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Delta Valley And Southern Railway
The Delta Valley and Southern Railway is a short-line railroad headquartered in Wilson, Arkansas. DVS operates a two-mile line in Arkansas near Wilson with one switch engine. The line is the former St. Louis-San Francisco Railway branch from Elkins to Deckerville. All but from Delpro to Elkins was abandoned in 1947. , the railroad operated from its enginehouse at the present end of the line to a connection with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) south of Wilson. The line served one cotton processing plant owned by the R.E.L. Wilson company. Motive power was a GE 45-tonner side-rod locomotive, purchased new in May 1954, GE s/n 32129. The locomotive, DV&S 50, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The locomotive was housed in a single stall engine house built right over the main line of this short railroad, at the end of the line. However, that locomotive was sold in 2009. Corporate headquarters are located in the company town of Wilson, Arkansas. The corpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 34th most populous state, with a population of just over 3 million at the 2020 census. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, in the central part of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, including the Fayetteville–Springdaleâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson, Arkansas
Wilson is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Arkansas Delta and is surrounded by fertile cropland historically used to produce cotton. Wilson started as a company town in 1886 by Robert E. Lee Wilson, who would build a cotton empire and run it from the city. The Wilson Company would become so successful that all of the town's buildings were rebuilt in the Tudor Revival architectural style following Wilson's son's honeymoon to England in 1925. Wilson incorporated in 1959, becoming a town with public roads and municipal government. The extensive property holdings of the Lee Wilson and Company remained in the Wilson family until 2010. The community has seen a rapid decline in economic activity and population since the advent of mechanization on the farm, reducing the need for manual labor to produce cotton. The population was 766 at the 2020 census, down from 903 at the 2010 census. History Wilson started as a company town for Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short-line Railroad
:''Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the American version of the popular board game Monopoly, named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.'' A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the U.S., railroads are categorized by operating revenue, and most shortline railroads fall into the Class III or Class II categorization defined by the Surface Transportation Board. Shortlines generally exist for one of three reasons: to link two industries requiring rail freight together (for example, a gypsum mine and a wall board factory, or a coal mine and a power plant); to interchange revenue traffic with other, usually larger, railroads; or to operate a tourist passenger train service. Often, short lines exist for all three of these reasons. History At the beginning of the railroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elkins, Arkansas
Elkins is a city in Washington County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Boston Mountains, deep in the Ozark Mountains. A combination of the former unincorporated communities of Harris and Hood, Elkins was established in 1964. Located immediately east of Fayetteville in the Northwest Arkansas metropolitan statistical area, Elkins has been experiencing rapid growth in recent years, doubling in population between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. Geography The city is located southeast of Fayetteville along Arkansas Highway 16 on the west bank of the White River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,602 people, 1,109 households, and 771 families residing in the city. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 1,251 people, 485 households, and 370 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 51 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DV&S 50
Delta Valley and Southern 50 is a standard gauge diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric in May, 1954, GE #32129 for the Delta Valley and Southern Railway. It replaced a small steam locomotive. It is of the type designated as a 45-ton, although the actual weight may be different from that. It is powered by two Cummins HBI-600 six-cylinder diesel prime movers, each of which drives a generator which, in turn, drives a single electric traction motor, one on each truck. The second axle on each truck is driven by a side rod. The Delta Valley and Southern Railway, "DVS", in 1996 operated two miles of track from Delpro to Elkins, Arkansas, carrying about 600 cars a year. The line originally operated over 18.1 miles of track from Delpro to Tyronza, but was cut back in 1947. It was part of the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway (Frisco) for most of its life. DV&S 50 was the only locomotive used on the railroad from 1954 until sold to Edwin Kessler. Burlington Northern Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corporate Headquarters
Corporate headquarters is the part of a corporate structure that deals with important tasks such as strategic planning, corporate communications, taxes, law, books of record, marketing, finance, human resources, and information technology. Corporate headquarters takes responsibility for the overall success of the corporation and ensures corporate governance. It is sometimes referred to as the head office, which is the location where the executives of a business work and where many of the key business decisions are made. Generally, corporate headquarters acts as a core when the business is operating. The corporate headquarters includes: the CEO (chief executive officer) as a key person and their support staff such as the CEO office and other CEO related functions; the "corporate policy making" functions: Include all corporate functions necessary to steer the firm by defining and establishing corporate policies; the corporate services: Activities that combine or consolidate certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels. This arrangement is commonly called a Mogul. Overview In the United States and Europe, the wheel arrangement was principally used on tender locomotives. This type of locomotive was widely built in the United States from the early 1860s to the 1920s. Although examples were built as early as 1852–53 by two Philadelphia manufacturers, Baldwin Locomotive Works and Norris Locomotive Works, these first examples had their leading axles mounted directly and rigidly on the frame of the locomotive rather than on a separate truck or bogie. On these early 2-6-0 locomotives, the leading axle was merely used to distribute the weight of the locomotive over a larger number of wheels. It was therefore essentially an 0-8-0 with an unpowered leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonesboro, Lake City And Eastern Railroad
The Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad (JLC&E) was a short-line railroad that operated in Mississippi and Craighead County of northeast Arkansas. This railroad received a charter from the State of Arkansas on April 7, 1897, and track construction between Jonesboro and Blytheville began soon thereafter. History The initial push to construct the JLC&E came from timber owners and land speculators in northeast Arkansas, all of whom saw the availability of railroad transportation as a necessary ingredient to harvesting timber. By the time the railroad was completed in the summer of 1901, several large sawmills were either in operation or being built along the tracks. In early 1911, the JLC&E was purchased by Robert E. Lee Wilson, a prominent landowner who resided in Wilson, Arkansas. The JLC&E railroad was purchased by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (Frisco) in 1925, and operated as a Frisco branch line into the 1970s. All of the former JLC&E tracks have been dismant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Class I railroads *BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) * Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Regional railroads * Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA) Shortline and terminal railroads *Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad (ALM) * Arkansas Midland Railroad (AKMD) * Arkansas and Missouri Railroad (AM) *Arkansas Southern Railroad (ARS) *Camden and Southern Railroad (CSR) * Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad (DR) *Delta Valley and Southern Railway (DVS) * De Queen and Eastern Railroad (DQE) * East Camden and Highland Railroad (EACH) *El Dorado and Wesson Railway (EDW) *Fordyce and Princeton Railroad (FP) *Fort Smith Railroad (FSR) * Kiamichi Railroad (KRR) * Little Rock Port Authority Railroad (LRPA) *Little Rock and Western Railway (LRWN) *Louisiana and North West Railroad (LNW) * North Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad (NLA) * Ouachita Railroad (OUCH) * Prescott and Northwestern Railroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switching And Terminal Railroads
Switching may refer to: Computing and technology * Switching, functions performed by a switch: ** Electronic switching ** Packet switching, a digital networking communications methodology *** LAN switching, packet switching on Local Area Networks ** Telephone switching, the activity performed by a telephone exchange (telephone switching machine) * Switching, a synonym for shunting in rail transport Other uses * Switching (ecology), a pattern of predation describing predators' selection of food based on its abundance * ''Switching'' (film), a 2003 Danish interactive film * Switching (pickleball), when doubles partners switch sides of their court * Code-switching, of languages * Immunoglobulin class switching, an immunological mechanism that changes the type of antibody produced by B cells * Task switching (psychology) Task switching, or set-shifting, is an executive function that involves the ability to ''unconsciously'' shift attention between one task and another. In contra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
