STATIONS AND STRUCTURES ON CURRENT
AND FORMER RAILROAD LINES IN MISSISSIPPI.

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MAXIE to COLUMBIA
Originally Columbia, Lumberton & Gulf Railroad (1894 - 1900)
Formerly Gulf & Ship Island Railroad (1900 - 1914)
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
43.98 Maxie    
47.5 Wentworth   3 section houses - ?
tool house - ?
48 Newco    
48.28 Carnes Formerly known as Helena Depot - ?
49.48 Chapin Also known as Tracy  
50.47 Dorsey    
51.84 Alexander    
  Pistol Ridge    
52.89 Elder Also known as Elder Ridge  
54.23 Young   Depot - ?
3 section houses - ?
56.73 Villa Ridge    
58.48 Hines Jct Connection with Mississippi Southern RR  
59.3   wye  
60.27 Lumberton Jct with Southern (N.O. & N.E.) Depot - no longer exists
Interlocking tower - no longer exists
64.32 Wells    
65.75 Hines    
  Camp may be out of sequence  
67.75 Fanning   Warehouse - ?
depot - ?
69.8     section house - ?
70.95 Baxterville Jct Coney Lumber spur Depot - ?
Lunch stand - ?
Warehouse - ?
72.60 Ewing   Lumber shed - ?
73 Lawless Spur    
74.64 Rouse    
77.89 Sims    
78.03 Price    
79.78 Pinebur   Depot - ?
81.09 Nason   depot - ?
82.99 Hub wye Depot - ?
Seed house - ?
3 section houses - ?
Tool house - ?
83.71 Kenney    
86.4 Moss    
86.92 Little River    
87.7 Lampton    
90 Langfords    
COLUMBIA
Originally Gulf & Ship Island Railroad (1906 - 1925)
Formerly Illinois Central Railroad (1925 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Formerly Columbia & Silver Creek Railroad
Formerly Columbia Northern Railroad
Currently Marion County Rail Authority
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
92.36 Columbia wye platform - no longer exists
depot - still exists - 2017
Freight house - no longer exists
COLUMBIA to SILVER CREEK
Originally Gulf & Ship Island Railroad (1906 - 1925)
Formerly Illinois Central Railroad (1925 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Formerly Columbia & Silver Creek Railroad
Formerly Columbia Northern Railroad
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
94.1 Walton Spur    
94.8 Buckhorn    
96.31 Fortinberry    
97.6 Expose   depot - ?
98.1   Expose gravel pit (G&SI property)  
98.6 Wilcox    
100.32 Goss   Depot - ?
101 Stoner May be out of sequence  
101.33 Fahey    
103.30 Hathorn   Depot - ?
3 section houses - ?
Stock pen - ?
105.8 Pittman    
106.11 Bourn    
107.59 Oakvale   motor car shed - standing 1999
Depot - ?
2 seed houses - ?
Pump house - ?
3 section houses - ?
Water closet - ?
tool house - ?
110.52 Woolam    
113.08 Arm   Depot - ?
2 seed houses - ?
2 section houses - ?
tool house - ?
  Garrett    
116.15 Campbell   Depot - ?
  Blountville may be out of sequence  
119 Steadman    
120.97 Silver Creek   pagoda - no longer exists
depot - moved, still standing 2004
6 section houses - ?
tool house - ?
Warehouse - ?
Cotton platform - ?
SILVER CREEK to MENDENHALL
Originally Gulf & Ship Island Railroad (1906 - 1925)
Formerly Illinois Central Railroad (1925 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
122.53 Hendrick    
125.86 Grange   pagoda - no longer exists
Depot - no longer exists
Garden - no longer exists
127.50 Waller    
129.33 New Hebron   Depot - ?
Stock pen - ?
4 seed houses - ?
well - ?
coal bin - ?
water tank - ?
131.30 Anthony    
133.97 Shivers   Depot - ?
Seed house - ?
134.60 Mangrum   3 section houses - ?
tool house - ?
135 Addie    
138.94 Bush   Depot - ?
140.80 Pinola   Depot - still exists 2017 - moved to side of Hwy 28 about 2 miles west of town
3 section houses - ?
Tool house - ?
2 seed houses - ?
Stock pen - ?
Cotton platform - ?
142.46 Oyer    
145.41 Merit also spelled Merritt. Previously Burnham. Depot - ?
3 section houses - ?
Tool house - ?
148.52 Mendenhall   depot rumored to have been moved to land near where Pinola building currently located.

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TWIN to WANILLA
Originally New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (1906 - 1933)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad (1933 - 1940)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Currently Canadian National Railway
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
86   Louisiana/Mississippi state line  
86.98 Twin    
89.4 Sandyhook   frame depot - ?
91.65 Sweetwater    
95 Saxon    
96 Keen    
96.26 Pickwick    
97.8 Cheraw    
100.04 Jamestown   hot box detector - ?
103.5 Foxworth    
103.6 West Columbia
Columbia Jct		    
109.6 Morgantown    
110.69 Newsom    
114.5 Whitebluff    
119 Tilton    
126.00 Robinwood Also known as Flowell  
131.2 Monticello   frame depot - still exists 2017
  Monticello Jct    
135.0 Rosella    
137.5 Wanilla   depot - no longer exists
water tank - no longer exists
WANILLA to JACKSON
Originally New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (1906 - 1933)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad (1933 - 1940)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
141 Copp    
143 Oma    
145 Cowanville    
148 Rockport    
153 Georgetown   ex-Mississippi Central, ex-Green Brothers Gravel steam engine on display
160 Hopewell    
163 Gatesville    
164.0 Knowles    
167 Moncure    
169 Rosemary    
175.0 Beckville    
176.1 Byram    
179 Elton    
181 Nogan    
185 East Jackson
Jackson "JX"		 1/4 mile of track still in use by CN-IC via KCS tower - destroyed 2011
185.7 Jackson   brick depot - Mississippi Archives Offices 2017
186 Capitol Yard   yard office - ?

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FOXWORTH to COLUMBIA
Originally New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (1906 - 1933)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad (1933 - 1940)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
103 Foxworth
West Columbia
Columbia Jct		    
      Pearl River 225 ft swing span - no longer exists
105.8 Columbia    

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SIMONDS to TYLERTOWN
Originally New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (1906 - 1933)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad (1933 - 1940)
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
96.9   Louisiana/Mississippi state line  
97.51 Simonds    
99.99 Lehr    
102.44 Lexie    
105.79 Tylertown   Two depots - still existing 2017

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STATE LINE to WINCHESTER
Originally Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1851 - 1940)
Formerly Southern Railway
Part of  Queen & Crescent
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Formerly Gulf & Mississippi Railroad
Formerly SouthRail
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
62.63 State Line Alabama/Mississippi state line Depot 36x73 - destroyed 1980's
water tank - ?
warehouse - ?
65.11 Eret   Platform 16x16 - ?
68.04 Battles   Depot 16x30½ - no longer exists
68.28 Sand Pit    
70.82 Buckatunna   depot 78x26 - no longer exists
water tank - ?
72.10 Howse    
73.91 Robinson Jct. 7933 foot spur across the Chickasawhay River to Chicora and the Robinson Land & Lumber Company existed here. depot - no longer exists
passenger shelter 4x9 - no longer exists
  Chicora Spur track from Robinsons Jct. and connection to Chocora & Jackson RR 154 ft steel bridge - no longer exists
76.20 Dodson    
77.44 Winchester   depot - no longer exists
passenger shelter - no longer exists
freight shelter - no longer exists
water tank 22' diameter - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
WINCHESTER to MERIDIAN
Originally Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1851 - 1940)
Formerly Southern Railway
Part of  Queen & Crescent
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Formerly Gulf & Mississippi Railroad
Formerly SouthRail
Formerly Kansas City Southern Railroad
Currently Meridian Southern Railroad
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
80.00     rail rest - no longer exists
81.00     rail rest - no longer exists
82.00     rail rest - no longer exists
82.47 Waynesboro   depot 26x88 - moved, reported to still exist in poor condition
depot, concrete block - Meridian Southern office 2017
water tank - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
cotton platform - no longer exists
turntable - no longer exists
83.00     rail rest - no longer exists
83.55 Stanley siding still in use  
84.00     rail rest - no longer exists
84.25 Woodwards    
84.27 Henderson    
85.00     rail rest - still exists
85.91 Limestone operated by Miss. State Penitentiary  
88.12 Boice   depot 14x32 - no longer exists
passenger shelter - no longer exists
89.13 West King Jct 3408 foot spur across the Chickasawhay River depot 20x25 - retired 1925 (a building of some sort is currently used as a barn)
    spur track from West King Jct. 154 foot steel bridge - no longer exists
92 Red Bluff   warehouse - no longer exists
92.80 Hiwanee Jct with Hiwanee-Tombigbee RR depot 42x20 - no longer exists
96.49 Shubuta   depot 138x26.4 - destroyed by arson fire 6/19/2005
water tank - removed 1938
warehouse - no longer exists
cotton platform - no longer exists
100.20 Sumrall    
102.19 102 Mile Siding    
104.37 De Soto   depot 25½x66½- no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
109.18 Quitman   depot 66½x102 - still exists 2017
water tank 24' diameter - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
115 Choctaw    
  Mill (may be out of sequence) cotton platform - no longer exists
116.62 Stonewall   depot 26x40 blt 1921 - no longer exists
120.07 Enterprise   depot 30x81 - no longer exists
water tank - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
turntable - no longer exists
123.90 Basic City   depot 20x40 - no longer exists
  White Bluff (may be out of sequence)  
127.09 Bullard    
129 Sweatt    
129.68 Okatibbee   depot - retired 1926
water tank - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
133.9 South Yard Now Meridian Southern yard  
134.5 Shops   Roundhouse - no longer exists
90 ft turntable - pit remains
Freight house - no longer exists
Division Office - burned 1995
Ice platform - no longer exists
Storehouse - no longer exists
Machine shop - no longer exists
Blacksmith shop - no longer exists
Water tank - no longer exists
Coal chute - no longer exists
sand house - no longer exists
ten sheds - no longer exists
platform - no longer exists
135.27 Meridian Previously Sowashee Union depot - replaced with new structure
MERIDIAN to RUSLOR JCT.
Originally Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1851 - 1940)
Formerly Southern Railway
Part of  Queen & Crescent
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Formerly Gulf & Mississippi Railroad
Formerly SouthRail
Currently Kansas City Southern Railroad
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
135.7 NS Crossing    
140.08 Marion   depot 18x35 - no longer exists
water tank - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
144.60 Topton   freight platform 15x16 - no longer exists
146.79 Lockhart   depot - removed 1939
coal house - removed 1939
oil house - removed 1939
freight shelter - no longer exists
passenger shelter - no longer exists
water tank - ?
149 Harris    
153.31 Lauderdale   depot 80x30 - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
water tank - removed 1925
158.47 Tamola   depot - removed 1939
freight shelter - no longer exists
passenger shelter - no longer exists
162.28 Enondale   depot - removed 1939
freight shelter - no longer exists
passenger shelter - no longer exists
163.63 Narketta
Gainesville Jct		 Junction with Mississippi, Gainesville & Tuscaloosa Railway depot - removed 1939
freight shelter - no longer exists
passenger shelter - no longer exists
water tank - ?
2 warehouses - ?
165.99 Porterville   depot 20x56½ - no longer exists
168.92 Sucarnochee   depot 20½ x61 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
171.71 Electric Mills Formerly Bodka depot 30x60 - no longer exists
176.23 Scooba   depot 30x115 - no longer exists
Southern Express Building 21x30 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
182.50 Wahalak   depot - removed 1939
passenger shelter - no longer exists
water tank - ?
188.25 Shuqulak   depot 35x110 - no longer exists
water tank - ?
196.53 Klines Also known as Klines Brick Yard  
197.78 Macon   depot ?x176 - torn down 1975
water tank - no longer exists
turntable - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
  Gurleys   depot 18.2x7.2 - no longer exists
206.02 Brooksville   depot 14x30 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
211.12 Crawford   depot 30x74.6 - no longer exists
highway overpass with GM&O sign
warehouse - ?
214.95 Penns   depot 16x34 - no longer exists
219.26 Artesia   passenger depot 38x219 - burned 1970's
freight depot 20x40.4 - no longer exists
Lunch room 30x32 - no longer exists
water tank 24' diameter - no longer exists
300 T coal chute (moved to N end of Yard 1924) - no longer exists
sanding tower - still in use
turntable - no longer exists
224.12 Mayhew   depot 20.2x? - moved and used as storage shed
highway overpass with GM&O sign
warehouse - no longer exists
227.04 Tibbee   depot - removed 1939
passenger shelter - no longer exists
water tank - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
230.5 CGRR Louisville Dist    
232.45 West Point Note: Part of original line inside town abandoned and used as hiking trail. Current line rerouted around southwestern part of town. passenger depot - no longer exists
freight house 30x150 - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
turntable - no longer exists
233.0 West Point Jct    
  Conrads    
240 Loohatan   warehouse - ?
241.34 Muldon   depot 25x93 (reblt 1917) - retired 1944
243 Grenelle    
245.74 Prairie   depot 30x62 (reblt 1917)- no longer exists
249.53 Gibson   depot 37.7x21.5 (reblt 1921) - no longer exists
253.77 Egypt   depot 30½x21½ - no longer exists
261.43 Okolona   depot 30x179 - burned July 1969
roundhouse - removed 1929
75' turntable - replaced 1929
90' turntable - no longer exists
water tank 24' diameter - no longer exists
coal chute 35x35 - no longer exists
sand house 6x10 - no longer exists
machine shop 26x40 - ?
266.1 Chickasaw    
269 Shannon Previously Koonowah or Coonowah depot 20x54.4 - burned 1934
depot 20x54.4 (reblt 1934) - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
271.53 Glen    
273.1 Arvin    
274 Verona   depot 26x60 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
279.00 Tupelo   passenger depot 54x120 - no longer exists
freight depot 32.5x151.6 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
water tank - no longer exists
287.53 Saltillo   depot 24x80 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
292.4 Guntown   depot 30.5x70.5 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
297.40 Baldwyn   depot 30.4x125 - no longer exists
warehouse - ?
water tank - no longer exists
turntable - no longer exists
302 Wheelers   depot - removed 1939
passenger shelter - no longer exists
freight shelter - no longer exists
water tank - no longer exists
308.57 Booneville  
  • depot 34x160 - still standing 2017. Used by City Chamber of Commerce and railroad museum with GM&O caboose
  • warehouse - no longer exists
313 Thrasher   depot 20x30 - no longer exists
316.67 Rienzi   depot 17x60 - no longer exists
warehouse - no longer exists
  Alcorn   waiting shed 10x32 (blt 1917) - no longer exists
323.57 Jobes   depot - no longer exists
328.85 Corinth  
  • Union depot (blt 1919) - still standing 2017 as museum with caboose and motorcar.
  • 85 foot turntable - removed 1936
  • motor car shed - still standing 1999
  • coal bin - no longer exists
  • sand house - no longer exists
  • freight house - no longer exists
  • express office 62x32 - no longer exists
  • water tank - no longer exists
328.9 NS Crossing    
330.51
(526.0)		 Ruslor Jct   depot 16x22 - no longer exists
RUSLOR JCT. to TENNESSEE LINE
Originally Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1851 - 1940)
Formerly Southern Railway
Part of  Queen & Crescent
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1940 - 1972)
Formerly Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1972 - )
Formerly Gulf & Mississippi Railroad
Formerly SouthRail
Formerly Norfolk Southern Railroad
Currently West Tennessee Railroad
333
(522.9)		   Tennessee/Mississippi state line  

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ARTESIA to STARKVILLE
Originally Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
0 Artesia   Coal Chute - no longer exists
3 Askew    
4.20 Sessums   depot - no longer exists
8.13 Turkey Creek    
9.61 A&M College
State College		   depot - used by Miss. State 2017
10.92 Freight Depot   still exists 2017
11.33 Starkville (union depot)   60 ft Turntable - no longer exists
Joint GM&O/IC depot - still exists 2017

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MULDON to ABERDEEN
Originally Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Formerly Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
0 Muldon    
  Terrells    
3 Sykes    
  Howards    
8.77 Aberdeen   depot - still exists 2017

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NARKEETA to ALABAMA STATE LINE
Originally Gainesville & Mississippi Railroad (1852 - 1854)
Formerly Mississippi, Gainesville & Tuscaloosa Railroad (1854 - 1870)
Formerly Mobile & Ohio Railroad (1870 - 1879)
Currently abandoned (1879)
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
0 Narkeeta
Gainesville Jct.		    
3 Ball's    
7 Winston Mississippi/Alabama state line  

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LAUDERDALE to ALABAMA STATE LINE
Originally Alabama Central Railroad
Formerly East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
0 Lauderdale    
    Alabama/Mississippi state line  

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DILLON to LOUISIANA STATE LINE
Originally Kentwood & Eastern
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
  Dillon    
    Louisiana/Mississippi state line  

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ROBINSON SWITCH to HENDERSON
Originally Chickasawhay & Jackson RR (1892 - 1914)
Formerly Chicora and Northwestern Railway (1914 - 1933)
Currently abandoned
MILE
POST		 STATION NOTES STRUCTURES
  Robinson Switch Via M&O spur  
  Chicora    
  Sanders    
  Henderson    

1-19-17