Cotton Belt Depot, Commerce, Texas
Ed Cooper photo | Robert McFatridge engineer
3rd Annual
Cotton Belt Railroad Symposium
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Traditions Room, 2nd floor
Sam Rayburn Student Center
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas
2009 Media Gallery - view event photos, video clips, media coverage, materials, etc.
The NEW Sam Rayburn Student Center | TAMU-C
photo
Program
8:19 Registration Opens &
Artifacts on Display
8:45 Welcome
Dr. Larry F.
Lemanski, Provost and
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Madeline
Justice, Head, Department of
Educational Leadership
9:00
Keynote Presentation - Steve Allen Goen
author of "Cotton
Belt Color Pictorial"
View Steve's BIO
10:15 Panel Discussion
Harley Davis,
EdD, moderator
S. L. "Red"
Grimes
Murrel Hogue
Lenton R.
Moore
11:15
Presentation of Terry Kirkland and
Ed Cooper photo
collections to the
Digital Library by
Edwin Cooper.
11:20 Gayle Gordon - Digital Library Research
Commerce Public
Library
11:40 Cheryl Westhafer - Cotton Belt/Railroad
Collection at the
Commerce Public Library
Noon lunch break
1:00 Local Driving Tour
(off-campus)
-
Commerce
Public Library Cotton Belt/
Railroad Collection Open House
- Former
Cotton Belt Yard & Roundhouse
Grounds
-
Blacklands
Railroad Locomotive display
-
Railroad Partners, Inc.
Motorcar display
-
Texas
Midland Freight Depot
-
East
Texas Model Railroad Club Layout
Open House
KETR 88.9 Morning Blend Interview
Listen to the Feature Interview of Jason Davis discussing the Cotton Belt Symposium on The Morning Blend with Scott Harvey and Jerrod Knight. Aired on KETR, August 5, 2009. (11m14s)
