SABINE AND EAST TEXAS RAILWAY SABINE AND EAST TEXAS RAILWAY. The
Sabine and East Texas Railway Company was chartered as the East
Texas Railway Company on April 29, 1880. On August 3, 1881, its
name was changed to the Sabine and East Texas. In 1881 the
company built thirty miles of track between Beaumont and Sabine
Pass and twenty-four miles between Beaumont and Kountze. The
next year the railroad was extended 48½ miles from Kountze to
Rockland. On October 28, 1882, the 102-mile Sabine and East
Texas was sold to the Texas and New Orleans and consolidated
with that company. Thirty miles between Sabine Pass and Beaumont
were badly damaged and partly washed away on October 12, 1886,
but in 1887 were rebuilt. The 12½-mile-long section between
Sabine Pass and West Port Arthur was abandoned in 1932, and the
section north of Beaumont was not being operated in 1990. The
following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th
edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Nancy Beck
Young, "SABINE AND EAST TEXAS