Here
are a few photos of Arakansas and Missouri Railroad locomotives
and facilities in Springdale, Arkansas October 6, 2008. Also, since
Wal-Mart's worldwide Corporate Headquarters are located in nearby
Bentonville, AR, I drove up there to look at the very first Wal-Mart
store (started by Sam Walton, May 9, 1950). The initial store, called Walton's 5-10, is now the Wal-Mart museum. (Ken Ziegenbein photos)
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A&M visitors center and passenger station in for their train rides from Springdale to Van Buren on some days.
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Springdale's area code is 479, in case anyone wants to get more information. Their webssite:
http://www.arkansasmissouri-rr.com/index.html
![](100608Sdale-AandMRROffice-15R.jpg)
A&M's headquarters on Emma Avenue.
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This line is former Frisco, then BN, now A&M.
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A&M No. 20, 952 and 54.
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A&M No, 3554 plus two others. For the full roster of A&M's locomotives, click here:
http://www.arkansasmissouri-rr.com/Locomotive%20Roster07.htm
![](100608Sdale-AandMRRLocos-20R.jpg)
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![](100608Waltons5anddime-4R.jpg)
The
very first store in the Wal-Mart empire was called Walton's 5-10,
started by Sam Walton, May 9, 1950 at this location in Bentonville,
Arkanssa. It's now the Wal-Mart Museum, but contined to be a store
until the early 1980s.
![](100608WlMartVisCenter-7R.jpg)
![](100608WMartPlague-12R.jpg)
![](100608DntownBentonville-6R.jpg)
Downtown
Bentonville, Arkansas, October 6. Bentonville is in nortwest Arkansas,
near Missouri, close to Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale (Springdale is headquarters for the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad, J. B. Hunt and Tyson Foods amoung other companies).
![](100608WMartHqtrsBtnville2E.jpg)
Corporate Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville.
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