Association of American Railroads collection, ca. 1850-1966.

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Association of American Railroads collection, ca. 1850-1966.

Association of American Railroads records plus those of three railroad companies operating in Mississippi: the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio; Illinois Central; and Mississippi Central.

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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company

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Association of American railroads

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The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Mississippi Central Railroad Company (1897-1967)

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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 & ...

Illinois Central Railroad Company

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