Ferromex 4696 and UP 1995, the CNW Heritage unit, in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Note that the shades of green on the Ferromex matches closely the green on the 1995.
Northbound Little Rock River Rail Streetcar crossing the Arkansas River on the Main Street Bridge that connects Little Rock to North Little Rock, AR (North Little Rock is to the right on the north side of the river).
The streetcar, Arkansas Queen Riverboat (which has lunch and diner cruises) and the WWII Submarine USS Razorback, which participated in the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.
The Arkansas River flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. At 1,469 miles, it is the sixth longest river in the United States, the second-longest tributary in the Mississippi-Missouri system, and the 45th longest river in the world. Its origin is in the Rocky Mountains in Lake County, Colorado, near Leadville, and its mouth is at Napoleon, Arkansas. The Arkansas River drainage basin covers nearly 195,000 sq mi. (A lot of the Arkansas River's water is glacier melt and it's interesting that it begins near Leadville, Colorado, home of the Leadville, Colorado & Southern Railroad