The Fort Smith Trolley Museum, in cooperation with the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad, will host "Trains, Trains, and More Trains: Come and Have Dinner With Us" on Aug. 27. The fundraiser for the nonprofit museum will include a scenic 70-mile round trip through the Boston Mountains from Van Buren to Winslow and back, along with dinner.
The story of the streetcar begins in Fort Smith in 1883, when the Fort Smith Railway Company offered the area's first public transportation via three mule-drawn rail cars.