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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]
The original railway chartered at the site in 1882 was the Eureka Springs Railway, extending from Seligman, Missouri, to Eureka Springs.In 1899, it became the St. Louis & North Arkansas Railroad Co.; in 1906, the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad Co.; in 1922, the Missouri & North Arkansas Railway Co.; in 1935, the Missouri & Arkansas Railway Co.; in 1949, the Arkansas & Ozarks - which closed ...
The Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, LLC ( reporting mark MNA) is a Class II Regional Railroad in the U.S. states of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. The company is headquartered in Carthage, Missouri. It is not to be confused with the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad which connected Joplin, Missouri, with Helena, Arkansas, from 1906 ...
1914 Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad/Kansas City Southern Railway collision, Tipton Ford, Missouri; 43 killed plus 38 injured. Possibly Missouri's deadliest rail disaster to date [92] [93] 1916 Summer Street Bridge disaster, Boston, Massachusetts; 46 killed. Deadliest disaster in Boston's history up to that point and still remains the city ...
August 5 – United States – At Tipton Ford, Missouri, on the Kansas City Southern Railway, a train order is issued for a northbound Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad gasoline motor car to stop and wait for a southbound KCS passenger train. The motor car proceeds and collides head-on with the train at a combined speed of 70 mph (110 km/h ...
Skirmish at Albany, Missouri. William T. Anderson[ a] (c. 1840 – October 26, 1864), known by the nickname " Bloody Bill " Anderson, was a soldier who was one of the deadliest and most notorious Confederate guerrilla leaders in the American Civil War. Anderson led a band of volunteer partisan raiders who targeted Union loyalists and federal ...
October 19 – United States – 20 cars of Missouri Pacific Railroad train No. 94 derailed in Houston; two tank cars loaded with vinyl chloride monomer were punctured, allowing the gas to escape and ignite; 45 minutes after the derailment a third tank car exploded and a fourth was "rocketed" some 300 feet (91 m) away; a fireman was killed and ...
The city was once a beehive of railroad activity; however, many of the original railroad lines serving Joplin, such as the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, [61] [62] were abandoned after the demise of the mining and industrial enterprises. The Missouri and North Arkansas had connected Joplin with Helena, Arkansas. Passenger trains have not ...