Description
Cotton Belt® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad.
This 56’ general service tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. Used by St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) in fuel service, this 20,488-gallon capacity tank car was built by GATX in their Sharon, Pennsylvania plant in 1966. Cotton Belt was founded in 1891 and became a Southern Pacific subsidiary in 1932, before eventually fully merging in 1992. It is now a heritage component of Union Pacific.
