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1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Caddo Valley Railroad ( reporting mark CVYR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Glenwood, Arkansas . CVYR operates a 52-mile line in Arkansas from Gurdon, Arkansas, (where it interchanges with Union Pacific) to Bird Mill, Arkansas . The line was first owned by Missouri Pacific, a predecessor of Union ...
The railroad stopped operations in 1924. The trackage was subsequently abandoned. Legacy. C&CRR #11, a 2-6-2 built for the road by Baldwin, was sold to the Reader Railroad in Arkansas in 1941, and has had multiple other owners over time, ending up on static display in Riney-B Park near Nicholasville, Kentucky where it still resides.
The company, originally known as the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, completed its main line between West Memphis, Arkansas and western Oklahoma by 1900. In 1901 the CO&G chartered a subsidiary company, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, to continue construction west into the Texas panhandle, and by 1902 the railroad had extended as far west as Amarillo.
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) The Arkansas Midland Railroad ( reporting mark AKMD) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Malvern, Arkansas . AKMD operates 138 miles (222 km) of line in Arkansas consisting of seven disconnected branch lines and two sister railroads, the Prescott & Northwestern (PNW) and the Warren & Saline River (WSR).
McCloud Railway. MCR No. 25, a 2-6-2 locomotive built by Alco in 1925. 2008 photo near McCloud. The McCloud Railway ( reporting mark MCR) was a class III railroad operated around Mount Shasta, California. It began operations on July 1, 1992, when it took over operations from the McCloud River Railroad. The MCR was incorporated on April 21, 1992.
Abandoned bridge just north of Visalia over the St Johns River. On Dec 22, 1992, the line was sold to the Tulare Valley Railroad. The TVRR purchased the rail, ties, ballast, and land. The segment of the Visalia District between Corcoran and Tulare was not used by the TVRR, and the segment was removed by 1994, along with the SP crossing in Tulare.
McCloud River Railroad No. 19, also known as Yreka Western No. 19, or Oregon, Pacific and Eastern No. 19, is a preserved 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive in the United States that worked on the Caddo and Choctaw Railroad, United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company McCloud River Railroad, Yreka Western Railroad, and the Oregon, Pacific, and Eastern Railway.
The Sacramento Valley & Eastern was not listed in the 1930 Official Guide of the Railways and was abandoned entirely following the collapse of the bridge across the Sacramento River just east of Pitt during the floods of early 1939. Today no trace of the right of way remains since it was submerged under the waters of Shasta Lake in the early 1940s.