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Mississippi and Alabama Railroad: Jackson and Eastern Railway: GM&O: 1916 1929 Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad: Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad: SLSF: 1886 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kentwood and Eastern Railroad: 1922 N/A Kentwood and Eastern Railway: K&E 1906 1922 N/A Kingston and Central Mississippi Railway: GM ...
Union Station. Union Station is an intermodal transit station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is operated by the Jackson Transit System and serves Amtrak 's City of New Orleans and later proposed Crescent Texas section rail line, Greyhound Lines intercity buses, and is Jackson's main city bus station. [2]
Bond of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, issued 15. December 1873. In 1852, the Mississippi Central Railroad was chartered by the Mississippi Legislature to build a railroad from Canton, Mississippi, to Grand Junction, Tennessee, financed by wealthy cotton planters in La Grange, TN, and Oxford, MS, passing through the towns of Grenada, Water Valley, Oxford and Holly Springs.
1882–1946. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. 1915 map of the railroad. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad (Y&MV) was incorporated in 1882 and was part of the Illinois Central Railroad system (IC). Construction began in Jackson, Mississippi, and continued to Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Share of the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road Company, issued 18 July 1892. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad, completed in 1857, was the first railroad in the United States to link the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River. [2] Chartered in 1846, [3] the 311 miles (501 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [4] gauge railroad ran from Memphis, Tennessee to ...
The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign during the American Civil War.After entering the state of Mississippi in late April 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army moved his force inland to strike at the strategic Mississippi River town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Old Vicksburg Bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [2] It was built by the Vicksburg Bridge & Terminal Co. during 1928-1930 and has three cantilevered truss spans and three Parker truss spans. [3] Until 1998, the bridge was open to motor vehicles and carried U.S. Route 80 (US 80) across the Mississippi River.
The Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) is a 42-mile shortline railroad founded in 1922 which operates in the state of Mississippi from Pascagoula to Evanston. The company owns a North-South line between its two termini, along which it interchanges with Canadian National and CSX .