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New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Memphis Railroad: Mississippi and Western Railroad: 1917 1932 N/A Missouri Pacific Railroad: MP MP 1965 1982 Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: Mobile, Hattiesburg and Jackson Railroad: GM&O: 1888 1890 Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad: Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad: GM&O: 1890 1909
Pages in category "Mississippi railroads" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad;
The largest municipality by land area is Jackson, which spans 111.05 sq mi (287.6 km 2), while Sidon is the smallest, at 0.12 sq mi (0.31 km 2). [1] The city of Natchez is the oldest municipality in Mississippi, incorporated on March 10, 1803, and the city of Gluckstadt is the state's newest municipality, incorporated in June 2021. [3] [4]
The Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company (MJ&KC) was established in 1890 in Mobile, Alabama. By 1898 the line reached the Pascagoula River at Merrill, Mississippi . The railroad had 50 miles of trackage in 1900 and reached Hattiesburg, Mississippi , via the Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern Railroad in 1902.
Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. [1] Historians credit the railroad system for the country's vast development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as having helped facilitate a ...
Narrow gauge railroads in Mississippi (1 P) P. Passenger rail transportation in Mississippi (1 C, 16 P) R. Mississippi railroads (2 C, 38 P)
At the crossroad of I-20 and and I-59 and just 92 miles from the Jackson metro area, Meridian offers a rare combination of entertainment, shopping and dining that few in Mississippi can rival.
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.