Towards the end of 2015, we started noticing a black cat on the property. It was several weeks before he would let anybody approach him, but has since become a member of the museum as a Trolley Cat. Due to being a solid black cat he was named Midnight after The Midnight Special passenger train formerly operated […]
In mid-2014 yet another feline appeared, probably heard there was a vacancy. The very handsome grey tabby now called Narrow Gauge was at the museum for 3 or 4 weeks before he let anyone get a good look at him. But he’s quite friendly now and ‘gets along with the other cats as well as […]
Daylight is our resident ginger female — which is unusual — and made herself at home, first in the carbarn and then she moved into the library. Unofficially called Sunshine, she was later given the name Daylight, after a Southern Pacific train called the ‘Daylight Special’. Said to be a feisty cat who ‘likes to […]
May 2010 saw another new arrival. The fact that he’s a ‘big boy’ brought to mind the Union Pacific railroad (which ran Big Boy locomotives, the largest articulated ones ever built), so he was named Uncle Pete, which was the UP’s nickname. He was very thin when he first appeared at the museum and his head […]
A calico like Katy, Casey had the good fortune to be brought to the Fort Smith Trolley Museum from elsewhere, by choosing just the right house at which to solicit food. Dr. Martin’s daughter Nancy had been leaving food out for the stray at her home south of Fort Smith, but decided she couldn’t add […]