Out & About

Out & About: Antique Trains (and Trolleys too!)

antique train car at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum

I like trains. I’m not entirely sure why, but I always have. Trains are fun. Growing up, I had a little model railroad in our basement and a train conductor hat that I would wear around the house. Coincidentally, my grandmother has a house abutting the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) rail line, which was turned into a walking trail. I loved walking along that trail with my grandma and looking for old railroad ties and pieces of forgotten tracks. So, as you can imagine, it was with great excitement that Sarah and I stumbled upon some train cars and a caboose from the MKT line just sitting around in Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

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