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#1 Sloan

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Posted 03 July 2017 - 09:30 AM

 

 

SNIP:  The trolley route should be expanded across Garrison Avenue into the Belle Grove Historic District neighborhood to improve connectivity and serve as a people-mover for downtown, not as something that is viewed as solely a tourist attraction.

 

http://www.swtimes.c...town-fort-smith

 

If the plan becomes reality, Fort Smith will need to have replica trolleys from GOMACO to provide mass transit.  Fort Smith Trolley Museum has two streetcars in service; one from Fort Smith, the other from Hot Springs.  Neither could withstand the rigors of regular service.

 

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Posted 03 December 2017 - 05:52 PM

Here's YouTube of Fort Smith Trolley Museum's extension to county courthouse.  There's no indication, however, that this extra trackage would be the beginning of rail transit.

 

Note the silly wild west gun fight at the end.  I suspect some want that play acting to tie into the movie True Grit, a fiction-based-on-fact story based in Fort Smith.

 

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