The Fort Smith Streetcar Restoration Association is dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of electric powered streetcars, railroad equipment, transportation and other technology that existed during this period in history, and to providing a unique educational experience to the visiting public.

We operate a 1926 Briney safety car that operated in Fort Smith from 1926- 1933. Our story is the history of public transportation not only in Fort Smith but over 1,000 USA cities. We have a mural designed by John Bell. Jr depicking the history from 1883 to 1933. We have City Busses representing the history from 1933 t6o the early 1970s.

Our second restoration the Hot Springs Street railway 50 is almost completed. It is a 1904 double truck wooden car. Visitors will be able to ride it soon.

We have on display at the museum the Frisco 4003 steam engion, Cabooses, Mkt Pasenger car and other Rail equipment.

Our big non restoration project now is the expansion of our library and archives. We intend for it to becom an important research tool for all historical forms of transportion and other technology of the period such as radios, automobiles, gas engines and tractors, also early machinery. Most local libraries do not keep this information.

The Fort Smith Streetcar restoration Association Inc was founded in 1979 to restore Fort Smith Streetcars. In !985 the Museum building was built. In 1991 the museum statred offering Rides on an original Fort Smith Light and Traction company Briney Safety car on 3 blocks of track bordering the Fort Smith Historical site and by the Fort Smith Museum of History in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Today the museum has 3/4 miles of track running from Garrison Avenue to the Fort Smith national Cemetery.

We have added a 6,000 f00t building to store rubber tired vehicles unrestored Streetcar bodies and other machinery, A machine shop was added to the Car barn and we have a 4,000 sq ft building being adaptively redone for a Library and Archive.