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The Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway is a for-profit passenger tourist railway established by the late Robert Dortch, Jr. and his wife Mary Jane in 1981 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The railway offers one-hour excursion tours, a catered luncheon train and a catered dinner train - each lasting a little more than one hour, from April ...
The railroad began as the Eureka Springs Railway in 1883 as a line from the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway ("Frisco") in Seligman, MO, reaching the resort town of Eureka Springs, AR in 1883. [1] In May of 1899, the line was conveyed to a newly-formed company, the St. Louis and North Arkansas Railroad , which intended to build all the way to ...
Elliott and Mount Holly Railway: Eureka Springs Railway: 1883 1899 St. Louis and North Arkansas Railroad: Fayetteville and Little Rock Railroad: SLSF: 1886 1926 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Fort Smith, Paris and Dardanelle Railway: 1887 Fort Smith and Southern Railway: SLSF: 1886 1887 St. Louis and San Francisco Railway
Before any construction work had been done, it was consolidated with the Eureka Springs Railway Company of Arkansas to form the Eureka Springs Railway Company. Articles of consolidation dated February 27, 1882, were filed in Missouri October 27, 1883, and in Arkansas November 1, 1883. No accounting records of this company are obtainable.
Public transit in Eureka Springs began in 1891 when 10 mulecars began operating on city streets under the Eureka Springs Electric Light & Street Railway Co. [2] [3] In the late 1890s, the mulecars were replaced by electric streetcars, which would operate in the city until 1920.
Eureka Springs Railway: 1882 1899 St. Louis and North Arkansas Railway: Excelsior Springs Railroad: WAB: 1893 1897 Kansas City, Excelsior Springs and Northern Railway: Forest Park and Central Railroad: RI: 1877 1884 St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad: Fort Scott and Carthage Railroad: SLSF: 1881 1882 Kansas and Missouri Railroad
From 1997 until 2000, the White River Scenic Railroad had operated an excursion train from Flippin, Arkansas to Calico Rock, Arkansas. [3] Unit grain trains sometimes run from the interchange at Pleasant Hill, MO to the Tyson Foods feed mill at Bergman, AR and back empty.
On May 10, 2014, Eureka Springs became the first city in Arkansas to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. On May 12, 2015, Eureka Springs passed a Non-Discrimination Ordinance (Ord. 2223), with voters choosing 579 for to 261 against. [8] It became the first city in Arkansas to have such a law to cover LGBT residents and tourists. But a ...