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The Hot Springs Railroad ran between Malvern, Arkansas and Hot Springs. It was sometimes called the "Diamond Jo Line" because of its developer, Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds. Construction of narrow-gauge tracks began in April 1875. Trains began operating a year later. On October 16, 1889, it was converted from a narrow-gauge railway to standard gauge in about three hours, after several months of preparation. The brick roundhouse and turntable in Malvern were modified for standard-gauge operation, and remained the principal locomotive shop for the railroad.〔"Shortline Railroads of Arkansas" by Clifton E. Hull, University of Oklahoma Press, 1969 http://www.oupress.com〕 Reynolds was a successful steamboat operator from Chicago, Illinois.〔"The University of Chicago Biographical Sketches, Volume 1" by Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed; 1922; pg 225-243〕 He gained the name "Diamond Jo" by marking his steamboats with the name "Jo" surrounded by a diamond. Reynolds was also known as the "Steamboat King."〔New York Times article, August 26, 1888, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10C15F9395413738DDDAF0A94D0405B8884F0D3〕〔http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=DIAMOND_JO_LINE〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hot Springs Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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