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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 Mississippi Valley Division is made up of six districts, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rock Island, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Division Commander is directly responsible to the Chief of Engineers. Within the authorities delegated, MVD Commander directs and ...
In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual ...
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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.
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.