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The AVI, as it emerged, was only a portion of a proposal in 1910 for a large network of interurban lines focusing on Wichita, running passenger and freight services mainly in competition with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and expecting to feed freight to the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway [3] and the Midland Valley Railroad, also to Wichita's new transcontinental line the Kansas ...
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 ...
In 1889 the railroad constructed another 79.2 miles from Wagoner through Inola, Claremore, Oologah and Lenapah to the Kansas state line south of Coffeyville. [1] [5] A separate company called the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad, controlled by Iron Mountain (also a Missouri Pacific affiliate), built 2.41 miles of trackage in Kansas. [6]
The prehistory of the W&BRV starts with the partnership of Gunn & Black, which owned a sawmill near Brinkley, Arkansas. [1] To haul logs to their mill, the partnership on July 1, 1879 began operating a 3-foot 6-inch gauge private rail line which originated from their mill and was extended in the direction of the town of Cotton Plant which was 11 miles to the northwest.
Antoine Valley Railroad: 6.00 1907 1910 Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railway: Railroad listing: [1] Arkansas Railroad: 1920 1959 N/A Arkansas Central Railroad: AKC MP: 1897 1922 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Arkansas Central Railway: MP: 1871 1877 Arkansas Midland Railroad: Arkansas and Choctaw Railway: SLSF: 1895 1902 St. Louis, San Francisco and New ...
Arkansas Midland has been providing service between the UP interchange and Highway 53 (northwest of town) to service the Georgia-Pacific saw mill on US Highway 67 (US 67). MM GP10 #7530, presumably owned by the Caddo Valley, remains in unserviceable condition at the old open air shop in Antoine, Arkansas. Supposedly everything has been sold to ...
The Midland Valley Railroad (MV) was a railroad company incorporated on June 4, 1903 for the purpose of building a line from Hope, Arkansas, through Muskogee and Tulsa, Oklahoma to Wichita, Kansas. It was backed by C. Jared Ingersoll, a Philadelphia industrialist who owned coal mining properties in Indian Territory (now part of the state of ...
Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad; Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad; Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company; Arkansas Midland Railroad; Arkansas Midland Railroad (1992) Arkansas and Missouri Railroad; Arkansas Southern Railroad; Arkansas Western Railway; Augusta Railroad