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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.
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 ...
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 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]
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 ...
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 prehistory of the W&BRV starts with the partnership of Gunn & Black, which owned a sawmill near Brinkley, Arkansas. [1] To haul logs to their mill, the partnership on July 1, 1879 began operating a 3-foot 6-inch gauge private rail line which originated from their mill and was extended in the direction of the town of Cotton Plant which was 11 miles to the northwest.