On Sunday afternoon, March 29, 2009, I was driving to Union Station to get photos of trains when I saw Central Arkansas Transit's Streetcar 411 at the 7th and Main stop in North Little Rock, AR with tons of people getting on. There was a bus that brought them there to ride the streetcar to the Clinton Presidential Library.  I then followed the streetcar to the library and got the following photos:


Arrow Stage Lines bus at the 7th and Main streetcar stop of Central Arkansas Transit's streetcar line, about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 29.


Full CAT Streetcar 411, 7th and Main stop, North Little Rock, AR.


Heading south on Maple Street, North Little Rock.


Maple Street.


Streetcar 408 had to stop on Cumberland Street in the River Market in Little Rock because the red SUV on the left was over the line and the streetcar couldn't pass until it was moved. Meanwhile, No. 411 was on the Main Street Bridge a few blocks away and was delayed because of this incident with the SUV. The driver of 411 said she actually reversed the streetcar and took 411 back over the bridge into North Little Rock and made the North Little Rock loop again, before proceeding south into Little Rock.


No. 411 approaching the Clinton Library stop. The red building to the right is the old Rock Island Choctaw Passenger Depot, now the Clinton School of Public Service. The main Clinton Library is out of the picture to the right. Note the full trolley.


At the Clinton Library stop.


Passengers get off to go to the library.










All these people just got off the streetcar.


View of the former Choctaw Route depot, Streetcar 411, and the Clinton Library complex to the right.


A view of the William Clinton Presidential Center and Park (Clinton Library) looking east from downtown Little Rock. Left-Right: Unused Rock Island bridge over the Arkansas River, Clinton Library, Choctaw Route depot, electric pole for the streetcar line.




Still a pretty good crowd at the Clinton Library, although not as many cars as the first couple of years. It opened in November of 2004, as did  CAT's streetcar line. (The streetcars have about 100,000 to 150,000 riders a year, mainly patronized by tourists).

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