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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...
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    The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas (reporting mark SSW), operated the lines of its parent company, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway within the...
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  • The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas (known as "the Cotton Belt Route") bought the railroad in April 1910. The charter of the SN&ST was amended on...
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  • Railway St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway San Antonio, Uvalde...
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  • Tap Railroad in 1871, the Texas and St. Louis Railway (“T&SL”) constructed a three-foot gauge railroad from Gatesville, Texas through Arkansas to Bird's...
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  • Railway: St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway, Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway St. Louis Southwestern Railway: St. Louis Southwestern Railway...
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    South Texas Railway was chartered by Stephenville and Hamilton business interests, which sold the line in 1910 to the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas...
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    The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central...
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  • state of Texas. BNSF Railway (BNSF) Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Union Pacific Railroad (UP) There are no Class II Railroads in Texas. Alamo Gulf...
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  • The Lone Star was a passenger train operated by St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) between Memphis, and Dallas, with through connections via...
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    Texas, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2010 census. Kerens was established in 1881 when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas was...
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  • The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental...
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    of county land. By 1907, the Stephenville North and South Texas Railway had connected Hamilton with Stephenville. The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of...
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    Belt Rail Historical Society Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society (Older Site Archive) St. Louis Southwestern Railway from the Handbook of Texas Online...
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  • One of Commerce's chief advantages was that it was well connected by rail, boasting regular service on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas ("Cotton...
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    The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (St. L., I. M. & S.), commonly known as the Iron Mountain, was an American railway company that operated...
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    St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1522 is a two-cylinder, simple class T-54 4-8-2 "Mountain" type steam locomotive built in 1926 by the Baldwin Locomotive...
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    hub between railroads of the Southwest, the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, and railroads of the Southeast, the Louisville...
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    102 km) route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three days...
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  • Alfred J. Wigley. The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas extended its railway past Monterey in 1905. It had a population of 25 in 1910 and only became...
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  • Company gains control of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and subsidiary St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas. 1933 February 1: Southern Pacific Company...
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    seed for the 725-mile-long Texas and St. Louis Railway, which in turn formed the core of the later St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton...
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    Ribbon named passenger trains the St. Louisan, the Jeffersonian, the Penn Texas and the Spirit of St. Louis. The Southwestern Limited carried the train numbers...
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  • Dereco, Inc. January 19: The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas merges into lessee St. Louis Southwestern Railway. March: The Fonda, Johnstown and...
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    ISBN 0804723699. "St. Louis Southwestern Railway, "The Cotton Belt Route"". American-Rails, June 12, 2023. Retrieved October 8, 2023. Poor's Manual of Railroads...
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    Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ('Santa Fe'), St. Louis Southwestern Railway ('Cotton Belt'), Fort Worth & Denver Railway, Chicago, Rock Island and...
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    official state locomotive of Arkansas. It was completed in 1943 and was the last engine built by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, which was affectionately...
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    Union Pacific Corporation (category Railway companies established in 1969)
    Pacific Railroad, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, the SPCSL Corporation, and the Southern Pacific Transportation...
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    of the Texas and St. Louis Railway, with the town having been reached in 1882. This line later became the core of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company...
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    several times - becoming the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway and then (1892) the Tyler and Southwestern Railway. In 1903, the two public schools...
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