Mississippi Central (1993)

Company History: The MSCI was born in 1993 when the Kyle Railways shortline group sold their Natchez Trace Railway to the Pioneer Railcorp shortline group. Pioneer re-christened the line, Mississippi Central. It runs 51 miles from Grand Junction, Tennessee to Oxford, Mississippi. Until the mid-2000s, the line continued south to Coffeyville but University-Oxford Airport wanted to extend a runway across the MSCI route so the property was sold and the line abandoned south of the airport fence. Since then, MSCI has acquired 2 more disconnected routes. The first consists of 11 miles of line in Iuka, Mississippi and the second runs from Corinth, Mississippi 46 miles southeast to Red Bay, Alabama. Traffic includes aggregates, fertilizer, animal feed and forest products.

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