BXN operates over 7 miles (11 km) of track in Bauxite, Arkansas.

Traffic consists of largely of alumina, and the railroad hauls 4,059 carloads per year.

[1] In December 2012, Genesee & Wyoming acquired the railroad in its acquisition of RailAmerica.

[2] The Bauxite and Northern Railway was incorporated in Arkansas on November 13, 1906[3] and began operations in 1907,[1] for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from the town of Bauxite Saline County to a junction with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway.

For the railroad's first 100 years, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America.