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Arkansas Railroad Museum is most famous for stabling SSW #819, the last steam locomotive built by the Cotton Belt.The 819 was restored to operation in 1986. It operated on 13 excursions between 1986 and 1993, but is currently out of service pending completion of an overhaul mandated by the Federal Railroad Administration.
An expensive boiler re-build was also mandated by the state boiler inspector. In early 2011, the loco was moved to the [8] Reader Railroad in Reader, Arkansas for evaluation and possible repair. No. 8, a two-truck Shay engine (Serial No. 2977) built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1918. It now resides as a static display at the Railway ...
Cotton Belt 819 is a class "L-1" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive and is also the official state locomotive of Arkansas. [ 2] It was completed in 1943 and was the last engine built by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, which was affectionately known as "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt".
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt Route) Steam Locomotive #336 is a historic railroad steam locomotive, located at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a Class D3 2-6-0 Mogul-style locomotive, built in 1909 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . [2]
Arkansas Eastern Railroad: 1907 N/A Arkansas and Gulf Railroad: N/A Arkansas and Indian Territory Railway: MP: 1882 1883 Arkansas and Louisiana Railway: Arkansas and Louisiana Railway: MP: 1882 1909 St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: Arkansas, Louisiana and Gulf Railroad: 1914 1915 Leased the Arkansas, Louisiana and Gulf Railway
Reader Railroad. The 5-mile (8.0 km) Reader Railroad was a tourist-only railroad operating in Reader, Arkansas from 1973 to 1991. As a 23-mile (37 km) common carrier prior to May 1973, it was the last all steam locomotive -powered, mixed train railroad operating in North America. It operated trackage in Ouachita County and Nevada County, Arkansas.
Arkansas and Ozarks Railway. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 335.21 miles (539.47 km) in 1919. The Missouri and North Arkansas ( reporting mark M&NA) was a railroad in Missouri and Arkansas from 1906 to 1946. [ 1][ 2]
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad (JLC&E) was a short-line railroad that operated in Mississippi and Craighead counties of northeast Arkansas. This railroad received a charter from the state of Arkansas on April 7, 1897, and track construction between Jonesboro and Blytheville began soon ...