RAILROAD HISTORIES : Google Earth Railroad Maps : Mississippi Town Histories . All content on Mississippi Rails website is copyrighted by us or the individual or institution noted on the image or accompanying text.

I am constantly adding information and mapping additional railroads. They are very much a work in progress. The hope is that these maps can be expanded to cover the entire United States and others will join in the effort. Feel free to share them with others. Tony Howe. Individual Railroad Maps (alphabetical)

These maps will also be used to create Google Earth overlays to illustrate the changes in each town over the years and provide a frame of reference in the current landscape to accurately locate where things used to be.

We hope to include a brief history of each railroad serving this state, and include photos and maps where they are available. We will also include logging railroads, as well. We will primarily cover railroads between the 1850's up to the 1960's.

August 9, 2017- added Google Earth maps for several states, as well as updates to several individual railroad maps on THIS PAGE. June 29, 2016- added pages for ICG, MidSouth Rail, and Gulf & Mississippi RR. April 22, 2015- added 1939 profiles to towns along Y&MV main line thanks to Robert Tomb.

Click Map for Larger Version: HISTORY: The Mississippi Central Railroad was chartered in the spring of 1852. Ground was broken at Holly Springs on November 16, 1853. onsolidated in 1859 with the Mississippi Central and Tennessee (built from Jackson, TN to Grand Junction, TN) under the Mississippi Central name.

Click Map for Larger Version Google Earth Map HERE: History by David Price and Tony Howe: As the Pearl & Leaf Rivers Railroad was expanded, the new goal to reach Natchez was chosen and the railroad was renamed the Mississippi Central on February 13, 1904.

Click Map for Larger Version: Gulf & Mississippi Railroad was created in 1985 and purchased several rail lines from Illinois Central Gulf Railroad and began service on July 10, 1985. Most of these lines were former Gulf Mobile & Ohio RR lines in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Click Map for Larger Version: HISTORY: The Mississippi Delta Railroad was formed in 1985 to acquire the rail line from Swan Lake to Clarksdale to Jonestown, MS from Illinois Central Gulf RR. It was owned by Gulf & Ohio Railways.

Click Map for Larger Version: HISTORY: The Mississippi Central Railroad (the third railroad to have this name) was formed in 1993 by Pioneer Railcorp to acquire the railroad line from Grand Junction, TN to Oxford, MS that was previously operated by Kyle Railroad as …