The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Common freight carriers
- Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR)
- Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
- Columbus and Greenville Railway (CAGY)
- Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT
- Golden Triangle Railroad (GTRA)
- Grenada Railway (GRYR)
- Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR)
- M&B Railroad (MNBR)
- Meridian Southern Railway (MDS)
- Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI)
- Mississippi Delta Railroad (MSDR)
- Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE)
- Mississippi Southern Railroad (MSR)
- Mississippian Railway (MSRW)
- Natchez Railway (NTZR)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiary Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS)
- Old Augusta Railroad (OAR)
- Port Bienville Railroad (PBVR)
- Ripley and New Albany Railroad (RNA)
- R.J. Corman Railroad/Tennessee Terminal (RJCK)
- Vicksburg Southern Railroad (VSOR)
- West Tennessee Railroad (WTNN)
Passenger carriers
- Amtrak (AMTK)
Defunct railroads
<!--Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway? The Y&MV leased it in 1926, and the Mississippi River bridge opened in 1930, but who owned the bridge? Bonhomie Southwestern Railroad?-->
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Mark
!System
!From
!To
!Successor
!Notes
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|Alabama Central Railroad
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|SOU
|1871<!--or later in Mississippi?-->
|1881
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
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|-
|Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
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|SOU
|1868
|1877
|Alabama Great Southern Railroad
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|-
|Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
|A&M
|
|1902<!--or later in Mississippi?-->
|1921<!--?-->
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad, Mississippi Export Railroad
|
|-
|Alabama and Vicksburg Railway
|A&V
|IC
|1889
|1959
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Arkansas City and Grenada Railroad
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|C&G
|1872
|1873
|Greenville, Columbus and Birmingham Railroad
|
|-
|Avera and Northeastern Railroad
|
|
|1929
|1933
|
|
|-
|Batesville Southwestern Railroad
|BSW
|IC
|1910
|1930<!--?-->
|
|
|-
|Bonhomie and Hattiesburg Southern Railroad
|
|
|1923
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Boyle and Sunflower River Railroad
|
|IC
|1896<!--?-->
|1900<!--?-->
|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
|
|-
|Brookhaven and Pearl River Railway
|
|IC
|1904
|1911<!--?-->
|Mississippi Valley Company
|
|-
|Burlington Northern Inc.
|BN
|
|1980
|1981
|Burlington Northern Railroad
|
|-
|Burlington Northern Railroad
|BN
|
|1981
|1996
|Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
|
|-
|Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad
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|IC
|1882
|1953<!--?-->
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Canton and Carthage Railroad
|C&CA
|
|1927
|1960
|N/A
|
|-
|Canton and Jackson Railroad
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|IC
|1841
|1852
|New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
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|-
|Canton, Kosciusko, Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Railroad
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|IC
|1852
|1853
|New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
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|-
|Central Mississippi Railroad
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|IC
|1877
|1878
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
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|-
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|IC
|1878
|1951
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Chickawsaha and Jackson Railroad
|
|
|1892
|1914<!--?-->
|Chicora and Northwestern Railway
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|-
|Chicora and Northwestern Railway
|
|
|1914
|1931<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Clinton and Vicksburg Railroad
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|IC
|1831
|1833
|Commercial and Railroad Bank of Vicksburg
|
|-
|Columbia, Lumberton and Gulf Railroad
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|IC
|1894
|1900
|Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
|
|-
|Columbia and Silver Creek Railroad
|CLSL
|
|1982
|1988
|Gloster Southern Railroad
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|-
|Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad
|
|C&G
|1881<!--or earlier in Mississippi?-->
|1881
|Georgia Pacific Railway
|
|-
|Columbus and Greenville Railroad
|C&G
|C&G, SOU
|1920
|1923
|Columbus and Greenville Railway<!--but what about east of Columbus?-->
|
|-
|Columbus and Greenville Railway
|C&G
|C&G
|1923
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Commercial and Railroad Bank of Vicksburg
|
|IC
|1833
|1850
|Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad
|
|-
|Corinth and Counce Railroad
|CCR
|
|1958<!--?-->
|1991
|TennRail Corporation
|
|-
|Cybur, Gulf and Northwestern Railroad
|
|
|1914
|1918<!--?-->
|
|
|-
|Pearl River Valley Railroad
|PRV
|
|1917
|2007
|N/A
|
|-
|DeKalb and Western Railroad
|DK&W, DKW
|
|1916
|1949<!--?-->
|
|
|-
|Delta Southern Railway
|
|C&G
|1904
|1921
|Itta Bena and Belzoni Railroad<!--?? abandonment was authorized in 1921, but there was a local plan to acquire the Belzoni Branch for continued operation, and a 1926 map shows the C&G operating it-->
|
|-
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
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|SOU
|1881
|1886
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
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|-
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
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|SOU
|1886
|1894
|Southern Railway
|
|-
|Ellisville and Laurel Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1902
|1902<!--?-->
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|
|-
|Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf Railroad
|
|
|1920
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Fernwood and Gulf Railroad
|
|
|1906
|1920
|Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Gainesville and Mississippi Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1852
|1854
|Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad
|
|-
|Georgia Pacific Railway
|
|C&G, SOU
|1881
|1894
|Southern Railway in Mississippi
|
|-
|Grand Gulf and Port Gibson Railroad
|
|IC
|1852
|1883<!--?-->
|New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Memphis Railroad
|
|-
|Greenville, Columbus and Birmingham Railroad
|
|C&G
|1873
|1881
|Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad
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|-
|Greenville, Deer Creek and Rolling Fork Railroad
|
|C&G
|1870
|1880
|Greenville, Columbus and Birmingham Railroad
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|-
|Gulf and Chicago Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1889
|1903
|Gulf and Chicago Railway
|
|-
|Gulf and Chicago Railway
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|GM&O
|1903
|1909
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
|
|-
|Gulf and Mississippi Railroad
|GMSR
|
|1985
|1988
|SouthRail Corporation
|
|-
|Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|GM&N
|GM&O
|1915
|1940
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
|-
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|GM&O
|GM&O
|1938
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
|G&SI
|IC
|1850
|1945
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Helm and Northwestern Railroad
|
|IC
|1904
|1931
|N/A
|
|-
|Hiwannee and Tombigbee Railroad
|
|
|1906
|1912<!--??-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Illinois Central Railroad
|IC
|IC
|1883<!--leased the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad-->
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|ICG
|
|1972
|1988
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Itta Bena and Belzoni Railroad
|
|
|1923<!--?-->
|1928
|N/A
|
|-
|Jackson and Brandon Railroad and Bridge Company
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|IC
|1841
|1852
|Southern Railroad
|
|-
|Jackson and Brandon Railroad and Bridge Company
|
|IC
|1836
|1838
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad
|
|-
|Jackson and Eastern Railway
|
|GM&O
|1916
|1929
|Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|
|-
|Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1886
|1928
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|
|-
|Kentwood and Eastern Railroad
|
|
|<!--no idea - about 1903-->
|1922<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Kentwood and Eastern Railway
|K&E
|
|1906<!--or later in Mississippi?-->
|1922<!--ceased operations December 31, 1922 - or earlier in Mississippi?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Kingston and Central Mississippi Railway
|
|GM&O
|1901
|1902
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|
|-
|Kosciusko and Southeastern<!--or South Eastern?--> Railroad
|
|
|1916
|1931<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Leland Southwestern Railroad
|
|IC
|1906
|1916<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Liberty–White Railroad
|
|
|1902
|1921
|N/A
|
|-
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|L&N
|L&N
|1880<!--leased the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad-->
|1983
|Seaboard System Railroad
|
|-
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
|
|IC
|1884
|1892
|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
|
|-
|Memphis, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1885
|1887
|Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
|
|-
|Memphis and Charleston Railroad
|
|SOU
|1850
|1898
|Memphis and Charleston Railway
|
|-
|Memphis and Charleston Railway
|
|SOU
|1898
|2002
|Norfolk Southern Railway
|
|-
|Memphis, Holly Springs and Mobile Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1859
|1867
|Memphis, Holly Springs, Okolona and Selma Railroad
|
|-
|Memphis, Holly Springs, Okolona and Selma Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1867
|1870
|Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
|
|-
|Memphis, Holly Springs and Selma Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1881
|1881
|Memphis, Selma and Brunswick Railroad
|
|-
|Memphis and New Orleans Railroad and Levee Company
|
|IC
|1882
|1887
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
|
|-
|Memphis, Selma and Brunswick Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1881
|1885
|Memphis, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
|
|-
|Memphis and Vicksburg Railroad
|
|IC
|1870
|1884
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
|
|-
|Meridian and Bigbee Railroad
|MBRR, MB
|
|1952
|1997
|M&B Railroad
|
|-
|Meridian and Bigbee River Railway
|
|
|1917
|1952
|Meridian and Bigbee Railroad
|
|-
|Meridian, Brookhaven and Natchez Railroad
|
|IC
|1891
|1946
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Meridian, Brookhaven and Natchez Railroad
|
|IC
|1882
|1888
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|-
|Meridian and Deep Water Railway
|
|
|1911
|<!--no idea-->
|Meridian and Bigbee River Railway
|
|-
|Meridian and Memphis Railway
|M&M
|GM&O
|1911
|1929
|Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|
|-
|Meridian Terminal Company
|
|GM&O/ IC/ SOU
|1904
|1958<!--?-->
|New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad
|
|-
|MidSouth Rail Corporation
|MSRC
|
|1986
|1993
|Kansas City Southern Railway
|
|-
|Minter City Southern and Western Railroad
|
|IC
|1904
|1932<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad
|
|
|1922
|1950
|N/A
|
|-
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad
|
|IC
|1905
|1913
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|-
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad
|
|IC
|1836
|1841
|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
|
|-
|Mississippi and Schoona Valley Railroad
|
|
|1925
|1926
|Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad
|
|-
|Mississippi Southern Railroad
|
|
|1922
|1932<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Mississippi and Tennessee RailNet
|MT
|
|1998
|2003
|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, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Memphis Railroad
|
|-
|Mississippi and Western Railroad
|
|
|1917
|1932
|N/A
|
|-
|Missouri Pacific Railroad
|MP
|MP
|1965
|1982<!--??-->
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|Mobile, Hattiesburg and Jackson Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1888
|1890
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|
|-
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1890
|1909
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
|
|-
|Mobile and Northwestern Railroad
|
|IC
|1870
|1889<!--?-->
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway, Mississippi Valley Company
|
|-
|Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1848
|1940
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
|-
|Moss Point and Pascagoula Railroad
|
|
|1894
|1903
|Pascagoula Street Railway and Power Company
|
|-
|Nashville and Mississippi Delta Railroad
|
|SOU
|1890
|1902
|Southern Railway
|
|-
|Natchez, Columbia and Mobile Railroad
|
|
|1892
|1933<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Natchez and Eastern Railway
|
|IC
|1906
|1909
|Mississippi Central Railroad
|
|-
|Natchez and Jackson Railroad
|
|IC
|1870
|1872
|Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad
|
|-
|Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad
|
|IC
|1872
|1890
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
|
|-
|Natchez and Southern Railway
|
|MP
|1902
|1965
|Missouri Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Natchez Trace Railroad
|NTR
|
|1982
|1993
|Mississippi Central Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Memphis Railroad
|
|IC
|1882
|1884
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
|
|-
|New Orleans Great Northern Railroad
|NOGN
|GM&O
|1905
|1933
|New Orleans Great Northern Railway
|
|-
|New Orleans Great Northern Railway
|
|GM&O
|1933
|1983
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
|NOJ&GN
|IC
|1852
|1874
|New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans, Jackson and Northern Railroad
|
|IC
|1877
|1878
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad
|
|L&N
|1867
|1871
|New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1909
|1915
|Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad
|
|L&N
|1871
|1881
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad
|N&NE
|SOU
|1871
|1969
|Alabama Great Southern Railroad
|
|-
|New Orleans and Northwestern Railway
|
|MP
|1884
|1902
|Natchez and Southern Railway
|
|-
|New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad
|
|IC
|1874
|1877
|Central Mississippi Railroad, New Orleans, Jackson and Northern Railroad
|
|-
|North East and South West Alabama Railroad
|
|SOU
|1854
|1868
|Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
|
|-
|Oak Grove and Georgetown Railroad
|
|
|1904
|1927
|N/A
|
|-
|Okolona, Houston & Calhoun City Railway
|O.H.&C.C.
|
|1933
|1939
|N/A
|
|-
|Pascagoula – Moss Point Northern Railroad
|
|
|1912
|1915
|Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
|
|-
|Pascagoula Northern Railroad
|
|
|1909
|1912<!--?-->
|Pascagoula – Moss Point Northern Railroad
|
|-
|Pearl and Leaf Rivers Railroad
|
|IC
|1897
|1904
|Mississippi Central Railroad
|
|-
|Richmond and Danville Railroad
|
|C&G, SOU
|1889<!--leased the Georgia Pacific Railway-->
|1894
|Southern Railway
|
|-
|Ripley Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1871
|1872
|Ship Island, Ripley and Kentucky Railroad
|
|-
|Rosedale and Mississippi Central Railroad
|
|IC
|1890
|1898<!--?-->
|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
|
|-
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|SLSF
|SLSF
|1916
|1980
|Burlington Northern Inc.
|
|-
|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1903<!--leased the KCM&B-->
|1916
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|
|-
|Sanoody Valley Railroad
|
|
|1908
|1915
|DeKalb and Western Railroad
|
|-
|Sardis and Delta Railroad
|
|
|1900
|1929<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Seaboard System Railroad
|SBD
|
|1983
|1986
|CSX Transportation
|
|-
|Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1870
|1881<!--?-->
|Memphis, Holly Springs and Selma Railroad
|
|-
|Ship Island, Ripley and Kentucky Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1872
|1889
|Gulf and Chicago Railroad
|
|-
|Shubuta and Southwestern Railroad
|
|
|1905
|1922
|N/A
|
|-
|Southern Railroad
|
|IC
|1846
|1867
|Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad
|
|-
|Southern Railway
|SOU
|SOU
|1894
|1990
|Norfolk Southern Railway
|
|-
|Southern Railway in Mississippi
|
|C&G, SOU
|1894
|1920
|Columbus and Greenville Railroad
|
|-
|SouthRail Corporation
|SR
|
|1988
|1993
|Kansas City Southern Railway
|
|-
|Sunflower and Eastern Railway
|
|IC
|1901
|1930<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Tallahatta Railroad
|
|
|1902
|1919
|N/A
|
|-
|TennRail Corporation
|
|
|1991
|1993
|Kansas City Southern Railway
|
|-
|Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad
|
|IC
|1850
|1857
|Southern Railroad
|
|-
|Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad
|
|IC
|1867
|1889
|Alabama and Vicksburg Railway
|
|-
|Vicksburg, Pensacola and Ship Island Railroad
|
|IC
|1871
|1873
|Mississippi Valley and Ship Island Railroad
|
|-
|West and East Railroad
|
|IC
|1873
|1886
|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
|
|-
|West Feliciana Railroad
|
|IC
|1831<!--or later in Mississippi?-->
|1888
|Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
|
|-
|Yazoo Delta Railway
|
|IC
|1895
|1900
|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
|
|-
|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
|
|IC
|1882
|1946
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|}
;Private freight carriers
- Albertson Great Eastern Railroad
- Champion Lumber Company
- Epps and Northwestern Railroad
- Laurel and Northwestern Railroad
- Laurel and Tallahoma Western Railway
;Electric
- Biloxi Electric Railway and Power Company
- Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction Company
- Hattiesburg Traction Company
- Jackson Railway and Light Company
- Jackson Light and Traction Company
- Meridian Light and Railway Company
- Meridian Street Railway and Power Company
- Pascagoula Street Railway and Power Company
- Southern Railway and Light Company
- Southern Light and Traction Company
- Vicksburg Railway and Light Company
- Vicksburg Light and Traction Company
- Vicksburg Traction Company
See also
- Natchez and Hamburg Railroad
Notes
References
General references
- Mississippi DOT railroad map (PDF)
- Mississippi Rails