In 1875, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway began in Tyler, Texas. James W. Paramore, who led a group of investors that later owned the company, saw this railroad as a way to establish St. Louis as the primary gateway for selling cotton from the southwest in eastern markets. Thus the St. Louis Southwestern Railway became better known as the Cotton Belt.
The film "End of the Line" is a heartwarming dramatic comedy set in the fictional town of Clifford, Ark. It focuses on the working class, tackling how the loss of a small town s main industry affects the local job market and its citizens.
The Arkansas Railroad Museum at Pine Bluff started as a conversation one evening almost 40 years ago at a restaurant inside Pine Bluff s Union Station, and Elizabeth Baresch Gaines, community activist and amateur historian, remembered that October 1983 night well.
It may have escaped general notice amid the daily blizzard of news. But courtesy of the General Assembly, there is now an Official Steam Locomotive of the State of Arkansas.