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Other than an optimistic 1872 map suggesting the merger of the Arkansas Central, Helena & Corinth, and the Pine Bluff & Southwestern to form this, [4] [5] no evidence such a combined railway got off the ground. The Arkansas Central later became part of the Arkansas Midland Railroad. No info at all re: the existence of the others.
1880 Missouri Pacific Railway: Linneus Branch of the Burlington and Southwestern Railway: CB&Q: 1871 1880 Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railway: Little River Valley and Arkansas Railroad: SSW: 1876 1881 Texas and St. Louis Railway: Louisiana Bridge Company: GM&O: 1873 1873 Mississippi River Bridge Company: Louisiana and Missouri River ...
Arkansas Valley Railroad: ATSF: 1900 1907 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Aspen Short Line Railway: 1888 1893 Colorado Midland Railroad: Aspen and Western Railway: 1880 1892 Crystal River Railway: Associated Railroads: none AT&SF, CB&Q (BN), CRI&P, C&S (BN) and D&RGW 1953 1988 Regional Transportation District
The year 1890 saw construction of a branch line from a point variously known as Cherokee Junction or Greenwood Junction in Oklahoma back to Fort Smith, Arkansas, a total of 6.01 miles, thus giving the K&AV 170.64 total miles of road, including the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad trackage in Kansas which was sold to the K&AV that same year.
The railway's mainline was 113 miles (182 km) long and ran between Little Rock (near the center of the state) and Arkansas City (near the Mississippi River), passing through Pine Bluff. It had about 172 miles (277 km) of track, including sidings , rail yards and branch lines , including the Ouachita Division to Collins (with stage for points in ...
Bradshaw's name was already known as the publisher of Bradshaw's Maps of Inland Navigation, which detailed the canals of Lancashire and Yorkshire, when, on 19 October 1839, soon after the introduction of railways, his Manchester company published the world's first compilation of railway timetables.
During the first half of the 19th century, some factions of the Arapaho and Cheyenne people moved southward into the Arkansas River Valley, becoming allies of the Comanche. Author Hämäläinen postulated a Comanche proto-empire in the early 19th century with an important trading emporium in the Big Timbers , a cottonwood forest bordering the ...
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 ...