Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
Transport company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company (MJ&KC) was established in 1890 in Mobile, Alabama. By 1898 the line reached the Pascagoula River at Merrill, Mississippi. The railroad had 50 miles of trackage in 1900 and reached Hattiesburg, Mississippi, via the Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern Railroad in 1902.
Quick Facts Overview, Headquarters ...
Overview | |
---|---|
Headquarters | Mobile, Alabama |
Locale | Southern United States |
Dates of operation | 1890ā1909 |
Predecessor | New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad, New Orleans Great Northern Railway |
Successor | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1ā2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Length | 827 miles (1,331 km) in 1940 |
Close
Several mergers resulted in the MJ&KC finally emerging as the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad