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U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

Common freight carriers

Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway The Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway is a Class II railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming. It operates of track from the Pensacola, Florida export terminals, west of downtown, north to Columbus, Mississippi, with trackage rights along BNSF Railway ...

(AGR) *

Alabama Southern Railroad The Alabama Southern Railroad is a class III railroad that operates in the southern United States. The ABS is one of several short line railroads owned by Watco. The railroad operates an line leased from the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCSR) ...

(ABS) * BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary

Illinois Central Railroad The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. A line also c ...

(IC) *

Columbus and Greenville Railway There have been two uses of Columbus and Greenville Railway, both for the same rail line. Original Columbus and Greenville The first Columbus and Greenville Railway was formed by the sale of the Southern Railway operated Southern Railway in M ...

(CAGY) * CSX Transportation (CSXT *

Golden Triangle Railroad The Golden Triangle Railroad is a railway in central Mississippi, totalling length. It is owned by the Patriot Rail Corporation. The GTRA interchanges with the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) at Columbus, Mississippi, and with Burlington Nor ...

(GTRA) * Grenada Railway (GRYR) *

Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...

(KCS) * Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR) *

M&B Railroad The M&B Railroad , formerly the Meridian and Bigbee Railroad, was a Class III railroad that operates 189 miles of railroad from Meridian, Mississippi eastward to Burkville, Alabama. Additionally, the M&B has trackage rights over CSX from Burke ...

(MNBR) * Meridian Southern Railway (MDS) *

Mississippi Central Railroad Mississippi Central Railroad (reporting mark MSCI) is a short line railroad operating over 51 miles from Oxford, Mississippi, to Grand Junction, Tennessee, owned by Pioneer Railcorp. The railroad's principal commodities are wood products and ...

(MSCI) * Mississippi Delta Railroad (MSDR) * Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) * Mississippi Southern Railroad (MSR) *

Mississippian Railway The Mississippian Railway is a short line railroad operating from Amory, Mississippi, to Fulton, Mississippi. It is owned and operated by the Itawamba County Railroad Authority. The MSRW interchanges with the BNSF Railway at Amory, Mississip ...

(MSRW) * Natchez Railway (NTZR) * Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiary

Alabama Great Southern Railroad The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS), running southwest from Chattanooga (where i ...

(AGS) *

Old Augusta Railroad The Old Augusta Railroad is a shortline railroad that runs from the Georgia-Pacific Leaf River Cellulose pulp mill near the Old Augusta Historic Site in New Augusta, Mississippi to an interchange with the Canadian National Railway (CN) between Ma ...

(OAR) * Port Bienville Railroad (PBVR) *

Ripley and New Albany Railroad The Ripley & New Albany Railroad is a shortline railroad that runs from New Albany to Falkner, Mississippi, and previously extended from Houston, Mississippi, to Middleton, Tennessee, along former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad trackage. RNA ...

(RNA) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Tennessee Terminal (RJCK) * Vicksburg Southern Railroad (VSOR) * West Tennessee Railroad (WTNN)

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

(AMTK)

Defunct railroads

;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

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References

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Mississippi DOT railroad map
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Mississippi Rails
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Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...