Cotton Belt Resource

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amrail

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November 2005
From: Missouri
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Cotton Belt Resource

Posted by amrail on Monday, March 7, 2011 9:23 PM

I'm needing for modeling purposes to find a book or a source for Cotton Belt Diesels in color before the SP merger. Anyone care to recommend anything?

Thanks in advance.

samfp1943

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June 2003
From: South Central,Ks
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Posted by samfp1943 on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 7:37 PM

The following links may be resources for your search of things Cotton Belt and or Southern Pacific.

Hope they get you pointed towards the answers you seek; Also you might check Wikipedia's site for information on SSWRR and Cotton Belt.

Good Luck with your search!

http://www.sphts.org/resources/links.php

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cotton-Belt-Rail-Historical-Society/127065434004138

CSSHEGEWISCH

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From: Burbank IL (near Clearing)
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:13 AM

You might find this link to be useful: http://ncespee.railfan.net/

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SSW9389

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From: Shelbyville, Kentucky
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Posted by SSW9389 on Monday, March 14, 2011 6:40 PM

For color photos Steve Goen's Cotton Belt Color Pictorial is probably the best. Goen used a number of R. S. Plummer photos to illustrate early Cotton Belt diesels. It is out of print and costly to come by. Joe Strapac's Cotton Belt Locomotives gives a detailed locomotive history of the subject up to the mid 1970s.

COTTON BELT: Runs like a Blue Streak!