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Grenada Railroad re-opens for operation
Good luck Mr Ellis, and thank you for saving yet another rail line.
Too bad Amtrak 58/59 can’t go that way once again
At least there is some Hope left in Mississippi’s ‘Hill Country’ in the presence of Mr. Ed Ellis, and his Iowa Pacific Operations…
Is there still a branch from Aberdeen Jct. to Kosciusko?
I guess I should plan to visit Batesville for the Polar Express.
Glad those A&K carpetbaggers are gone.! Hopefully, Iowa Pacific can rebuild a line which once hosted a healthy level of local traffic.
I don’t know about that hat of Ed’s!
This was the route where John Luther (Casey) Jones ran… and met his fate at Vaughan. I’m glad to see it being resurrected for productive use.
To Jim Norton : Re: The KSRY ( Kosciusko and Southwestern)
See this link @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosciusko_and_Southwestern_Railway
From the link :“… On September 20, 2011, Grenada Railway (A&K) filed a formal petition to abandon that segment which included the KSRY interchange. That petition was later withdrawn, but the embargo remains in effect as of early 2013…”