Railroad Name: | Fordyce and Princeton Railroad |
Marks: | FP |
Locale: | Arkansas |
Start Year: | 1890 |
End Year: | 2023 |
Hq City: | Crossett, Arkansas |
The Fordyce and Princeton Railroad Company was a short-line railroad headquartered in Crossett, Arkansas.
F&P operated 57miles of line from Fordyce, Arkansas (where it interchanged with Union Pacific), to an interchange with Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad at Crossett.
F&P traffic generally consisted of lumber and paper products.
F&P incorporated on February 25, 1890, as a 9.4miles line between Fordyce and Toan, Arkansas. The railroad expanded, then downsized to a mere 1.14miles 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. In 2023, F&P was merged into the Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad's system.[1]