Mississippi Central Railroad Company (1897-1967)

The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was incorporated under the laws of Mississippi on March 10, 1852, and consolidated into the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad Company in 1874.

The company completed a railroad from Canton, Miss., to the Tennessee line on January 31, 1860. On July 1, 1859, the company absorbed the Mississippi Central & Tennessee Railroad Company (1853-59) which extended its line to Jackson, Tenn. With the New Orleans, Jackson & Northern and the Mobile & Ohio, the company formed part of a north-south trunk line from New Orleans to Columbus, Ky., running inland from the Mississippi River.

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