#32

Name	Type	Comments	Date

IC 9224	General	the approach collapsed because some yahoo set it on fire and the fire dept couldn't reach it	3/17/2011 12:32:56 PM

IC 9224	General	the approach collapsed because some yahoo set it on fire and the fire dept couldn't reach it	3/17/2011 12:33:10 PM

Fred Goff	General	Great Photo.	3/17/2011 6:46:51 PM

Robert Hammons	General	Really nice photo	3/26/2011 8:14:43 AM

Joe Marascalco	General	thanks!	3/26/2011 8:57:25 PM

Zac Blanton	General	I need some help. I know the section from Jackson to Flowood Drive was abandoned in I think 1992, was that also including the section past there to Airport Road, or was that abandoned in 1980?	5/19/2013 10:34:55 AM

Joe Marascalco	General	Well, I didn't live there but I have a friend that grew up there around in this time frame and he says they actually removed the track in the sections you mentioned in the December 1980/January 1981 time frame.	5/19/2013 11:57:35 PM

Zac Blanton	General	The section past Flowood Drive at Airport Road?	5/21/2013 10:53:10 AM

Joe Marascalco	General	My friend says the end of the track was 300 ft. south of HWY 475 in Flowood Drive from when they first pulled the track up in 1980/1981 until they started pulling more of it up many years later.	5/23/2013 6:50:20 AM

Zac Blanton	General	Okay thanks! Cause for awhile now I was wondering how far they abandoned in 1980/1981.	5/23/2013 9:48:14 AM

robert riley	General	I have ridden across this bridge a time or two when I was a kid. Everyone on the job was a former GM&O head. The bridge just south of I-55 is the one that doomed this section. In the early 1990's they would access this track by going down the G&SI and shove around the interchange track around I-20 and then come up by East Jackson and go through Capitol Yard. In later years they used the KCS to the Avery lead and connected with the Gulf States Creosote railroad who had a connection with both the IC and GM&O. I never heard of The GSCRR but it was shown on a bunch of city maps back in the 80's. I would guess it was either owned by GM&O or IC and when the merger happens it quietly went away.	4/25/2014 10:27:33 AM

#32
Northbound GM&O Freight #32 coming over the Pearl River in Jackson, MS. This crew just got on the train at Capital Yard in Jackson and will take the train to Louisville, MS. The track over the Pear River was used by the IC until the 1990's to access local industries. There is currently no track going to the bridge on either side, but there still is rail on top of the main span and on some of the approaches. The approach that is in the curve has collapsed. Picture taken sometime in summer of 1971.
Date: 6/1/1971	Location: Jackson, MS	Views: 1442	Collection Of: Joe Marascalco
Locomotives: GMO 644(GP35) GMO 606(GP35)			Author: unknown

Picture Categories:		This picture is part of album: Pearl River District

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