In May of 1996 Ron Findley and I spent the day traveling through southern Mississippi to check out the state of railroading up there. And “up there” is in the context that both of us are from south Louisiana, in the lower part of the “boot”. 🙂

Naturally while in Vicksburg, which is located on the Mississippi River, we headed for the yard there. This was a bit over two years since the MidSouth Rail Corporation’s railroad had been absorbed into the Kansas City Southern. There we found a mix of both MidSouth and KCS locomotives parked in the service area.

I had first toured that yard in the early 70s when the facility was under Illinois Central Gulf rule. And the ICG wasn’t the first to utilize the yard in the years before. And over the years it never disappointed in the variety of locomotives, cars and cabooses (the latter in the earlier years). I’m unsure of the yard’s status now in 2025.