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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 ]
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (May 2002), "Arkansas state rail plan 2002" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-12-21.. Retrieved February 11, 2005. Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9.
The Arkansas Highway System is made up of all the highways designated as Interstates, U.S. Highways and State Highways in the US state of Arkansas.The system is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), known as the Arkansas State Highway Department (AHD) until 1977 and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) from 1977 to 2017.
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Arkansas has long had a stigma of poor roads, dating from the "Arkansas Roads Scandal" playing a prominent role in state politics through the 1920s and 1930s, periodic allegations of corruption, waste, and fraud, and a long-running struggle to adequately fund the operation, maintenance and expansion of a large highway system serving a rural state.
US 59 at Oklahoma state line west of Acorn: 1934 [citation needed] current US 61: 75.3: 121.2 US 61 at Tennessee state line near West Memphis: US 61 at Missouri state line near Blytheville: 1926 [citation needed] current US 62: 329.9: 530.9 US 62 at Oklahoma state line: US 62 at Missouri state line near St. Francis: 1930 [citation needed]
ArDOT maintains both segments of AR 103 as part of the state highway system. Excluding concurrencies, the highest traffic of either segment was immediately north of I-40 in Clarksville, estimated at 14,000 vehicles per day on average in 2021, dropping as it travels north, including 5,000 VPD on the University of the Ozarks campus to 740 north of Harmony.