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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".
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 ...
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 ]
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.
Arkansas Railroad Museum is most famous for stabling SSW #819, the last steam locomotive built by the Cotton Belt.The 819 was restored to operation in 1986. It operated on 13 excursions between 1986 and 1993, but is currently out of service pending completion of an overhaul mandated by the Federal Railroad Administration.
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 ...
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.
Former St. Louis Southwestern Railway stations (9 P) Pages in category "St. Louis Southwestern Railway" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.