21. The namesake of the community, John A . Renner, developed townsites along the Cotton Belt line. 22. Kansas City Southern and Cotton Belt passenger trains both made back-up moves to access the station. 23. By the middle of the 19th century, the Cotton Belt extended from Virginia to eastern Texas. 24. Work was forthcoming outside the Lancashire cotton belt . 25. The Depot Museum is located in a former Cotton Belt railroad depot that was built in 1901. 26. -Install historical markers at Grapevine's Cotton Belt Depot and the Fort Worth Stockyards telling the locomotive's history. 27. He joined the Cotton Belt Line in Houston and later the Chicago Great Western Line in Dallas. 28. Members of the Cotton Belt Railroad Historical Society invested over 35, 000 man-hours into this restoration project. 29. The cotton belt which receives less rainfall grows Cotton, however farmers with irrigation still prefer growing Rice. 30. As machinery took over the cotton belt , thousands of field hands migrated north and left their shacks behind.