Cotton Belt No. 819, Locomotive Wiki

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Cotton Belt No. 819 is a custom-built L1 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) themselves in 1943 at their Pine Bluff Shops in Pine Bluff, AR, but the boiler was supplied by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, PA. It was the last of a class of 20 locomotives to be built and the only locomotive of its kind to survive in preservation. It was retired from regular revenue service in 1953 and immediately donated to the city of