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The company significantly grew its business during the 1950s, adding new customers such as a paper mill, chemical plants, and a pet food manufacturer. A major grain elevator opened in Pascagoula in 1961, providing more business for the railroad. The Mississippi Export Railroad was featured in 1974 on the news program On the Road. [3]
This list of museums in Mississippi encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Jackson and Brandon Railroad and Bridge Company: Mississippi Central Railroad: MSC IC: 1904 1967 Illinois Central Railroad: Mississippi Central Railroad: IC: 1852 1874 New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad: Mississippi Eastern Railway: ME 1903 1942 N/A Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad: GM&O: 1854 1870 Mobile and Ohio Railroad
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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.
The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in the Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1944, [1] it restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of vehicles spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States.
MRS - Manufacturers Railway Company; Anheuser-Busch; MRSX - Mile-High Railcar Services; MS - Michigan Shore Railroad; MSAZ - National Motor Freight Traffic Association; MSC - Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (Mississippi Central, Hattiesburg to Natchez) MSCI - Mississippi Central Railroad (Oxford to Grand Jct) MSCU - Mediterranean Shipping Company
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad (“KCFS&M”) was a railway system which, at its maximum extent, operated across Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, a total of over 881 miles (1,418 kilometres). Its predecessor company started in 1865, and another railroad assumed ownership in 1928.