Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
The Zebulon Pike expedition of 1806 followed the Arkansas River upstream to explore for the United States the newly acquired Louisiana territory. Pike and his men strayed into Spanish territory and were arrested and imprisoned. [15] In 1811 Ezekial Williams (not to be confused with Old Bill Williams) trapped in the upper Arkansas valley. [11]
Tarkio Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1880 1900 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Tebo and Neosho Railroad: MKT: 1860 1872 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Terminal Railroad of St. Louis: 1880 1889 Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad: PRR: 1902 1905 Vandalia Railroad: Texas and St ...
The station, which provided both passenger and freight service, was built in 1910 by the Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad, a small regional railroad seeking to provide additional means for area farmers to bring their products to a wider market. [2] The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]