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This museum is about an hour's drive from Little Rock, AR, and is one of the largest displays of historic railroad equipment in Arkansas. The Museum is operated by the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society and local volunteers. The Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9 AM to 2 PM and on Sunday afternoon by appointment.
Cotton Belt 819 is a class "L-1" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive and is also the official state locomotive of Arkansas. [ 2] It was completed in 1943 and was the last engine built by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, which was affectionately known as "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt".
Reader Railroad. The 5-mile (8.0 km) Reader Railroad was a tourist-only railroad operating in Reader, Arkansas from 1973 to 1991. As a 23-mile (37 km) common carrier prior to May 1973, it was the last all steam locomotive -powered, mixed train railroad operating in North America. It operated trackage in Ouachita County and Nevada County, Arkansas.
Arkansas Railroad Museum, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 34°13′46″N 91°59′6″W / 34.22944°N 91.98500°W / 34.22944; -91.98500 ( Central Texas Gravel Locomotive General Electric -built diesel-electric switch locomotive, well-preserved example of the second generation of GE's 25-ton switching locomotives , a popular model used ...
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 ...
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. 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 ...
M. Mammoth Spring State Park. Categories: Rail transportation in Arkansas. Railroad museums in the United States by state or territory. Transportation museums in Arkansas.
Arkansas Midland Railroad: MP: 1877 1917 St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: Arkansas Midland Railroad: MP: 1853 1871 Arkansas Central Railway: Arkansas North Western Railway: SLSF: 1894 1898 Gulf, Arkansas and Northwestern Railway: Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad: SLSF: 1898 1901 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Arkansas ...