A Big "Boo-Boo" on the back

The front of this post card contains a picture of a Ten-Wheeler (4-6-0)

that was built in the early 1900s. It ran on the Warren & Ouachita Valley Railroad line - a total of 16 mles. This great website gives us the most detail that I could find about the railroad company: https://www.american-rails.com/ark.html I suggest that you visit this website if you have any questions about the history of railroading in the United States. This is what Adam Burns has to say about it: The Warren & Ouachita Valley Railway was jointly owned by the Arkansas Lumber Company and the Southern Lumber Company. It was incorporated in 1899 and began operations around 1901 connecting Banks, Arkansas with Warren, Arkansas a distance of about 16 miles. At both locations the W&OV had connections with Class I lines, the Rock Island at Banks, Arkansas and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway (StLIM&S) at Warren. The railroad was another of the "tap lines”, hauling the finished lumber products to the Rock Island and StLIM&S. However, it also operated direct logging trains to the mills as well. You can see this same locomtive on a different post card if you go to my blog entry from June 14, 2023.

Again, the post card is published by Railcards.com - the mysterious publisher. However, as I read the back of the post card and compared it to what Adam Burns says above, I think I found an error on the post card. It says that the Warren & Ouachita Valley Railway operated in Alabama. It was actually in Arkansas, as Adam says.