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Abandoned Train in woods of Frost/Livingston?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:19 pm
Has anyone heard of the abandoned Garyville Northern Train engine somewhere in the woods around Frost and Livingston?
I read on an historical train website of it being sited sitting in the woods while a local hunting of this train engine. Can anyone confirm this?
I read on an historical train website of it being sited sitting in the woods while a local hunting of this train engine. Can anyone confirm this?
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Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:31 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
I've never heard of that one, but I have heard of one on private land near Maurepas Swamp WMA. I do enjoy stories about such things.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:45 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
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The present north-south road from Livingston through Frost to Verdun, State Highway 63, occupies the old Garyville Northern roadbed.
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At the northern end of the rail line was the town of Livingston.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:05 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
I live down there and hunted and road fourwheelers on the old Garryville northern for years. I was always told that their was an indian mound back there and a flow well with pure water coming out. I never found it because when the gravel road runs out it goes straight to management area and then straight to swamp, but my dad and uncles said they saw them many times 40-50 years ago. I know it used to be a railroad and I actually found an old rail road spike, but I've never heard of an abandoned train being back there. Im not saying there isn't, but living here I figured I would have heard about it.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:11 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
If you have facebook, check out the facebook group "Livinston Pasish old Photos" there was a discussion about this in the past couple of months.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:30 pm to wickowick
Thanks for the reply's. There is a museum in Garyville and we have lots of old documents and currently we are trying to get the LSTA (The train from Audubon park No. 745.relocated to the museum.
I'll keep checking back for anything new and old info about this train. It could be in the swamps of Maurepaus.
I'll keep checking back for anything new and old info about this train. It could be in the swamps of Maurepaus.
This post was edited on 5/31/16 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:31 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
how does something like this get lost?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:36 pm to Shexter
That railroad track crosses the Amite river right by my paw paws. I've always wondered about it. The main beams still stand.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:36 pm to Dylan
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I was always told that their was an indian mound back there
The Indian mounds are well known. They are at the end of King George Road very near the river.
LSU Thesis Paper on King George Mounds
Posted on 5/31/16 at 2:12 pm to CarRamrod
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how does something like this get lost?
The owners pulled up the tracks as the Cypress thinned out the mill in Garyville switched to pine but eventually they moved north.
One engine was sold, now believed to be in Disneyland California. The engine that is in Frost/Livingston was probably to costly to operate, trains switched to diesel/electric. That was an oil burning steam engine. Most needed water stations placed every 10 miles.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 2:38 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
Can you follow the old tracks on google earth. I think you can go back in time to find a winter time map where the leaves will be off the trees. May be able to find something.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:14 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
Maybe this will help it is an article from the Ponchatoula Times, check page 1 and 9 for the story on the train, I believe it is the same train.
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LINK
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:21 pm to Nodust
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Can you follow the old tracks on google earth.
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The present north-south road from Livingston through Frost to Verdun, State Highway 63, occupies the old Garyville Northern roadbed.
They laid HWY 63 over most of the old tracks.
If you look on Google Earth, there's a powerline running from the south end of 63 all the way across the river to thwe town of Whitehead. If I had to guess, that's the old railroad path. An existing path would be the easiest to take.
That path continues through the swamp across Chincapin Canal and Diversion Canal.
This post was edited on 5/31/16 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:27 pm to burgeman
So corner of Mill Road and Hwy 51. Is that in Ponchatoula?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:39 pm to Nodust
Ponchatoula is too far east of that rail line.
The northern end of the railway sits under HWY 63. You can follow LA HWY 54 all the way from the river north toward Livingston.
https://www.lobservateur.com/2015/07/22/our-history-garyvilles-boon-cypress-trees-draw-thousands-to-st-john/
Timbermill Museum Photos:
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The company also built the Garyville Northern Rail Road, approximately located where Louisiana 54 lies today, which extended 35 miles north to Livingston, another town built by the lumber company. The railway proved to be more than a method of transporting lumber, as it also served as a passenger train and was used to deliver mail.
The northern end of the railway sits under HWY 63. You can follow LA HWY 54 all the way from the river north toward Livingston.
https://www.lobservateur.com/2015/07/22/our-history-garyvilles-boon-cypress-trees-draw-thousands-to-st-john/
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“I’d also like to see a bike trail trace the route of the GNRR from Garyville to Livingston,” Monica said. Although the railroad was dismantled after the Depression, some of the rail bed is still in the swamp. One building significant in Garyville’s history, The Bank on Historic Front Street, fills weekly with music during Thursday Night Jams, beginning at 7 p.m. every Thursday.
Timbermill Museum Photos:
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Location and general description of property.—The railroad of the Garyville Northern Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad located in Louisiana, extending from a connection with the logging railroad of the Lyon Lumber Company, about 2 miles southeast of Whitehall, in a northerly direction to Livingston, a distance of 18.727 miles.
This post was edited on 5/31/16 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:43 pm to Shexter
This is awesome! I would love to go out there myself and see if I can find anything.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 4:09 pm to RussianFromLSU
So what date is the scavenger hunt? This sounds like a good time. 
Posted on 5/31/16 at 4:19 pm to Mark Makers
I went back and looked, at the facebook groups. The railroad discussion is onAmite River / Lake Maurepas Louisiana.
From the comments: Off of bayou Conway on blind river
If in the Blind River area, these are likely from the Lyons Lumber Co. railroad that went from their mill in Garyville to the Amite River. . The Lyon Lumber Co. was incorporated in Louisiana on January 3, 1903,
From the comments: Off of bayou Conway on blind river
If in the Blind River area, these are likely from the Lyons Lumber Co. railroad that went from their mill in Garyville to the Amite River. . The Lyon Lumber Co. was incorporated in Louisiana on January 3, 1903,
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:03 pm to wickowick
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bayou Conway
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Bayou Conway Boat Launch provides access to Bayou Conway, and is located just 1 mile east of Sorrento, off Highway 22.
Might run into these guys
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:15 pm to Shexter
Maybe Glenn, but definitely not Mitchell.
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In Memory of
Mitchell James Guist
May 18, 1964 - May 14, 2012
A lifelong resident of Brittany, he passed away Monday, May 14, 2012 at age of 47. He was a cast member on the History Channel's show "Swamp People," featured alongside his brother, Glenn. His passion was living off the Bayou, hunting and fishing. He is survived by his brother, Glenn Guist; sister, Tonya Guist; niece, Nicole Melancon and husband Trent; nephew, CJ; great nieces, Mollie and Adah Melancon; great nephew Ransly Melancon; and a great uncle, Sydney Bonaventure. Preceded in death by parents, Bonnie Albritton and Hubert Guist; brothers, Hubert Guist Jr. and Daniel Guist. There will be a visitation at Ourso Funeral Home, Gonzales, Friday, May 18, 2012 from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Visitation will resume at the funeral Home Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. until service at 12:00 p.m. conducted by Charles "Chuck" Stern. Interment will be in Lusk Cemetery in Gonzales. Pallbearers will be Justin Delatte, Roman Belleu, Todd Alexander, Aaron Polk, Joshua Polk, T.K. Waddell, Toby Ponville, and Brant Kohan. To offer condolences to the family, please visit www.oursofh.com. We love and miss you. One day you'll kill that big buck (just to make Michael mad). Love always, Glenn, Tonya, CJ and Nicole.
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