Cotton Belt Long Caboose #2305 - Trains Magazine

Cotton Belt #2304, the only other surviving car of this class, is preserved at Ashdown, Arkansas. See  for a photo.

The Cotton Belt long cabooses were used in local mixed train service. There is photographic evidence of 2303 on the Gatesville Local. Steve Patterson wrote about the Cotton Belt in the Missouri Bootheel in a 1962 Trains article. His article shows the 2304 in service there. There are conductor's time books in the Commerce Public Library that document the 2301 in service on the Sherman Branch is TEXAS. And if the conductor sold more than one ticket that was a lot of fares!

Ed in Kentucky