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Marvell was founded when Marvell M. Carruth and his wife, Rachel, sold 50 lots of land given to him by his father, Ladson Carruth, to the Arkansas Central Railroad. A train depot was soon established. Marvell became an un-incorporated town on May 28, 1873, with R.M. Jackson as its first mayor.
Separately, the Brinkley, Helena and Indian Bay Railway was a 3-foot gauge line built in 1889 from a spur off the Midland trackage at Pine City to the town of Brinkley, Arkansas, which also had a connection to the T&SL as well as to the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad and what became the shortline White and Black River Valley Railway.
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 Orleans Railroad: Arkansas Eastern Railroad: 1907 N/A Arkansas and Gulf Railroad: N/A Arkansas ...
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 to ...
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The railroad began as the Eureka Springs Railway in 1883 as a line from the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway ("Frisco") in Seligman, MO, reaching the resort town of Eureka Springs, AR in 1883. [1] In May of 1899, the line was conveyed to a newly-formed company, the St. Louis and North Arkansas Railroad , which intended to build all the way to ...
Oct. 8—Brunswick hosted a record-breaking Railroad Days festival Sunday as thousands came to the city to ride trains, learn about the city's history and spend a nice, fall day with their families.
In 1888, the railroad built the Arkansas trackage along with 78.2 miles in Oklahoma through Vian and Fort Gibson to Wagoner. [1] [5] The road was operated from its first day by Iron Mountain. [4] In 1889 the railroad constructed another 79.2 miles from Wagoner through Inola, Claremore, Oologah and Lenapah to the Kansas state line south of ...