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    The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary...
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  • Railroad (LXVR) M&B Railroad (MNBR) Meridian Southern Railway (MDS) Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI) Mississippi Delta Railroad (MSDR) Mississippi...
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    Money is located on a railroad line along the Tallahatchie River, a tributary of the Yazoo River in the eastern part of the Mississippi Delta. The community...
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    moved inland from the Mississippi River. The Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad ran through the town and a portion of the railroad remains there today...
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  • Shreveport and Pacific Railway (May 1, 1901, to December 31, 1926) was chartered as the Vicksburg, Shreveport, & Texas Railroad Company with an east and west division...
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  • The New York Central Railroad (NYCRR) was formed on December 22, 1914, as a consolidation of the companies listed below. It later merged with the Pennsylvania...
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    to the Mississippi River at St. Louis (completed in 1909). Past St. Louis, Gould acquired the Wabash Railroad to Toledo. On February 1, 1901, Gould,...
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    mark SLSF), commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to November 21, 1980. At...
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  • Madison County Railroad Authority (HMCR) Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR) Meridian and Bigbee Railroad (MNBR) Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI) Sequatchie...
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  • following railroad companies operate in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Acadiana Railway (AKDN) Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad (ALM) Baton...
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    mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs", and "The Way West". In 1967, it reported 19,565 million...
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  • merged with New York Central and the railroad eventually went by the name of Penn Central Transportation Company, or "Penn Central" for short. The former...
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    Kalama by ship around Cape Horn. In Minnesota, the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad completed construction of its 155-mile (249 km) line stretching from...
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  • through subsidiaries Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Cedar River Railroad (CEDR) and Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC) Canadian Pacific Kansas City...
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    Established in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and...
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    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as...
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    Southern Railway (U.S.) (category Defunct Mississippi railroads)
    their shackles. In the area along the Ohio River and Mississippi River, construction of new railroads continued throughout Reconstruction. The Richmond and...
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    Moss Point is home to Trent Lott International Airport and the Mississippi Export Railroad. An EF2 tornado touched down in Moss Point on June 19, 2023 The...
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  • church dedicated. 1847 - Mississippi Institute for the Blind founded. 1858 - New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad in operation. 1861 January...
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  • Elevated Railroad Lee County Central Electric Railway Macomb and Western Illinois Railway Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad Mississippi Valley Interurban...
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    Holly Springs is a city in, and the county seat of, Marshall County, Mississippi, United States, near the border with Tennessee to the north. As of the...
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  • John Flint (died 1901), NCNG −1901 Kidder, Sarah, NCNG 1901–1913 Kilbourn, Byron (1801–1870), Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad 1849–1852 Kiley, John...
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    deregulation of the railroad industry. Portions of the Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Reading Railroad, Ann Arbor Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey,...
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  • Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad) collision, New York City; 15 killed plus 30+ injured. Led to the construction of the current Grand Central Terminal and electrification...
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    private investors spent on one short railroad in Western Massachusetts. A new steamboat on the Hudson, Mississippi, Missouri, or Ohio rivers cost about...
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  • Albemarle Railroad (CA) Commonwealth Railway (CWRY) CSX Transportation (CSXT) Delmarva Central Railroad (DCR) Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (DGVR)...
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    The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (reporting mark SLR), known as St-Laurent et Atlantique Quebec (reporting mark SLQ) in Canada, is a short-line railway...
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    the Mississippi River, and it did not develop during the antebellum era as those cities did from major river commerce. The construction of railroad lines...
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  • Cannonball Express pulled by Illinois Central Railroad Engine No. #382, en route from Memphis, Tennessee to Canton, Mississippi, with John "Casey" Jones as engineer...
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  • Miss Mississippi is a scholarship pageant and a preliminary of Miss America. The contest began in 1934, has been held in Vicksburg since 1958, and provides...
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