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An entity called the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad (C&MR), a publicly traded company, on October 25, 1898 purchased at foreclosure the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] That was a line running 133 miles from Hopefield, Arkansas , which was a ferry crossing point to Memphis, Tennessee across the Mississippi River , and ending in ...
Fort Smith, Subiaco and Rock Island Railroad: Fort Smith, Subiaco and Rock Island Railroad: 1919 1962 N/A Fort Smith Suburban Railway: MP: 1902 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Fort Smith and Van Buren Railway: FSVB KCS: 1910 1992 Kansas City Southern Railway: Fort Smith and Van Buren Bridge Company: SLSF: 1885 1907 St. Louis and San Francisco ...
The Rock Island Railway Depot is a historic train station building on 3rd Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. Built c. 1925 by the Rock Island Railroad, it is one of two brick railroad stations to survive from the period in Dallas County. It is a large rectangular structure with a cross-gable tile roof. The building continues to be used by the Fordyce ...
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910 Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898 Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
The Choctaw Rocket followed a railway built by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad between 1900 and 1902, informally known as the Choctaw Route. The CO&G and its railways were purchased by the Rock Island railroad in 1902. A predecessor train, along the same route, and having the numbers #51/52, had the name, Chocktaw Limited in the 1930s. [2]
The railroad of Rock Island, Arkansas and Louisiana Railroad Company, herein called the Rock Island, Arkansas and Louisiana, is a single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, of which the main line is in three segments, the first extending from Biddle to Benton, Ark., the second from Haskell, Ark., to Packton, La., and the third from Alexandria to Eunice, La., 21.992, 208.638, and 55.353 ...
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot was a historic railroad station off Arkansas Highway 10 in Blue Mountain, Arkansas.It was a single-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a hip roof whose deep eaves were supported by triangular brackets.