The Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society Inc. and the Arkansas Railroad Museum is celebrating Arkansas Heritage Month in May with displays of railroad art at the museum, 1700 Port Road.
Open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday, the Arkansas Railroad Museum has several examples of railroad art on display including:
• 819 Night Scene by Kenneth Ziegenbein, a photo that one first place at the Arkansas State Fair.
• Rock Island Bridge, Little Rock, photo by Images Inc.
• Watercolors by Earl Long, a longtime Cotton Belt steam engineer
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
• Scenes from a rail yard by Eric Maynard, director of the Delta Rivers Nature Center
• Drawings by Shawn Caleb Worthen
• Carrol Cloar print, Where the Southern Crosses the Yellow Dog
• Engine 819, pen and ink, signed and numbered artist proof from Richard DeSpain
• Quill and ink railroad scenes by Homer J. Craig, 1979
• Railroad shop scenes by Thomas Watts
Details: 535-8819.