Wandering around the former Cotton Belt shops now occupied by the Arkansas Railroad Museum finds 3 unique locomotives sitting on the transfer table tracks. Little Rock and Western C-420 102 was ... (more)

Little Rock & Western C420 102 stands on the engine house lead at the road’s headquarters location in Perry, Arkansas.

Alco in the House

Arkansas short line Little Rock & Western’s engine shed in Perry is located immediately behind the former Rock Island station, which is still identified by its ... (more)

Among the local cotton gins, BAYL 500 rests for the night. LRWN 500 was built as GM&O 707 in 8/1969. After the GM&O/IC merger, it served the ICG as 9526. It would go on to the Bay Line as 500. Whe... (more)

A northbound LRWN job enters it's home rails after departing UP's North Little Rock yard, leaving behind the state capitol.

Little Rock and Western C420 sits in front of company offices in Perry, Arkansas. This is an 79 mile section of the Rock Island Chocktaw route.

An old ALCO waits for its next day of work.

Little Rock & Western GP10 103 pulls a single car west through Ola, Arkansas.

Train Time at Perry

The Little Rock & Western’s entire roster is visible in this photo at the railroad’s home base in Perry, Arkansas. C420 101, which has recently arrived from... (more)

The railroad day is about to begin in Perry, Arkansas. As soon as one of the Little Rock & Western’s C420’s arrives with the train from Little Rock, GP9 103 will go to work with some switching... (more)

OK, Little Rock isn't New York. However, with a 2014 MSA population of about 730,000, it is a far sight from tiny Perry, population 314, where this train originated a few hours earlier. After in... (more)

The homeward-bound turn passes a derailed hopper on the siding near Murray Dam as it heads out of Little Rock into the setting sun.

Little Rock & Western C420 101 has just arrived at the road’s Perry, Arkansas headquarters from Little Rock. One car of its train needs to continue west, but a motive power change is needed. The... (more)

Back in the days when LR&W maintained a MOW base in tiny Roland, the return leg of the turn to North Little Rock appears in the gap between two old boxcars in mw service. That crew member is taki... (more)

In pre-G&W days, the homebound leg of LR&W's Little Rock turn climbs out of the Arkansas River valley behind a C420/geep combo.