The following
railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
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U.S. state
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of
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 ...
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Class I railroads
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BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...
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Kansas City Southern Railway
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...
(UP)
Regional railroads
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Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad
The Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad, LLC is a Class III shortline railroad headquartered in Carthage, Missouri. It is not to be confused with the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad which connected Joplin, Missouri with Helena, Arkansa ...
(MNA)
Shortline and terminal railroads
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Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad (ALM)
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Arkansas Midland Railroad (AKMD)
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Arkansas and Missouri Railroad
The Arkansas and Missouri Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.
The A&M, as it is known, operates of line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Monett, Missouri. The railroad interchanges freight cars wit ...
(AM)
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Arkansas Southern Railroad (ARS)
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Camden and Southern Railroad (CSR)
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Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad
The Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad Company (D&R) is a Class III railroad, Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Russellville, Arkansas.
D&R operates a line in Arkansas from Russellville (where it interchanges with Union Pacific) t ...
(DR)
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Delta Valley and Southern Railway (DVS)
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De Queen and Eastern Railroad (DQE)
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East Camden and Highland Railroad
The East Camden and Highland Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in East Camden, Arkansas.
EACH operates a 47.6 mile (76.6 km) line in Arkansas from East Camden to Eagle Mills (where it interchanges with Union P ...
(EACH)
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El Dorado and Wesson Railway (EDW)
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Fordyce and Princeton Railroad (FP)
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Fort Smith Railroad
The Fort Smith Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
FSR operates an line in Arkansas from Fort Smith (where it interchanges with Kansas City Southern Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, and Arkansas a ...
(FSR)
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Kiamichi Railroad
The Kiamichi Railroad Company is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Hugo, Oklahoma.
KRR operates two lines totaling which intersect in Hugo, as well as maintaining trackage rights on an additional of track. The main line (1 ...
(KRR)
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Little Rock Port Authority Railroad (LRPA)
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Little Rock and Western Railway
The Little Rock and Western Railway is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Perry, Arkansas, and owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
LRWN operates over a line from Danville, Arkansas to Pulaski, Arkansas, then over of Union Pacific R ...
(LRWN)
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Louisiana and North West Railroad
The Louisiana and Northwest Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Homer, Louisiana.
LNW operates a line in Arkansas and Louisiana from McNeil, Arkansas (where it interchanges with Union Pacific Railroad), to Gibsland, Louisiana (wh ...
(LNW)
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North Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
The North Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad (NL&AR) operates more than 62 miles of track, extending from McGehee, Arkansas to Lake Providence, Louisiana. The NL&AR owns about 24 miles of the track, while about 41 miles are leased from the Lake Prov ...
(NLA)
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Ouachita Railroad
The Ouachita Railroad Company is a short-line railroad headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, United States.
OUCH operates a 26.2 mile line in Arkansas and Louisiana from El Dorado (where it interchanges with Union Pacific) to Lillie, Louisiana. ...
(OUCH)
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Prescott and Northwestern Railroad
The Prescott and Northwestern Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Prescott, Arkansas. It is operated by Arkansas Midland Railroad, which is owned by Genesee & Wyoming.
The railroad was chartered in 1890, for the purpose of cons ...
(PNW)
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Warren and Saline River Railroad
The Warren and Saline River Railroad is an short-line railroad connecting Cloquet, Arkansas to the Arkansas Midland Railroad at Warren. It has always been independent of larger carriers, and was previously owned by the Potlatch Corporation, a l ...
(WSR)
*West Memphis Base Railroad (WMBR)
Passenger railroads
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...
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Texas Eagle
The ''Texas Eagle'' is a daily passenger train route operated by Amtrak between Chicago and San Antonio in the central and western United States. Prior to 1988, the train was known as the ''Eagle''.
Trains #21 (southbound) and 22 (northbound) ...
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Heritage and scenic railroads
Northwestern Arkansas A&M Excursion*
Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway
The Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway is a for-profit passenger tourist railway established by the late Robert Dortch, Jr. and his wife Mary Jane in 1981 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The railway offers one-hour excursion tours, a catered lunc ...
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Fort Smith Trolley Museum
The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a railway museum, streetcar and railroad museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Fort Smith, in the U.S. state of Arkansas, which includes an operating heritage streetcar line. The museum opened in 1985, and operation of ...
Industrial rail operations
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Bauxite and Northern Railway
The Bauxite and Northern Railway is a Class III railroad operating in the United States state of Arkansas. BXN operates over of track in Bauxite, Arkansas. Traffic consists of largely of alumina, and the railroad hauls 4,059 carloads per yea ...
(BXN)
*Granite Mountain Quarries Railroad (GMQX)
Defunct railroads
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Inter-City Terminal Railway
Notes
References
Further reading
* Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (May 2002), . Retrieved February 11, 2005.
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* Hull, Clifton E. (1988) ''Shortline Railroads of Arkansas'', University of Central Arkansas Press,
Conway, Arkansas
Conway is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Faulkner County, located in the state's most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area, Central Arkansas. Although considered a suburb of Little Rock, Conway is unusual in that ...
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Railroads
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...
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 ...