Warren and Saline River Railroad

Warren and Saline River Railroad
Reporting mark WSR
Locale Arkansas
Dates of operation 1920–
Track gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters Warren, Arkansas

The Warren and Saline River Railroad (reporting mark WSR) is an 8-mile (13 km) short-line railroad connecting Cloquet, Arkansas to the Arkansas Midland Railroad at Warren. It has always been independent of larger carriers, and has been owned by the Potlatch Corporation, a lumber company, since June 1959. WSR traffic generally consists of outbound lumber and other forest products.[1]

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 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad near Hermitage in 1909 and to Goepel (Mt. Olive) in 1910.[2] 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 branch to Hermitage was cut back to Cloquet. A short piece at Warren of the Warren and Ouachita Valley Railway, a subsidiary of the bankrupt Rock Island, was taken over in 1982.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Edward A. Lewis, American Shortline Railway Guide, 5th Edition, Kalmbach Publishing, 1996, p. 326
  2. ^ Interstate Commerce Commission, 119 I.C.C. 68 (1926): Valuation Docket No. 646, Warren, Johnsville & Saline River Railroad Company
Current

AKMD • ALM • AM • ARS • BXN • BNSF • CVYR • DKS • DQE • DR • DSRR • DVS • EACH • EDW • FP • FSR • KCS • KRR • LNW • LRPA • LRWN • MNA • OUCH • PNW • UP • WSR