ABOUT THE SPAVINAW & HONEY CREEK RAILROAD:
The Spavinaw and Honey Creek Railroad was founded in the early part of the last Century to serve the customers and passengers in the Wann, Beaty, Word and Rootville communities of Benton County, Arkansas. Its two terminals were Decatur, Arkansas and Southwest City, Missouri.
The S & HC flourished for nearly fifty years, running multiple freight and passenger trains each day. But now, set in the 1950s, passenger service is limited to a diesel Mac railbus and freight service to a single customer, the Summit Logging Company.
The railroad owns two fishing lodges, W.I.L.D. H.U.T.T. on Spavinaw Creek and Thornbrook on Honey Creek. The railbus schedule is set to serve fishermen’s needs and has become affectionately known as the Trout Line.
Jeff Davis started the S & HC years ago as a 4 X 15 foot N-gauge layout, but with his move to Gravette nine years ago, it became a G-gauge garden railway. The original garden layout has about 60 feet of track. A new section was added in the Spring of 2015, nearly doubling its size.
Originally, it ran on rail power, but now, everything has been converted to battery power.
The Spavinaw and Honey Creek Railroad was founded in the early part of the last Century to serve the customers and passengers in the Wann, Beaty, Word and Rootville communities of Benton County, Arkansas. Its two terminals were Decatur, Arkansas and Southwest City, Missouri.
The S & HC flourished for nearly fifty years, running multiple freight and passenger trains each day. But now, set in the 1950s, passenger service is limited to a diesel Mac railbus and freight service to a single customer, the Summit Logging Company.
The railroad owns two fishing lodges, W.I.L.D. H.U.T.T. on Spavinaw Creek and Thornbrook on Honey Creek. The railbus schedule is set to serve fishermen’s needs and has become affectionately known as the Trout Line.
Jeff Davis started the S & HC years ago as a 4 X 15 foot N-gauge layout, but with his move to Gravette nine years ago, it became a G-gauge garden railway. The original garden layout has about 60 feet of track. A new section was added in the Spring of 2015, nearly doubling its size.
Originally, it ran on rail power, but now, everything has been converted to battery power.