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Arkansas Railroad Museum is located on Port Road in Pine Bluff, Arkansas at the former Cotton Belt (SSW) yard. The former SSW shops are occupied by the historic collection of railroad equipment. This museum is about an hour's drive from Little Rock, AR, and is one of the largest displays of historic railroad equipment in Arkansas.
Opened in 1964, the museum was founded by Winthrop Rockefeller before he became Governor of Arkansas.The museum housed Rockefeller's collection of antique and classic cars until his death, and in 1975 the collection was sold to collector Bill Harrah for $947,000, which included 68 motorized vehicles and three that were horse-drawn. [2]
Hope station is a passenger rail station in Hope, Arkansas. The station is located on Amtrak 's Texas Eagle line. Trains run daily between Chicago, Illinois , and San Antonio, Texas , and continue to Los Angeles, California , 2,728 miles (4,390 km) total, three days a week.
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Brinkley is the most populous city in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,700, [3] down from 3,188 in 2010.. Located within the Arkansas Delta, Brinkley was founded as a railroad town in 1872.
Imboden is located in northwestern Lawrence County at (36.201766, -91.179899 It is on the south side of the Spring River, a southeast-flowing tributary of the Black River.
Lincoln County's geography is defined by two physiographic regions of Arkansas: the Arkansas Timberlands and the Arkansas Delta (in Arkansas, usually referred to as "the Delta"). These two regions are separated by Bayou Bartholomew , the world's longest bayou, which approximately splits the county into eastern and western halves with ...
Although the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad (later a part of C&NW) provided passenger service between Chicago and Evanston, there was a need to provide alternative service between the two cities. In 1861, a charter was given to the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; however, the line began operation on May 1, 1885, after many years of funding and ...