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The railway's mainline was 113 miles (182 km) long and ran between Little Rock (near the center of the state) and Arkansas City (near the Mississippi River), passing through Pine Bluff. It had about 172 miles (277 km) of track, including sidings , rail yards and branch lines , including the Ouachita Division to Collins (with stage for points in ...
The Ouachita Division was a 49-mile (79 km) railway line owned and operated by the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway in southeastern Arkansas. The line originated in Trippe (near Arkansas City) where it connected to the Little Rock Division (Arkansas Valley Route), and eventually terminated in Warren.
Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: OKKT MKT: 1980 1989 Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Oklahoma, Red River and Texas Railway: 1910 1912 N/A Operated Blossom to Deport, 11 miles Orange and Northwestern Railroad: MP: 1901 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Panhandle Railway: ATSF: 1887 1898 Southern Kansas Railway of Texas: Panhandle and Gulf ...
The AVI, as it emerged, was only a portion of a proposal in 1910 for a large network of interurban lines focusing on Wichita, running passenger and freight services mainly in competition with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and expecting to feed freight to the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway [3] and the Midland Valley Railroad, also to Wichita's new transcontinental line the Kansas ...
White and Black River Valley Railway: Bearden and Ouachita River Railroad: 1904 N/A Beirne and Clear Lake Railroad: 1909 N/A Bentonville Railroad: SLSF: 1882 1900 Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad: Black and Cache River Railroad: 1882 1902 Cache Valley Railroad: Black Mountain and Eastern Railroad: 1915 1916 Combs, Cass and Eastern Railroad
In 1889 the railroad constructed another 79.2 miles from Wagoner through Inola, Claremore, Oologah and Lenapah to the Kansas state line south of Coffeyville. [1] [5] A separate company called the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad, controlled by Iron Mountain (also a Missouri Pacific affiliate), built 2.41 miles of trackage in Kansas. [6]
The Arkansas Valley and Western Railway (AV&W) was built as a short line railroad operating within the U.S. state of Oklahoma.It was founded in 1902 to link the city of Tulsa with the main transcontinental line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) at Avard.
When the successors of the T&SL converted to standard gauge, the owners of the Cotton Plant, by then 56 miles long and known as the Batesville and Brinkley (and later as the White and Black River Valley Railway), converted to standard gauge as well. [12] The Arkansas Midland likewise converted to standard gauge a year after the T&SL did. [9]