In 1875, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway began in Tyler, Texas. James W. Paramore, who led a group of investors that later owned the company, saw this railroad as a way to establish St. Louis as ...

Plans are still developing, but City Center Waco hopes to have a funding request ready by December for redevelopment of the disused Cotton Belt railroad bridge over the Brazos River.

The new owners of the Cotton Belt railroad bridge want the public’s help in determining the future of this piece of Waco’s past. The nonprofit City Center Waco received the iron truss bridge last year ...

Dallas officials want to do away with a planned DART station near the intersection of Coit Road and the Cotton Belt railroad crossing. But Plano leaders want the station on DART's first east-west ...

PINE BLUFF, Ark. — All Aboard!!!! Discover Arkansas made their way to Pine Bluff, Ark. to check out the Arkansas Railroad Museum. In 1983 a few volunteers formed the Cotton Belt Rail Historic Society.

Culminating on Saturday this year, the Fordyce on the Cotton Belt Festival will get "back on track" after being postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic. The festivity was first launched in 1981 to ...

A look at the DART Green Line stop in downtown Carrollto. The 26-mile DART Cotton Belt rail line goes to its public comment phase in a few weeks to provide expanded train coverage to the northwest of ...

Begun in 1981, this year marks the 42nd anniversary of the Fordyce on the Cotton Belt Fest, an event founded to celebrate the unique railroad history of Fordyce and South Arkansas. The week of events ...

An Amtrack passenger train in HO scale in the Cotton Belt Depot in Tyler. (File photos) The Cotton Belt Depot was opened to the public in 1905 and continued service until the last passenger train, No.