Fordyce and Princeton Railroad
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Fordyce and Princeton Railroad | |
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Reporting marks | FP |
Locale | Arkansas |
Dates of operation | 1890 – present |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) |
Headquarters | Crossett, Arkansas |
The Fordyce and Princeton Railroad Company (AAR reporting marks FP) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Crossett, Arkansas.
F&P operates 57 miles of line from Fordyce, Arkansas (where it interchanges with Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad), to an interchange with Union Pacific at Crossett.
F&P traffic generally consists of lumber and paper products.
F&P incorporated on February 25, 1890 as a 9.4 mile line between Fordyce and Toan, Arkansas. The railroad expanded, then downsized to a mere 1.14 miles of switching track near Fordyce. After the liquidation of Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, F&P acquired the line between Fordyce and Crossett, via Banks, Craney, Hermitage, Ingalls, Vick, Broad, Emery, and Whitlow.
F&P was owned by Georgia Pacific from 1963 until March 2004, when it was sold to Genesee and Wyoming, a holding company operating several short-line railroads in the United States.