Rainbows And Unicorns | Below a brilliant sky on the evening of Monday, April 15, 2024, a pair of the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad's Alco C420s rest at the depot in Springdale, AR. A haven ... (more)

An officer's special is visited from Ft. Smith/Van Buren. The officials are in a hurry to make their dinner reservations at a restaurant in Fayetteville. Chances are they might have bent the thr... (more)

ACes In The Hole | A colorful lashup of four SD70ACes leads the southbound Fort Smith Turn out of Springdale, AR at dusk on a hot Wednesday, June 28, 2023 evening. Despite the different liv... (more)

Modern Day Classics | Just a few hundred feet south of the Springdale, AR depot, Alco C420s numbers 44 and 68 pull their Van Buren-bound excursion train up to speed on the rainy morning of ... (more)

May Monday Morning | Fifteen minutes past eight o'clock on the sunny morning of Monday, May 1, 2023, the southbound Arkansas & Missouri excursion train passes a Tyson feed mill in Springdal... (more)

Just shy of the 10th anniversary of my first visit I made it back to the Alco shrine and found this ex D&H unit basking the soft northern Arkansas sun.

Business took me to Ft. Smith so only a slight detour was needed to do some railfanning and I found this. Freshly in from Essex Terminal but some what obscure. I find no shots of it on this site... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: Finally having made it back to Springdale, the S/B Monett Turn follows the RCL job, like a predator stalks its prey. The RCL job is finished for the day and is heading b... (more)

Returning to the Springdale, AR depot, the Arkansas & Missouri Holiday Express rolls along on a cloudy December 11, 2022 afternoon. Santa Claus can be seen with his arm out the window of the lead ... (more)

A big departure for the all-Alco/MLW roster of Arkansas & Missouri was the arrival of a trio of EMD SD70ACe locomotives in 2013. On May 7, 2014, A&M No. 72 is leading its two sisters on the freigh... (more)

A rainy Saturday, November 26, 2022 evening has the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad's Holiday Express train rolling past George's, Inc. in Springdale, AR as it heads for Johnson where it will change ... (more)

Having worked a couple of industries in the Fayetteville area, the Arkansas & Missouri Saturday local heads north as light engines approaching Springdale, AR at the end of a sunny but chilly Novem... (more)

On the partly cloudy morning of September 24, 2022, a pair of Alco C420s lead the southbound Arkansas & Missouri excursion train past the George's, Inc. plant in Springdale, AR.

A&M ALCO's in 2022: On what's shaping up to be a pleasant day in Northwest Arkansas, the Springdale Switch Job finishes up servicing a customer that receives flour hoppers. Both 56 and 57 s... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After having finished putting together their train, the Springdale Local proceeds down the Springdale Industrial Lead to service customers. Both 56 and 57 saw service on... (more)