A Last Look at the Cotton Belt

This video shows the trains of the Cotton Belt, long part of the SP, on both sides of their hub at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in Sept. 1996.  This video shows 24 hours of SP trains from East St. Louis and Memphis around the junction with the Memphis line at Brinkley, and 24 hrs. of action south of Pine Bluff where the Houston line diverges at Lewisville, when operations were still pure SP.  92 minutes.