The Warren and Saline River Railroad is an

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connecting Cloquet, Arkansas to the Arkansas Midland Railroad at

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. It has always been independent of larger carriers, and was previously owned by the

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, a

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company, until January 2010. WSR is currently operated by the Arkansas Midland Railroad and was sold by

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to sold to

Genesee & Wyoming Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) is an American short line railroad holding company, that owns or maintains an interest in 122 railroads in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and formerly Australia. It operates ...

Industries in 2014. WSR traffic generally consists of outbound

and other

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.Edward A. Lewis, American Shortline Railway Guide, 5th Edition,

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, 1996, p. 326

History

The Warren, Johnsville and Saline River Railroad was incorporated in August 1905 to serve logging operations in Bradley County. It opened a line from Warren south to Fullerton that year, and completed extensions from Fullerton to the

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near Hermitage in 1909 and to Goepel (Mt. Olive) in 1910. Interstate Commerce Commission, 119 I.C.C. 68 (1926): Valuation Docket No. 646, Warren, Johnsville & Saline River Railroad Company A new Warren and Saline River Railroad was incorporated in March 1920 and took over the property. The branch to Gospel was abandoned at some point, and in 1985 the mainline to Hermitage was cut back to Cloquet. The WSR also operates about five miles of the former Warren and Ouachita Valley Railroad, a connecting shortline which operated to the west from Warren. On December 5, 2014,

filed a Notice of Exemption with the Surface Transportation Board to acquire WSR along with AKMD and another affiliate Prescott & Northwestern Railroad (PNW) from Pinsly.http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/fc695db5bc7ebe2c852572b80040c45f/41855ad069fd290a85257da50054b547?OpenDocument

References

External links

Warren and Saline River Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren Saline River Railroad Arkansas railroads Railway companies established in 1920 1905 establishments in Arkansas Genesee & Wyoming Transportation in Bradley County, Arkansas Warren, Arkansas Railway lines opened in 1905