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Cotton Belt

4 photographs

Two locomotives, one Southern Pacific and one Louisville and Nashville, pull a line of freight cars through a yard with mountains in the distance.

Two EMD GP40 diesel locomotives, one from Southern Pacific and one from Louisville and Nashville, lead a freight train through a yard with snow-capped mountains in the background. c. 1966 to 1970 · Colton, CA

Side view of a black Cotton Belt diesel locomotive with the number 6876, parked on tracks next to a yellow Union Pacific office car in a gravel yard under a clear sky.

A black Cotton Belt EMD GP9 locomotive, number 6876, is parked in a yard next to a Union Pacific office car. December 1999 · Lake/Mannheim, Melrose Park, IL

Two diesel locomotives, one yellow and green with the number 5529 and the name 'North Western', and one black with the number 6892 and the name 'Cotton', are parked side by side on railroad tracks in a gravel yard under a cloudy sky.

A Chicago and North Western GP9 locomotive, number 5529, in its yellow and green livery, is parked in a yard next to a black Cotton Belt GP9, number 6892, under an overcast sky. April 2000 · Lake and Mannheim, Melrose Park, IL

Two diesel locomotives, one blue and red with the number 9387 and the words 'COTTON BELT' on its side, and the other yellow with the number 601 and partial 'UNION PACIFIC' lettering, are parked on parallel tracks in a gravel yard with some greenery in the foreground.

A Cotton Belt SD40-2 locomotive and a Union Pacific GP9 locomotive are positioned side-by-side in a rail yard under an overcast sky. August 2001 · Lake and Mannheim, Melrose Park, IL