{"id":38179,"date":"2010-09-19T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=38179"},"modified":"2010-09-21T02:22:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T07:22:39","slug":"cotton-belt-depot-museum-welcomes-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=38179","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Belt Depot Museum Welcomes Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=38295\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/09\/Cotton-Belt-Depot-Museum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cotton Belt Depot Museum\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-38295\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; Business is booming at Tyler&#8217;s downtown Cotton Belt Depot Museum &#8212; home to model trains galore, along with various artifacts tracing railroad history in East Texas and beyond.   Glenn Wilkins, the director of museum activities, was a guest on KTBB &#8220;Staff Meeting.&#8221;  He says visitors come from far and wide, as shown by a map at the museum on which people place pins to show where they&#8217;re from.  According to Wilkins, since the map was hung in 2006, guests have come in from all 50 states and 31 foreign countries.    Wilkins says there&#8217;s lots of fun for the whole family at the museum, where the highly valued Bragg Collection of model trains is a centerpiece.   He adds that you&#8217;re welcome to add to the museum&#8217;s displays, either by making a gift or lending something.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the museum is free, but you&#8217;re urged to call ahead if you&#8217;re planning on bringing a large group. You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityoftyler.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cityoftyler.org<\/a> and click on the &#8220;Visitors&#8221; tab for more information. You can also go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/audio\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/audio<\/a> beginning early Monday to hear the &#8220;Staff Meeting&#8221; show online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Business is booming at Tyler&#8217;s downtown Cotton Belt Depot Museum &#8212; home to model trains galore, along with various artifacts tracing railroad history in East Texas and beyond. Glenn Wilkins, the director of museum activities, was a guest on KTBB &#8220;Staff Meeting.&#8221; He says visitors come from far and wide, as shown by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=38179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cotton Belt Depot Museum Welcomes Visitors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 19:17:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38179"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38561,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179\/revisions\/38561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}