Prescott & Northwestern

Company History: The P&NW was established in 1890 by the Ozan Lumber Company to build from the railhead in Prescott, Arkansas to the timber stands around Tokio and Highland, 31 miles to the northwest. The lumber mill was in Prescott. Much of the early traffic was forest products as one would expect but they also moved Elberta peaches, gravel and gypsum. Until 1945, mail and passenger service was provided with a railbus which the locals called the Elberta Zephyr with a mixed freight pulled by steam moving on Fridays. That ended in 1945 when the gypsum mine closed. All but 5 miles of track serving industries in Prescott was closed. The rail was left in place with the hope that the railroad would be reactivated when new growth of trees was ready to cut. In 1994, Ozan successor Potlatch Corporation announced that it didn’t plan to use the line to move cut logs and the long disused line was finally officially abandoned. Potlatch finally closed the mill and sold the P&NW to the Pinsly Railroad shortline group. At that point, a Firestone Rubber plant became the only customer. At the end of 2014, the Genesee & Wyoming shortline group acquired the Pinsly Railroad shortlines.

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