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Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans Railroad: 1891 N/A Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans Railway: 1891 Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans Railroad: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad: SLSF: 1888 1901 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: SLSF: 1901 1928 St. Louis – San ...
The Arkansas Southern Railroad (reporting mark ARS) is a short-line railroad which started service in October 2005. [1] ARS operates two disconnected lines consisting of Heavener, Oklahoma to Waldron, Arkansas (32 miles), and Ashdown to Nashville, Arkansas (29 miles), plus a switch track at Ashdown, [ 1 ] for a total of 63 miles. [ 2 ]
Kansas City, Emporia and Southern Railway: ATSF: 1882 1901 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad: SLSF: 1879 1888 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Springfield Railroad: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad: SLSF: 1888 1901 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: Kansas City, Fort Scott and ...
The year 1890 saw construction of a branch line from a point variously known as Cherokee Junction or Greenwood Junction in Oklahoma back to Fort Smith, Arkansas, a total of 6.01 miles, thus giving the K&AV 170.64 total miles of road, including the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad trackage in Kansas which was sold to the K&AV that same year.
The entire KCP&G route opened from Kansas City to the Gulf on November 1, 1897, with the T&FS operating 105 miles of the main line in Arkansas and 79 miles in Texas. [4] In the wake of a financial crisis, the KCP&G was reorganized as the Kansas City Southern Railway on April 1, 1900.
Kansas City Southern was the surviving corporation, with the Louisiana & Arkansas as a KCS subsidiary, but the KCS president and the controlling stockholders were all from the L&A. This merger created "single line" railroad freight service between Kansas City and New Orleans, and on September 2, 1940, a new KCS-L&A diesel powered streamliner ...
Work continues on the KC Wheel, a 150-foot tall ferris wheel with 36 climate-controlled gondolas, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Kansas City.
Other locomotives used at one time or another include #55, an Alco S4 diesel; [10] #74R, also an S4; [11] and, #80, an EMD MP15DC diesel. [12] The Graysonia train depot in Ashdown, Arkansas appears on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Little River County, Arkansas as the Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad Depot. [13]