Cotton Belt Passenger Service
The St. Louis Southwestern ran passenger trains from St. Louis to Texas and from Memphis, Tenn., to Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas, Tex. Cotton Belt's Lone Star operated from Memphis Union Station to Dallas Union Terminal with a branch from Lewisville, Arkansas to Shreveport. The Morning Star was the second named train over much of this route, operating out of St. Louis Union Station.
The Cotton Belt began a series of passenger train cutbacks in the early 1950s. The railroad had 25 steam engines and four gas electric motor cars available for passenger service in 1949. By late 1952 nine diesels had replaced the steam locomotives and motorcars and passenger train mileage had been trimmed considerably. The last Cotton Belt passenger train, #8 operated on November 30, 1959 from Pine Bluff, Arkansas to East St. Louis, Illinois.
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