can anyone tell me about shortlines of mississippi, alabama , tennessee and missouri, such as what businesses they serve and what items they carry? the lines i am most interested in are columbia & northern, cheney, meridian southern, missouri central, sequatchie valley and caney fork & western. according to my SPV railroad atlases the cheney is shown is as abandoned. columbia & northern is out of service and most if not all of the sequatchie valley is abandoned. are the seqautchie valley and columbia & northern (silver creek, mississippi-columbia, mississippi) still in business? also does anyone know if the missouri central is in business or did that line flop?
This might not be what you want,but here is a link to information about class1 and shortline railroads : www.cwrr.com/nmra/rroffic.html
Lou-
I can tell you a bit about the Meridian Southern from my own observations. What specifically would you like to know?
LC
One interesting thing about Southern short lines … they tended to use steam longer than others, and a lot of museum and tourist line steam had its origins in the south. Some southern lines were steam into the 1960s.
Dave Nelson
Lou1963,
You might want to visit the “fallen flags” Web site. The basic URL is:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-a/misc-a.html
Just substitute the first initial of a road name where an “a” is shown after both misc- hyphens, scroll down in the alphabetical listings and you should find some rolling stock and possibly some structure photos. Also try a “Google” search for historical societies in the major towns served by each line, sometimes they can be helpful. Hope this helps.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
Meridian Southern Railway (MDS)
According to the STB a 54.5 mile line between Meridian, MS and Waynesboro, MS.
GP10s 1011, 1047 and 1080 (all former MidSouth, still painted in Midsouth colors with sublettering “MDS”)
Moves grain, lumber, pulpwood, woodchips, plastic pellets, roofing granules and boxcar freight.
That is a quick summary. Questions?
LC