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Mississippi Tennessee Railroad: Mississippi Tennessee Railroad MTNR 2003 2011 Ripley and New Albany Railroad: Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad: IC: 1852 1889 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Mississippi Valley Company: IC: 1872 1945 Illinois Central Railroad: Mississippi Valley and Ship Island Railroad: IC: 1873 1883
For a more complete list, see List of Mississippi railroads. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
In 1993, Pioneer Railcorp purchased the line and resurrected the name Mississippi Central Railroad. [11] The primary customer was a particle board plant in Oxford. In the mid-2000s, all track south of University-Oxford Airport was abandoned and the airport runway expanded over the right of way. MSCI's tracks now end at the airport's perimeter ...
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge . Reporting marks are listed in parentheses.
The Mississippian Railway was established in 1923 primarily to haul lumber products from Fulton south to the interchange with the Frisco Railway in Amory.. In 1944 a bentonite plant was built in Smithville to take advantage of a large deposit discovered there which led to a surge in business for the line and its nickname The Bentonite Road.
Nearly all components of the Gulf & Mississippi were previously owned by the Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio before the 1972 acquisition of that railroad by the Illinois Central. The GM&O previously maintained two parallel routes through eastern Mississippi, and the easternmost route from Corinth, Mississippi, to Mobile, Alabama, 331 miles (533 km), formed the backbone of the G&M system.
The city of Batesville, Mississippi was founded following the construction of the railway, and drew its residents from surrounding communities. [7] During the Civil War, the railroad's trestle over the Coldwater River was destroyed by Federal troops. [8] Following the war, the railroad was "a complete wreck, and literally without rolling stock ...
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