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Alabama Great Southern Railroad: New Orleans and Northwestern Railway: MP: 1884 1902 Natchez and Southern Railway: New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad: IC: 1874 1877 Central Mississippi Railroad, New Orleans, Jackson and Northern Railroad: North East and South West Alabama Railroad: SOU: 1854 1868 Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
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.
In the 1920s, folklorists, notably Dorothy Scarborough (1925) and Guy Johnson and Howard W. Odum (1926), also collected transcribed versions. Scarborough's short text, published in her book, On The Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (1925), is the first version published under the title "Nine-Pound Hammer", before the earliest commercial recording of that name. [7]
Founded in 2001, Meridian Southern Railway (reporting mark MDS), in east Mississippi, USA, is a 55 miles (89 km) short line freight railroad linking Meridian, and Waynesboro, Mississippi and intermediate stations. The railroad is connected to the national rail network by its connection to the CPKC Railway at Meridian.
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The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad sold the remaining portions near Vicksburg, along with the present Meridian Speedway, to the MidSouth Rail Corporation in 1986, and in 1993 the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) gained control of MidSouth, subsequently absorbing it. [1] The newly created Vicksburg Southern leased the lines from KCS in January ...
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