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Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans Railroad: 1891 N/A Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans Railway: 1891 Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans Railroad: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad: SLSF: 1888 1901 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: SLSF: 1901 1928 St. Louis – San ...
Pages in category "Arkansas railroads" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. ... Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad;
This is a map of the Arkansas Midland Railroad as of 2009, with trackage rights in purple, affiliated companies in pink, and other railroads in gray (Class I railroads in orange). Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created (modified from Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data) or if you see ...
The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system. Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. [1]
The A&M, as it is known, operates 139.5 miles (224.5 km) of line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Monett, Missouri. The railroad interchanges freight cars with Kansas City Southern Railway at Fort Smith, with Union Pacific Railroad at Van Buren, Arkansas, and with BNSF Railway at Monett.
In 1905, the Missouri Pacific Railroad bought the area and sold over one thousand lots, mostly to railroad employees. [6] The city was incorporated in 1905 as Cotter, Arkansas. [7] By that time, the population was over 600. The town was named after William Cotter, an official for the Missouri Pacific Railway System.
The Arkansas Southern Railroad (reporting mark ARS) is a short-line railroad which started service in October 2005. [1] ARS operates two disconnected lines consisting of Heavener, Oklahoma to Waldron, Arkansas (32 miles), and Ashdown to Nashville, Arkansas (29 miles), plus a switch track at Ashdown, [1] for a total of 63 miles. [2]
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 thereafter.