Pine Bluff, AR - Arkansas Railroad Museum. Engine 819 was built by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (Cotton Belt Route) at it's Pine Bluff, Arkansas shops. The engine was donated to the city in 1955 and "Old 819" reposed in Oakland Park until 1983 when Cotton Belt brought it out of the park for restoration by the Cotton Belt Historical Society, Inc. The engine's home is now in the Cotton Belt Historical Museum which is located at the home of its birth, at the Old Cotton Belt Shops. The museum is open to the public Monday through Saturday. The museum also now houses Engine 336 and a full scale inside-the-building railroad depot and displays of railroad memorabilia, particularly historical items from railroads that have operated in Arkansas and East Texas.
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