Arkansas Code Title 14. Local Government § 14-186-209. Terminal railroads--Acquisition--Maintenance

(a) A municipal port authority shall have the power and authority to acquire, own, lease, locate, install, construct, equip, hold, maintain, control, and operate at harbors, ports, and river-rail and barge terminals a line of terminal railroads with necessary sidings, turn outs, spurs, branches, switches, yard tracks, bridges, trestles, and causeways; and in connection therewith and appurtenant thereto, shall have the further right to lease, install, construct, acquire, own, maintain, control, and use any and every kind or character of motive power and conveyances or appliances necessary or proper to carry passengers, goods, wares, and merchandise over, along, or upon the tracks of the railroads or other conveyances.

(c) The authority shall have the right and power with its terminal railroads to connect with or cross any other railroad upon payment of just compensation and to receive, deliver to, and transport the freight, passengers, and cars of common carrier railroads as though it were an ordinary common carrier.