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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 ...
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". It was also the last locomotive ...
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]
The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in the Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1944, [1] it restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of vehicles spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States.
New York Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Steam Locomotive No. 765: 1944 built New Haven, IN: IA-01 Great Northern Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1355: 4-6-0 then 4-6-2: 1909 built 1924 rebuilt 2004 NRHP 3400 Sioux River Rd., Sioux City, Iowa
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 ...
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas (reporting mark SSW), operated the lines of its parent company, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway within the state of Texas. The St. Louis Southwestern, known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply the Cotton Belt, was organized on January 12, 1891, although it had its origins in a rail line founded in 1871 in Tyler, Texas that ...