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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]
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
The railroad is connected to the national rail network by its connection to the CPKC Railway at Meridian. The MDS utilizes five General Electric built B23-7 locomotives to move over 7,000 carloads of freight annually. Originally, this line was part of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad mainline connecting Mobile, Alabama with St. Louis, Missouri. The ...
Little Rock Port Authority Railroad (LRPA) Live Oak Railroad (LOR) Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad (LAL) Longview Switching Company (LVSW) Louisiana and Delta Railroad (LDRR) Louisiana and North West Railroad (LNW) Louisiana Southern Railroad (LAS) Louisville and Indiana Railroad (LIRC) Lubbock and Western Railway (LBWR) Lucas Oil Rail ...
The 21.66 mile railroad line was purchased from the Illinois Central Railroad by the Mississippi Department of Transportation and leased to the Kosciusko & Southwestern Railway. The company once specialized in transporting wood products from local woodyards, but after 2005 existed entirely by storing surplus freight cars for large leasing ...
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 Ripley & New Albany Railroad (reporting mark RNA) is a 27-mile long (43 km) shortline railroad that runs from New Albany to Falkner, Mississippi, and previously extended from Houston, Mississippi, to Middleton, Tennessee, along former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad trackage. RNA interchanges with the BNSF Railway in New Albany, Mississippi ...
The Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway (reporting mark AGR) is a Class II railroad [1] owned by Genesee & Wyoming. It operates 292 miles (470 km) of track [2] from the Pensacola, Florida export terminals, west of downtown, north to Columbus, Mississippi, with trackage rights along BNSF Railway to Amory, Mississippi.