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State and regional transportation planners, along with mass transit enthusiasts, are peering into the future to measure the merits of and public interest in commuter light rail in northwest Arkansas.
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The highly anticipated Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, constructed in the early 20th century, provided shipping and passenger railway access for the first time to isolated Ozark Mountain communities such as Eureka Springs, terminating in Helena on the Arkansas Delta. But as historian Kenneth Barnes reveals, the promising railway — plagued by infrastructure failures, labor strikes and deadly anti-union mob violence — was abandoned.