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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).
Springfield and Western Missouri Railroad: Tarkio Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1880 1900 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Tebo and Neosho Railroad: MKT: 1860 1872 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Terminal Railroad of St. Louis: 1880 1889 Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad: PRR ...
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.
1 The Mississippi Valley Company. Toggle The Mississippi Valley Company subsection. 1.1 Location and General Description of Property. 1.2 Introductory.
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 railroad hauled soybeans, cotton seed byproducts, lint, carbon black, and rubber, with traffic amounting to nearly 4,000 annual carloads in 1995. [2] Annual carloads on the Mississippi Delta railroad declined from 3,273 in 1997, 1,709 in 1998, 591 in 1999, to only 296 by the year 2000.