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Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

Class I railroads

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

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Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operated in 10 Midwestern United States, Midwestern and Southeastern United States, Southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ark ...

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Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

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Regional railroads

Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad The Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, LLC is a Class II Regional Railroad in the U.S. states of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. The company is headquartered in Carthage, Missouri. It is not to be confused with the Missouri and North Arka ...

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Shortline and terminal railroads

Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad The Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad is a short-line railroad in northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas. Opened in 1908, it has undergone several corporate reorganizations, but has remained independent of larger carriers. In 2004, ...

(ALM) * Arkansas Midland Railroad (AKMD) *

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 with K ...

(AM) * Arkansas Southern Railroad (ARS) * Camden and Southern Railroad (CSR) * Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad (DR) *

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. History Originally constructed in the 1850's as a Narrow-gauge r ...

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De Queen and Eastern Railroad The DeQueen and Eastern Railroad , also referred to as the De Queen and Eastern Railroad, is a Class III short-line railroad located in southwest Arkansas and owned by Patriot Rail Company of Jacksonville, Florida. It is operated along with its ...

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East Camden and Highland Railroad The East Camden and Highland Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad with two main facilities in East Camden, Arkansas, and in Minden, Louisiana. It began operation in East Camden Industrial Park on July 24, 1972. EACH operates a 47.6& ...

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El Dorado and Wesson Railway The El Dorado & Wesson Railway is a Shortline railroad, shortline rail carrier in the state of Arkansas, Its line runs 5.5 miles from El Dorado, Arkansas to Newell, Arkansas. History The backstory of the line begins with the opening of a small lu ...

(EDW) * Fordyce and Princeton Railroad (FP) *

Fort Smith Railroad The Fort Smith Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas. FSR operates of line in Arkansas from Fort Smith (where it interchanges with Kansas City Southern Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, and Arkansas ...

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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) * Little Rock Port Authority Railroad (LRPA) *

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 ...

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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 (w ...

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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 Pro ...

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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. O ...

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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 const ...

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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 ...

(WSR) * West Memphis Base Railroad (WMBR)

Passenger railroads

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 intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

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Texas Eagle The ''Texas Eagle'' is a long-distance passenger train operated daily by Amtrak on a route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three days per week, t ...

Heritage and scenic railroads

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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 lun ...

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

Bauxite and Northern Railway The Bauxite & 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 year. ...

(BXN) * Granite Mountain Quarries Railroad (GMQX)

Defunct railroads

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Inter-City Terminal Railway Inter-city rail services are express trains that run services that connect cities over longer distances than commuter or regional trains. They include rail services that are neither short-distance commuter rail trains within one city area nor ...