Cotton Belt 819
St. Louis Southwestern 819 is maintained at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, by the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society. The #819 was the last new steam locomotive acquired by the Cotton Belt in 1943. It was built in the Pine Bluff Shops.
Louisiana politician Andrew R. Johnson (1856–1933) was once a depot agent for the Cotton Belt Railroad.
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