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Arkansas Railroad Museum is located on Port Road in Pine Bluff, Arkansas at the former Cotton Belt (SSW) yard. The former SSW shops are occupied by the historic collection of railroad equipment. This museum is about an hour's drive from Little Rock, AR, and is one of the largest displays of historic railroad equipment in Arkansas.
Engine 819 played a minor role along with 35 Pine Bluff residents turned-actors, many of them members of the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society who had helped restore the steam engine. Arkansas-born actress Mary Steenburgen was the film's executive producer, who worked hard to be able to use the newly restored locomotive for the movie. [ 19 ]
Corporate history.—The Pine Bluff Arkansas River Railway was incorporated January 26, 1898, under the general laws of the State of Arkansas for the purpose primarily of acquiring the property, rights, and franchises of the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad Company, which had been sold at foreclosure January 18, 1898, to John M. Taylor, trustee, and by him conveyed to the Pine Bluff Arkansas ...
Union Station is a former railroad station at East 4th Ave. and State St. in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. The station was originally at the union of the Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain railroads, [ 2] and now houses the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Society museum. It is a single-story brick building, with a hip roof whose ...
The new AL&M also obtained trackage rights over the Missouri Pacific Railroad from Bastrop to Dollar Junction and Huttig, Arkansas, the two ends of the 1.88-mile (3.03 km) Louisiana and Pine Bluff Railway. [6] The AL&M leased the latter company, [7] which provided access to a saw mill, until its dissolution in 1979. [8]
The railroad of Pine Bluff and Northern Railway Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad, located in the central part of Arkansas. The owned mileage extends southerly from McCreanor, Ark., to Cullor, Ark., a distance of 6.779 miles. The carrier also owns yard and side tracks totaling 0.305 mile.
Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad: Pine Bluff and Northern Railway: 1910 1929 N/A Pine Bluff, Sheridan and Southern Railway: 1912 N/A Pine Bluff and Swan Lake Railway: SSW: 1884 1886 Pine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railway: Pine Bluff and Western Railroad: MP: 1903 1909 St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: Pine Bluff and Western ...
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 ...