| Name
|
Mark
|
System[nb 1]
|
From
|
To
|
Successor
|
Notes
|
| Alabama Central Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1871
|
1881
|
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
|
|
| Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1868
|
1877
|
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
|
|
| Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
|
A&M
|
|
1902
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
IC
|
1882
|
1953
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
|
| Canton and Carthage Railroad
|
C&CA
|
|
1927
|
1960
|
N/A
|
|
| Canton and Jackson Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1841
|
1852
|
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
|
|
| Canton, Kosciusko, Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1852
|
1853
|
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
|
|
| Central Mississippi Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1877
|
1878
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
| Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1878
|
1951
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
|
| Chickawsaha and Jackson Railroad
|
|
|
1892
|
1914
|
Chicora and Northwestern Railway
|
|
| Chicora and Northwestern Railway
|
|
|
1914
|
1931
|
N/A
|
|
| Clinton and Vicksburg Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1831
|
1833
|
Commercial and Railroad Bank of Vicksburg
|
|
| Columbia, Lumberton and Gulf Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1894
|
1900
|
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
|
|
| Columbia and Silver Creek Railroad
|
CLSL
|
|
1982
|
1988
|
Gloster Southern Railroad
|
|
| Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad
|
|
C&G
|
1881
|
1881
|
Georgia Pacific Railway
|
|
| Columbus and Greenville Railroad
|
C&G
|
C&G, SOU
|
1920
|
1923
|
Columbus and Greenville Railway
|
|
| 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
|
|
| East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1881
|
1886
|
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|
|
| East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|
|
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
|
|
| Greenville, Deer Creek and Rolling Fork Railroad
|
|
C&G
|
1870
|
1880
|
Greenville, Columbus and Birmingham Railroad
|
|
| Gulf and Chicago Railroad
|
|
GM&O
|
1889
|
1903
|
Gulf and Chicago Railway
|
|
| Gulf and Chicago Railway
|
|
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
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
1922
|
N/A
|
|
| Kentwood and Eastern Railway
|
K&E
|
|
1906
|
1922
|
N/A
|
|
| Kingston and Central Mississippi Railway
|
|
GM&O
|
1901
|
1902
|
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|
|
| Kosciusko and Southeastern 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
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
|
