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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 New Orleans ...
The Mississippi Valley and Western Railway (MV&W) was the name of three different shortline railroads which operated in the U.S. states of Iowa and Missouri.The first company was formed on January 25, 1871, and existed for just five days before merging with a much larger road (itself the product of the merger with three other railroads).
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley was formed by the consolidation of The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, a corporation of the same name, hereinafter called The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company (of 1882) and the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company, under articles of consolidation, dated October 24, 1892, and filed in the States named as follows ...
The Mississippi Blues Commission placed a historic marker at the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad depot site in Rosedale, Mississippi, designating it as a site on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker commemorates the original lyrics of legendary blues artist Robert Johnson 's "Traveling Riverside Blues," which traced the route of the Y&MV.
Missouri–Illinois Railroad: Mississippi River Bridge Company: GM&O: 1873 1895 Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad: Mississippi Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1871 1873 Mississippi Valley and Western Railway: Mississippi Valley Railway: 1904 Mississippi Valley and Western Railway: CB&Q: 1871 1875 St. Louis, Keokuk and North Western Railway
The railroad operated until 1926, when leased to Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad for 365 years and [4] merged with the Illinois Central Railroad on May 29, 1959. At one point there were twenty-four stops between Shreveport and Delta Point [ 5 ] but by 1967 there were only twelve depots.
Mississippi and Missouri Railroad: RI: 1853 1866 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad: Mississippi River Railroad and Toll Bridge Company: ATSF: 1886 1900 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Mississippi Valley and Western Railway: CB&Q: 1871 1875 St. Louis, Keokuk and North Western Railway: Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway: CB&Q ...
The Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway was built between 1888 and 1890 and was admitted to the Illinois Central Railroad system in 1892. It ran between Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, through Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Baton Rouge.