The was a railroad in the
U.S. State of
Mississippi .
The company was started in
1897 as the . This line was built by the J.J. Newman Lumber Company from
Hattiesburg , to
Sumrall .
In
1905 the company's name was changed to the ''Mississippi Central''. In
1906 a company was formed to build a rail line from
Natchez to
Brookhaven . In
1909 this line was absorbed by the Mississippi Central.
For a short time during the
1920s , the line operated a service named "The Natchez Route", running trains from Natchez to
Mobile, Alabama through trackage agreements with the
Gulf, Mobile And Northern Railroad . At Natchez, freight cars were ferried across the
Mississippi River to connect with the
Louisiana And Arkansas Railway to institute through traffic into
Shreveport, Louisiana .
On
March 29 ,
1967 the Mississippi Central was sold to the
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad .
