The "Peach River Lines" of railway of Texas, while yet in their infancy, give promise of becoming a decidedly important feature of transportation in the Southwest. These roads consist of the Peach River & Gulf, the Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern and the Riverside & Gulf railways. The officers of these various roads of the "Peach River Lines" are C. S. Vidor, president; A. W. Miller, vice president and treasurer; B. I. Sparks, secretary and auditor; and C. W. Hole, Galveston, Tex., general manager. Mr. Hole has had wide experience in construction, maintenance and traffic affairs of railroads in the Southwest for many years.

The Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern railroad carried monthly last year 11,500 tons; the Riverside & Gulf railroad 17,892 tons; the Peach River & Gulf railroad 2,649 tons, an aggregate of 32,041 tons a month, or a total for the twelve months of all the "Peach River Lines" of 384,492 tons.

At various places in this descriptive article are high class especially prepared maps which indicate, in one map, the Lines of the Peach River & Gulf railway, in another the Lines of the Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern railway and in another those of the Riverside & Gulf railway.

The relations of the "Peach River Lines" to each other and to the great interstate trunk Lines of the Southwest are shown in another and general map of southeastern Texas.

The Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern railway runs from the Beaumont mill of the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company about three miles to the junction with the Kansas City Southern at a point near Beaumont. Through that point to the north it has trackage rights over the Kansas City Southern to Vidor, a station about six miles north of Beaumont.

At this junction point the road is now laid for about eight miles north into Orange county, Texas, and the right-of-way is graded about ten miles farther north. This road operates a 25-ton Baldwin locomotive, a 25-ton Heisler locomotive [TTA note: Photographs of this engine in the original American Lumberman article, and surviving rebuilder/resale records in the possession of historian Thomas Lawson, show that "Heisler" is in error; the locomotive referred to here was built by Climax Manufacturing Co., which uses a different power-transfer configuration than Heislers], and a 15-ton Porter locomotive. It has a passenger coach for carrying passengers regularly and for the accommodation of the men riding to and from the woods and camps at Vidor and Beaumont; 3 box cars for carrying stock from Vidor to the woods operations; 40 regular standard flat cars fully equipped with air brakes and all necessary features, and 20 regular log cars. The total mileage of the Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern railroad is about seventeen miles, inclusive of spurs, sidetracks etc., and the rails are of 60-pound steel on the main line and 35-pound steel on the spurs.

The Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern has a joint station arrangement with the Kansas City Southern at Beaumont and at Vidor, and a joint yard at each place. It has a machine shop at Vidor. The Galveston, Beaumont & Northeastern was chartered in the spring of 1905, and was granted the right to construct a railroad from Beaumont, Tex., through Jefferson, Orange, Jasper and Newton counties, to a point on the Sabine River about 100 miles northeast of Beaumont.

The railroad has all told 35 employees, 3 on the right-of-way, 4 in the grading crew, 9 in the steel gang, 7 in the section gang, 6 engineers, 3 brakemen, 1 conductor and 2 car repairers.