Mississippi Railroad Information         

  COLUMBUS & GREENVILLE RAILWAY

LUXAPALILA VALLEY RAILROAD

• Assigned track numbers to side tracks

• Columbus & Greenville track profile from Columbus to West Point

• Locomotive rosters

• Luxapalila Valley Railroad track profile

• Passenger car, doodlebugs and caboose rosters

• Track profile - Alabama line to Greenville

GULF, MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Cabooses

• I.C.C. valuation index

• List of rivers and highway underpasses

• List of steel bridges and turntables

   ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Aberdeen District track charts

• Cabooses

• CN Beaumont Subdivision mile post renumbering charts

• Johnathan "Casey" Jones

• Passenger cars

• Passenger engines (diesel)

• Photographs taken during the moving of IC 2542 (mountain type steam engine)

• Preserved freight and maintenance of way cars

• Will the real highest point on the Illinois Central between New Orleans and Memphis please stand up

• Work equipment - 1955 & 1962 rosters. Includes cranes and floating equipment. (large file, may load slow)

• Work equipment currently in use with some older cars included

KOSCIUSKO & SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY INFORMATION

• Locomotive roster

• Track profiles

MERIDIAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY INFORMATION

• Locomotive roster

OTHER RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Automatic Car Identification label format (1967-1978)

• DeKalb & Western Railroad

• Equipment standards for interchange service (Plates A through K)

• Information on railroad lines in Mississippi with additional information on surrounding states

• Kosciusko & Southeastern Railroad

• Laws governing crimes involving railroads in Mississippi.

• Mississippi railroad radio channels

• Mississippi railroad stations and structures - past and present

• Preserved steam engines either used by the Illinois Central Railroad or used in Mississippi

• Railroad Equipment preserved in Mississippi

• Railroad Terminology, Slang, and Definitions

• Specifications for railroad rail

• State railroad maps

• Old railroad employee records

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Model Railroad Clubs:

• Jackson - Jackson Society of Model Engineers

• Jackson - Jackson Station - Museum Exhibit

• Meridian - Meridian Model Railroad club (located in Meridian NRHS museum)

National Railway Historical Society chapters:

• Meridian - Queen & Crescent Chapter

• Hattiesburg - Mississippi Great Southern Chapter

• Vicksburg - Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Chapter

Reference sites:

• Mississippi Rails

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