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The Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was a railroad that operated in the state of Arkansas, United States, between 1853 and 1875. It came to national prominence when its bonds were the subject of a scandal involving Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine in 1876.
The Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway was the Texas subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern Railway, operating railroad lines in the states of Arkansas and Texas, with headquarters at Texarkana, Texas. [1] On June 18, 1885, the Texarkana and Northern Railway, organized by William. L.
The Fort Smith and Western Railway (reporting mark FSW) was a railroad that operated in the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.. The railroad's main line extended 197 miles (317 km) from Coal Creek, Oklahoma (about 7 miles east of Bokoshe, Oklahoma) [1] to Guthrie, Oklahoma, with an additional 20 miles (32 km) of trackage rights over the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) between Fort Smith ...
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 Railroad: Fort Smith and Western Railroad: FS&W 1899 1923 Fort Smith and Western Railway: Fort Smith and ...
Toward that goal, the AT&SF incorporated The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway Company in Kansas on July 13, 1899, which then built a line from Pauls Valley to what became the town of Lindsay, a distance of 24.2 miles, in the 1901-1903 timeframe. [2] The line’s first operation was in December of 1903. [2]
The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860 before the war. In the heavily settled Midwestern Corn Belt , over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles (8 km) of a railway, facilitating the shipment of grain, hogs, and cattle to national and international markets.
Fort Smith and Western Railway: Fort Smith and Western Railroad of Oklahoma: 1902 1907 Fort Smith and Western Railroad: Fort Smith and Western Railway: FS&W, FSW 1921 1939 Fort Smith and Van Buren Railway: Gulf Railroad: ATSF: 1896 1899 Hutchinson and Southern Railway: Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: ATSF: 1884 1965 Atchison, Topeka and ...
The Encyclopedia of Trains & Locomotives (2002) Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). Stover, John. The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John.