Caddo Valley Railroad
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Caddo Valley Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Glenwood, Arkansas
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CVYR operates a 52 mile line in Arkansas from Gurdon, Arkansas
(where it interchanges with Union Pacific) to Bird Mill, Arkansas.
The line was initially owned by Missouri Pacific, a predecessor of Union Pacific, and was sold to Arkansas Midland Railroad (AKMD) in 1992, then in 2000 sold by AKMD to its present owners under a forced sale ordered by the Surface Transportation Board
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CVYR and AKMD are currently involved in a controversy regarding a planned sale of CVYR to Pioneer, a shortline operator. AKMD claims that, under the provisions of the sale, before the line can be sold to another party, AKMD must be given the first opportunity to repurchase it. A hearing is currently pending as of May 2006. http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/51d7c65c6f78e79385256541007f0580/bf38846828e307248525716c006a0353?OpenDocument
As of September 2010, Bean Lumber of Glenwood, AR (the main customer & owner of the line) closed it's doors. The CVYR has not provided service since that time. A rail has been rolled near the AR-53 crossing, and a red flag rendering the line out of service beyond that point.
Arkansas Midland has been providing service between the UP interchange and Arkansas Route 53 (northwest of town) to service the Georgia-Pacific saw mill on US 67. MM GP10 #7530, presumably owned by the Caddo Valley, remains in unservicable condition at the old open air shop in Antoine, AR. Supposedly everything has been sold to a scrapper.
Glenwood, Arkansas
Glenwood is a city in Pike and Montgomery counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The population was 1,751 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Glenwood is located at ....
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CVYR operates a 52 mile line in Arkansas from Gurdon, Arkansas
Gurdon, Arkansas
Gurdon is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,276 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Gurdon is located at ....
(where it interchanges with Union Pacific) to Bird Mill, Arkansas.
The line was initially owned by Missouri Pacific, a predecessor of Union Pacific, and was sold to Arkansas Midland Railroad (AKMD) in 1992, then in 2000 sold by AKMD to its present owners under a forced sale ordered by the Surface Transportation Board
Surface Transportation Board
The Surface Transportation Board of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The STB was established in 1996 to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the...
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CVYR and AKMD are currently involved in a controversy regarding a planned sale of CVYR to Pioneer, a shortline operator. AKMD claims that, under the provisions of the sale, before the line can be sold to another party, AKMD must be given the first opportunity to repurchase it. A hearing is currently pending as of May 2006. http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/51d7c65c6f78e79385256541007f0580/bf38846828e307248525716c006a0353?OpenDocument
As of September 2010, Bean Lumber of Glenwood, AR (the main customer & owner of the line) closed it's doors. The CVYR has not provided service since that time. A rail has been rolled near the AR-53 crossing, and a red flag rendering the line out of service beyond that point.
Arkansas Midland has been providing service between the UP interchange and Arkansas Route 53 (northwest of town) to service the Georgia-Pacific saw mill on US 67. MM GP10 #7530, presumably owned by the Caddo Valley, remains in unservicable condition at the old open air shop in Antoine, AR. Supposedly everything has been sold to a scrapper.