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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 Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway is a for-profit passenger tourist railway established by the late Robert Dortch, Jr. and his wife Mary Jane in 1981 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The railway offers one-hour excursion tours, a catered luncheon train and a catered dinner train - each lasting a little more than one hour, from April ...
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 ...
Missouri and Louisiana Railroad: Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad: M&NA 1906 1922 Missouri and North Arkansas Railway: Missouri and North Arkansas Railway: M&NA 1922 1935 Missouri and Arkansas Railway: Missouri Pacific Railroad: MP MP 1917 1997 Union Pacific Railroad: Montana Railroad (of Arkansas) 1915 1935 N/A Monte Ne Railway: 1902 1911
St. Louis and North Arkansas Railway: 1899 1906 Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad: St. Louis, Oak Hill and Carondelet Railway: MP: 1886 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis Railway and Dock Company: St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad: ATSF: 1868 1874 St. Joseph and St. Louis Railroad: St. Louis, Salem and Arkansas Railway: SLSF: 1887 1897
April 24: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railway begins operating the former Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, in receivership since April 1, 1912. April 26: The Van Sweringen brothers buy the Lake Erie and Western Railroad from the New York Central Railroad.
144 mi (232 km) The Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway (O&CC) was formed under the name of the North Arkansas & Western Railway in 1899. At its maximum, it owned a standard gauge, single track line running between Fayetteville, Arkansas and Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Its assets were merged into the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (Frisco) in 1907.
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country ...