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The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
In all, a total of 20 locomotives were ever built with the first 10 locomotives being built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1930 and being delivered to the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (a.k.a. "Cotton Belt Route") that same year in 1930, and the other 10 locomotives being built by the Cotton Belt themselves at their own Pine Bluff Shops in 1937, 1942 and 1943.
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt Route) Steam Locomotive #336 is a historic railroad steam locomotive, located at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a Class D3 2-6-0 Mogul-style locomotive, built in 1909 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . [ 2 ]
St. Louis Southwestern Railway: Grant City and Southern Railroad: CB&Q: 1898 1901 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Gray's Point Terminal Railway: SSW: 1896 1958 St. Louis Southwestern Railway: Greenfield Railroad: SLSF: 1884 1886 Greenfield and Northern Railroad: Greenfield and Northern Railroad: SLSF: 1886 1895 Kansas City, Fort Scott ...
Cotton Belt 819 is a L-1 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive and is also the official state locomotive of Arkansas. [2] It was completed in February 1943 and was the last engine built by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, which was affectionately known as "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt".
Two additional diesel locomotives, GVRR 2014 and GVRR 2016 are also used. Passengers board at Grapevine's historic Main Street station and the train operates over a 21-mile (34 kilometer) route to the Fort Worth Stockyards on former trackage that was owned by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (aka the "Cotton Belt"). [1]
The company was closely affiliated with the Texas and St. Louis Railway Company in Texas, both corporations having been under the same control and their properties operated under a joint system. A receiver of the property was appointed on January 12, 1884, by the United States Circuit Court, under whom the property was operated to May 1, 1886.
St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 95 9620–9714 Now with Union Pacific Railroad and renumbered UP 1962, 1984–1987, 1990–1993, 1997–2000, 2003–2014. Now numbered 1004-1170. (some reclassified as GP62) [2] Texas Mexican Railway: 2 869–870 Later Helm Financial and renumbered HLCX 7700–7701.