August 13, 2012

The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad (M&NA) was a regional carrier that, at its peak, stretched from Neosho, Missouri, to Helena (Phillips County). The railroad was plagued with weather-induced disasters, periods of labor unrest, questionable decisions by absentee managers and owners, unforgiving topography, poor economic conditions, fires, and bad luck. Organized as the M&NA in 1906, it existed for only four decades.