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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 Arkansas Railroad which connected Joplin, Missouri, with Helena, Arkansas, from 1906 to 1946.

Operations
MNA operates approximately MNA operates a secondary line from just east of Fort Scott, Kansas east to Clinton, Missouri. This secondary line interchanges with MNA's Pleasant Hill–Diaz mainline in Nevada, Missouri. MNA also operates a branch line from Carthage, MO to Joplin, MO that interchanges with MNA's Pleasant Hill–Diaz mainline At Carthage, with the Canadian Pacific Kansas City in Joplin, and with the BNSF in Joplin. A MNA branch line that branches off of the Carthage–Joplin branch line originates from an interchange in Webb City, Missouri and terminates in Atlas, Missouri. MNA also operates several miles of industrial trackage in the city of Springfield; this segment is disconnected from the rest of the MNA system and traffic is hauled via BNSF to and from the Aurora interchange. Here MNA interchanges with BNSF at Springfield, MO. Other operated segments are leased from the Union Pacific and BNSF Railroads. MNA has rail yards in Carthage, MO, Nevada, MO, Joplin, MO, Aurora, MO, Cotter, AR, and Batesville, AR. MNA operates unit coal trains to the Independence Power Plant near Newark, Arkansas. The Branson Scenic Railway, which runs on track owned by the MNA, operates the "Ozark Zephyr" from Branson, Missouri. Trains operate mostly south into Arkansas but occasionally north to Galena, Missouri, depending on MNA traffic and/or track work. The restored 1906 depot it operates out of is across from Branson Landing in historic downtown Branson. From 1997 until 2000, the White River Scenic Railroad had operated an excursion train from Flippin, Arkansas to Calico Rock, Arkansas. Unit grain trains sometimes run from the interchange at Pleasant Hill, MO to the Tyson Foods feed mill at Bergman, AR and back empty. MNA also runs Union Pacific unit coal trains to unload at the Independence Power Plant in Newark, AR, then hands them back to UP in Newport, AR. == Genesee & Wyoming Control ==
Genesee & Wyoming Control
(All as of 2024): The Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, owned by Genesee & Wyoming, holds 505 total miles, 186 of them in Arkansas, 4 in Kansas and 315 in Missouri. MNA has a maximum capacity of 286,000 gross pounds per railcar. There are a few interchanges as well: BNSF (Aurora, Missouri, Joplin, Missouri, and Springfield, Missouri); Canadian Pacific Kansas City (Joplin, Missouri); Union Pacific (Kansas City, Missouri and Newport, Arkansas). == History ==
History
The MNA mainline between Kansas City and Newport originated as the former Missouri Pacific Railroad's White River Line, which was initially chartered in 1883 and was part of the MoPac's mainline between Kansas City and Memphis, Tennessee. The MNA began operations on December 13, 1992, and purchased the segment from Bergman, Arkansas, to Guion, Arkansas, from MoPac. When Railtex took over operations on the White River Line, they used a handful of older-generation Electro-Motive products including several GP40s, GP35s, GP38s, road slugs, SD40s, and a GP20. After the G&W acquisition in 2012, ten ex-Southern Pacific SD40M-2s were purchased from the Union Pacific to replace the GP40s in road service. In 2018, most of the SD40M-2s were repainted from the UP lightning scheme into the G&W corporate orange. In late 2022, MNA began phasing out several SD40s, and have replaced them with ex-BNSF General Electric C44-9Ws. Since 2022, approximately 12 C44-9Ws have joined the railroad roster. ==References==
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