Article: Dallas, DART still don't agree about Cotton Belt: City wants rails put in channel; transit officials say it's not reasonable.

Article: Dallas, DART rail talks advance: Cotton Belt line ...
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX);  October 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... differences over the Cotton Belt rail line Friday ... officials said. City Council and Dallas Area ... on the existing Cotton Belt freight rail line ... said Dallas City Council member Linda Koop ... to run on the Cotton Belt, which cuts through ...

Article: Cotton Belt Locomotives
Arkansas Historical Quarterly;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Cotton Belt Locomotives. By Joseph A. Strapac ... and by then was already called the "Cotton Belt Route." The builder was well-known ... time, Jay Gould had gathered in the Cotton Belt as one of his own! In 1886, the line ...

Article: Dallas, DART inch toward rail deal: Negotiations on Cotton ...
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX);  October 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... type of trains that would run along a Cotton Belt rail line, but the two sides remain ... DART officials in the last week. The Cotton Belt rail line runs through Plano, Richardson ... The proposal to run trains on the Cotton Belt is part of DART's multibillion-dollar ...

Encyclopedia entry: Cotton Belt
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      498 words ...Cotton Belt former agricultural region of the SE ... invention of the cotton gin in 1793, the Cotton Belt was confined to the coastal areas of ... are the leading producers of the old cotton belt; California ranks after Texas nationally ...

Article: COTTON BELT SYMPOSIUM SET APRIL 16 AT TEXAS A&M ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 6, 2007 ;     460 words ... ... issued the following news release: The Cotton Belt Symposium focusing on the St. Louis ... written a book on the history of the Cotton Belt in Commerce told from the perspective ... Bill Bailey, vice president of the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society, will discuss ...

Article: Global Cotton Buyers End Tour of U.S. Cotton Belt ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 5, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... four cotton buyers from 19 countries toured Calcot Ltd. Wednesday, the last day of an annual 12-day tour of the American Cotton Belt. New cotton buyers from Croatia and Vietnam joined big-time buyers from Japan and Korea feeling wool-like, pricey Pima ...

Article: Death by cotton: Richard Swift travels to the troubled ...
New Internationalist;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... economic odds that are stacked against the survival of a small-farm family in the 11 counties that make up the Vidarbha cotton belt, he had never given any sign that he was contemplating such drastic action. As they talked to me, his family searched for ...