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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 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 ...
M. Mammoth Spring State Park. Categories: Rail transportation in Arkansas. Railroad museums in the United States by state or territory. Transportation museums in Arkansas.