Museums trace history of Mississippi towns and railroads. JACKSON – Lisa Miller was showing a couple from Boston around Cleveland's Martin and Sue King Railroad Heritage Museum when she asked ...

Like many communities in the 19th century, when a rail line opened in an area, it was one more step out of the wilderness.

Senators attached $700 million to reroute a railroad to facilitate casino development in Mississippi, $4 billion for a farm bailout even as the farm economy booms, $594 million in additional ...

Railway seeks historic designation DULUTH--Efforts to preserve the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad received a boost this week, when the Duluth Planning Commission voted 8-0 in support of ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Coast Railroad Museum is on track to become the largest railroad museum in the country. A multi-million dollar project will feature 50,000 square feet of ...

This summer, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) began a project in Leland on U.S. 82 with a history that dates back to the early 1900s.

The original Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad's first train from St. Paul pulled into Duluth late on Aug. 1, 1870. It was the first train between the two cities. ADVERTISEMENT ...

JACKSON, Miss. – The site of a train-tour bus crash that killed four people in Mississippi has a troubling history of accidents, including two this year, local and federal officials said Wednesday.

Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. View from a railroad water tank, in Leland, Miss., April 30, 1927, showing livestock brought to the highest point and stationed on ...

We’re just a month away from the open house at Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum’s South Station in Gulfport. Katherine Sutton, the museum’s marketing director, said the expansion is ...

Railroads first arrived here in 1853 - the Illinois Central in May and the Chicago & Mississippi (later known as the Chicago & Alton) in October.