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Blue Streak at Texarkana

By Angela Cotey | January 4, 2022

| Last updated on January 6, 2022

Cotton Belt Railroad Blue Streak Merchandise freight train

An A-B-A set of FT diesels leads the Cotton Belt’s famous Blue Streak Merchandise freight through Texarkana, Tex., in 1949.

R. S. Plummer photo

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