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The Cotton Belt Depot Museum is dedicated to showcasing the history of the Saint Louis Southwestern Railroad. Best known as the Cotton Belt, the narrow gauge railroad line originated in Tyler as the Tyler Tap, and it was built to transport cotton and produce to the town of Big Sandy in Texas.
Housed in the Cotton Belt Depot, which acted as a station for railroad passengers for the first half of the 1900s, the museum presents a journey back in time to the age of the railroad and its rich heritage. Operated by volunteers of the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society, the museum features an excellent hands-on model train collection donated by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bragg, among other exhibits.
210 East Oakwood Street, Tyler, TX, 903-595-7232
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