad |
The Angelina and Neches River Railroad( reporting mark ANR) (Angelina & Neches River Railroad) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Lufkin, Texas.
ANR operates an 11.6 miles (18.7 km) line from Dunagan, Texas, to an interchange with Union Pacific Railroad at Lufkin. With all owned tracks combined, the company owns and operates 28 miles of track plus 3.5 miles through trackage rights with Union Pacific. ANR traffic includes lumber, foundry products, paper, plywood, chemicals, limestone, scrap iron, steel, and clay.
ANR's predecessor was founded in the 1800s by Angelina County Lumber Company as a logging route, [1] and at its peak operated over 30 miles (48 km) of railroad. It also operates short portions of lines formerly belonging to the East Texas Railroad and the Texas Southeastern Railroad as well as the original Cotton Belt line from Lufkin to the middle of Clawson, Texas.
Angelina County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in East Texas and its county seat is Lufkin.
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Pollok is an unincorporated community in Angelina County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 300 in 2000. It is located within the Lufkin, Texas micropolitan area.
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