Arkansas Ties ... A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That, and a Whole Lot of Arkansas

Pulaski County Trivia First "Mule" Cars Made Appearance on City Streets in 1876 - The first "Mule" cars made their appearance on the streets of Little Rock in 1876.  Later the City Electric Street Railway Company obtained a charter permitting it to use electric or steam power.  The track was laid from Second and Louisiana streets to the southwestern part of the city.  Two small locomotives were purchased and the line put into operation July 4, 1888.  The locomotives each drew one or two cars as occasion demanded, and the round trip required an hour.  The company went bankrupt in 1895 and that's when electric cars began to appear.