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Viewing Album:  ICG Jackson District
 
By:Joe Marascalco
Dates:1/1/1910 - 3/21/2016
Album Info:Covers the former Illinois Central Gulf trackage between Jackson, TN and Water Valley JCT, MS. The Illinois Central Gulf abandoned from Jackson, TN to Grand JCT, TN and from Oxford, MS to Coffeeville, MS in 1982. The Illinois Central Gulf abandoned from Coffeeville, MS to Bruce JCT, MS in 1984. The portion from Grand JCT, TN to Oxford, MS is operated by the Mississippi Central Railway but is used for storage cars only after the last customer shut down in March of 2016. The Mississippi Central abandoned 3 miles of track through downtown Oxford in 2000 due to the City of Oxford purchasing the right of way in order to construct a new road through the Ole Miss Campus. The portion from Bruce JCT to Water Valley JCT is operated by Iowa Pacific's Grenada Railway and is used for car storage only. Also included are pics from the connecting short line Mississippi & Skuna Valley which ran from Bruce JCT to Bruce, MS, which was abandoned in 2012.
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IC 1016
Title:  IC 1016
Description:  Roundhouse employees and train crew gather on the IC 1016 at the Water Valley Roundhouse, date is approx. from the collection of Barry Caulfield
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 12/2/2012 3:59:49 PM
Location:  Water Valley, MS
Author:  AD Caulfield
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  IC 1016(4-4-2)
Views:  968   Comments: 1
IC 1056
Title:  IC 1056
Description:  sitting in the yard at Water Valley, date is approx. from the collection of Barry Caulfield
Photo Date:  1/1/1938  Upload Date: 12/2/2012 3:57:06 PM
Location:  Water Valley, MS
Author:  AD Caulfield
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  IC 1056(4-6-2)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
NO.33
Title:  NO.33
Description:  Train NO.33, a local passenger train which ran from Jackson, TN to Grenada, MS, is stopped at the old Water Valley depot. Date is approx. from the collecton of Barry Caulfield.
Photo Date:  1/1/1938  Upload Date: 12/2/2012 4:11:14 PM
Location:  Water Valley, MS
Author:  AD Caulfield0
Categories:  Station,Steam
Locomotives:  IC 1065(4-6-2)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
Strawberry Extra
Title:  Strawberry Extra
Description:  A northbound strawberry extra with 17 reefers heads around the curve coming into downtown Water Valley with engineer Norman Milstead and firemen Floyd Will. Picture taken somtime in 1940, from the collection of Barry Caulfield.
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 12/2/2012 4:16:33 PM
Location:  Water Valley, MS
Author:  AD Caulfield
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Views:  317   Comments: 0
NO. 41
Title:  NO. 41
Description:  Local NO. 41 has cut off from their train to set out some woodracks in the pass. Picture was taken from the University Avenue Bridge looking north. Picture was taken sometime in August of 1962. Today, the tracks are gone here and a road has been built on the ROW.
Photo Date:  8/1/1962  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 12:12:03 PM
Location:  Oxford, MS
Author:  unknown
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Locomotives:  IC 9178(GP9)
Views:  1008   Comments: 0
IC 9363
Title:  IC 9363
Description:  A geep sits infront of the IC's roundhouse in Jackson, TN.
Photo Date:  6/26/1972  Upload Date: 9/29/2017 11:53:46 AM
Location:  Jackson, TN
Author:  unknown
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Locomotives:  IC 9363(GP9)
Views:  380   Comments: 2
removing track
Title:  removing track
Description:  A crew removes track in downtown Water Valley+ sad day, picture taken sometime in March or April 1982. From the collection of Barry Caulfield.
Photo Date:  4/8/1982  Upload Date: 12/2/2012 4:25:39 PM
Location:  Water Valley, MS
Author:  Stanley True
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Views:  557   Comments: 0
Depot
Title:  Depot
Description:  Here is the Coffeeville Depot during the summer of 1982. This railroad was abandoned this same year from Oxford to a mile or two north of this location. The tracks were removed from downtown Coffeeville about two years after this picture. You can already see the pile of ballast that is probably from the abandoned portion. This depot is now gone. Also in the picture, the old Coffeeville Hotel, which is also gone. The main line is between the depot and the hotel. The track in the foreground is the house track. The last passenger trains to stop here were No. 125 and 126 local passenger in August of 1941. The last agent to work out of here was in March of 1970.
Photo Date:  6/1/1982  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 10:29:36 AM
Location:  Coffeeville, MS
Author:  unknown
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Views:  473   Comments: 4
Depot
Title:  Depot
Description:  A pic of the depot when the Natchez Trace Railroad was operating the line and when the depot was still in good shape. From the collection of Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  7/1/1986  Upload Date: 8/26/2012 10:05:52 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  unknown
Categories:  Station
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Views:  295   Comments: 0
Grenada Switcher
Title:  Grenada Switcher
Description:  The Grenada Switcher is on its way back from Bruce JCT, having picked up 4 centerbeams from the MSV Railroad and 2 loads of pulpwood from the Coffeeville Woodyard. Photo by Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  4/24/1997  Upload Date: 7/1/2009 3:03:11 PM
Location:  Grenada, MS
Author:  Fred Goff
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Locomotives:  IC 9610(GP38-2)
Views:  516   Comments: 1
catching on
Title:  catching on
Description:  Curtis Hopson, aka Hop, is seen "catching on" the morning switcher, LGRWV, at Bruce JCT, just south of Coffeeville, on the old Jackson District, having just picked up one car from the MSV railroad. Hop retired in 2009 with 39 years of service.
Photo Date:  7/12/1999  Upload Date: 3/7/2006 9:06:32 PM
Location:  Bruce Junction, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  IC 9567(GP38-2)
Views:  885   Comments: 0
GM&O woodracks
Title:  GM&O woodracks
Description:  3 old GM&O woodracks still lettered for that railroad sit in the Abbeville house track complete with their friction bearing trucks.! Picture taken sometime in May of 2000.
Photo Date:  5/1/2000  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 12:22:29 AM
Location:  Abbeville, MS
Author:  Barry Caulfield
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Views:  557   Comments: 0
Station Sign
Title:  Station Sign
Description:  MP 603, picture taken sometime in May of 2000.
Photo Date:  5/1/2000  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 12:23:51 AM
Location:  Bruce Junction, MS
Author:  Barry Caulfield
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Views:  254   Comments: 0
Salvage Train
Title:  Salvage Train
Description:  One of the Mississippi Central's engines and two gons sit on the Main at Oxford ready for the track removal to start. Picture taken sometimb in May of 2000.
Photo Date:  5/1/2000  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 12:25:03 AM
Location:  Oxford, MS
Author:  Barry Caulfield
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  PREX 1605(GP16)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
Former#Oxford Yard
Title:  Former#Oxford Yard
Description:  Its hard to believe that there were 5 tracks a several rail customers right here at one time. The tracks were removed through downtown Oxford because the city paid Pioneer big money"for their 3 miles of track here to construct a new road through the Ole Miss campus. Picture taken from the University Ave. bridge looking north just a few days before track removal began. I `lso have a picture taken from the bridge at just about the same angle from the 1960's. Picture taken somtime in May of 2000.
Photo Date:  5/1/2000  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 12:25:27 AM
Location:  Oxford, MS
Author:  Barry Caulfield
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Views:  593   Comments: 0
Salvage Train
Title:  Salvage Train
Description:  One of the Mississippi Central's engines and two gons sit on the Main at Ozford ready for the track removal to start. Picture taken sometime in May of 2000 looking south with the University Ave. Bridge in the background.
Photo Date:  5/1/2000  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 12:25:45 AM
Location:  Oxford, MS
Author:  Barry Caulfield
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Locomotives:  PREX 1605(GP16)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
MP 603
Title:  MP 603
Description:  We are 603 railroad miles from Chicago, IL looking south down the old Jackson District. The cars there are some empties waiting to be picked up by the MSV railroad.
Photo Date:  4/1/2006  Upload Date: 7/15/2009 8:57:45 AM
Location:  Bruce Junction, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  474   Comments: 0
North House Track Switch
Title:  North House Track Switch
Description:  Coming by the north house track switch at Abbeville with 2 engines and 35 cars headed south. The Illinois Central Gulf sold this line 27 years ago at the time of this picture and the old IC switch stand and target still remains. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:49:09 PM
Location:  Abbeville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  450   Comments: 2
Main Road Crossing
Title:  Main Road Crossing
Description:  Coming across the main road crossing at Abbeville with 2 engines and 35 cars headed south. Abbeville is at mile 561.8, notice the old station sign just to the left of the crossbuck, a remnant of the old ICG days. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:49:26 PM
Location:  Abbeville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  451   Comments: 2
South House Track Switch
Title:  South House Track Switch
Description:  Coming south over the south house track switch at Abbeville with 2 engines and 35 cars. The Illinois Central Gulf sold this line 27 years ago at the time of this picture and the old IC switch stand and targets are still in place. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:49:44 PM
Location:  Abbeville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  372   Comments: 1
Old Mississippi Central Depot
Title:  Old Mississippi Central Depot
Description:  We are looking at the original Mississippi Central headquarters from a modern day Mississippi Central engine. The original Mississippi Central built this line in the 1850's. We are getting ready to triple out of the yard to take a cut of storage cars to College Hill.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:47:14 PM
Location:  Holly Springs, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  250   Comments: 0
Tripling Out
Title:  Tripling Out
Description:  We are tripling out of the small yard in Holly Springs to build our train of 39 cars to take south. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:47:36 PM
Location:  Holly Springs, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  379   Comments: 0
HWY 7 Overpass
Title:  HWY 7 Overpass
Description:  Going under the HWY 7 Overpass just south of Abbeville with 2 engines and 35 cars. This bridge is located at mile 562.7. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:50:16 PM
Location:  Abbeville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  360   Comments: 0
MP 543
Title:  MP 543
Description:  We are passing by MP 543 as we triple out of the Holly Springs yard. These mileposts are numbered from Chicago. Notice the fixed approach signal on the left side of the main. This approach signal is for the absolute signal entering the BNSF main at Holly Springs. You can see a small concrete foundation under the approach sign where a semaphore signal used to do this job. This semphore was here until the 1990's when Pioneer decided to move it to their corporate headquarters to put on display. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:47:55 PM
Location:  Holly Springs, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  449   Comments: 3
MP 544
Title:  MP 544
Description:  We are coming by MP 544 going south with 2 engines and 35 cars. These mileposts are numbered from Chicago. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:48:13 PM
Location:  Holly Springs, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  278   Comments: 0
Switching
Title:  Switching
Description:  We have arrived at the Roseburg siding just north of College Hill with our 35 storage cars. We will end up getting the engines we came in on as well as the other engine on the north end of all these cars and shove them to College Hill. This switch is located at mile 566.8, or about 1.3 miles north of College Hill. The guy standing by the switch is former General Manager Brad Allen, who was playing conductor that day. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:50:28 PM
Location:  College Hill, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  419   Comments: 0
stopped for lunch
Title:  stopped for lunch
Description:  We are stopped at Spraggins to walk up to the convenience store to get luch. We have 35 storage cars and are located at mile 558.1. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:48:51 PM
Location:  Spraggins, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  MSCI 1604(GP16)
Views:  687   Comments: 6
North House Track Switch
Title:  North House Track Switch
Description:  Coming by the North House Track Switch going south through Waterford with 2 engines and 35 cars. Waterford is at mile 551.5. The Illinois Central Gulf sold this line 27 years ago at the time of this picture and the old IC switch stand and targets are still in place. Engineer Robert Riley.
Photo Date:  8/26/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 6:48:36 PM
Location:  Waterford, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  411   Comments: 0
Crossing over the BNSF
Title:  Crossing over the BNSF
Description:  Crossing over the BNSF main headed to Grand JCT, TN with 1 car for the NS. Tracks from left to right are the tail track coming off of the Mississippi Central Yard, BNSF main, MC main. There used to be a diamond here until 1982. Now, MC trains have to get permission from the BNSF dispatcher to get lined up through two switches over their railroad.
Photo Date:  5/18/2012  Upload Date: 5/30/2012 9:58:13 PM
Location:  Holly Springs, MS
Author:  Robert Riley
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  MSCI 1605(GP16)
Views:  451   Comments: 2
Agent/Operator Desks
Title:  Agent/Operator Desks
Description:  This station was manned by both the Illinois Central and the Southern. The IC agent sat at the desk to the left and the SOU agent sat on the right beside where the ladder is.
Photo Date:  5/23/2012  Upload Date: 6/1/2012 1:22:40 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
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Views:  366   Comments: 0
NS 9015 East
Title:  NS 9015 East
Description:  going by the Grand JCT depot early in the morning
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 6:50:24 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  NS 9015(C40-9W)
Views:  284   Comments: 2
BNSF 6081 West
Title:  BNSF 6081 West
Description:  Looking out the IC Agents window at an empty BNSF coal train. The two hooks facing down between the windows would hold a rope with a ring on the end that was attatched to the levers that operated the IC Order Boards.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 7:00:03 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  BNSF 6081(ES44AC)
Views:  421   Comments: 3
BNSF 5972
Title:  BNSF 5972
Description:  A BNSF loaded coal heads east by the depot.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 7:01:14 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  BNSF 5972(ES44AC)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
NS 7654 West
Title:  NS 7654 West
Description:  A westbound NS train goes by the depot.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 7:02:27 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  NS 7654(ES40DC)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
former IC/SOU Xing
Title:  former IC/SOU Xing
Description:  I got the old IC main looking north framed between two cars, 518 railroad miles to Chicago.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 7:04:16 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
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Agents Office
Title:  Agents Office
Description:  This is inside the Agents Office in the depot. The window to the left above the ticket counter is for the colored waiting room, the other is for the white waiting room. The door on the right leads to the white waiting room. Its been 71 years since a ticket was sold for an IC passenger train here. The last freight ICG Freight Agent worked out of here in December of 1975.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 6:53:39 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
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Views:  380   Comments: 3
White Restrooms
Title:  White Restrooms
Description:  Here are the doors for the white restrooms.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 6:56:12 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
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Views:  360   Comments: 0
Colored Waiting Room
Title:  Colored Waiting Room
Description:  Looking through the ticket window into the colored waiting room.
Photo Date:  5/26/2012  Upload Date: 5/26/2012 6:58:39 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
Categories:  Station
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Views:  271   Comments: 0
scrapping the motors
Title:  scrapping the motors
Description:  The MSV's two engines are being scrapped in their old yard at Bruce. Too bad these engines could not have got out of Bruce before the line was abandoned as these engines were kept in excellent condition. They probably never pulled more than 15 cars at a time and were always kept in a building or under a shed.
Photo Date:  12/2/2012  Upload Date: 12/3/2012 7:15:00 PM
Location:  Bruce, MS
Author:  Barry Caulfield
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Locomotives:  MSV D-5(CF7) MSV D4(SW9)
Views:  1047   Comments: 3
South Siding Switch
Title:  South Siding Switch
Description:  Looking north at the location of the former Hudsonville south siding switch. All of the date nails I found in the switch ties were from 1952. This siding would hold 64 40 ft. cars and was removed sometime between 1969 and 1973.
Photo Date:  4/19/2013  Upload Date: 4/20/2013 1:03:02 PM
Location:  Hudsonville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  164   Comments: 0
Approach Signal
Title:  Approach Signal
Description:  Looking north at the approach signal to the former Southern Railway/Illinois Central Gulf crossing at Grand JCT. This signal is located just south of Grand JCT.
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:19:01 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  215   Comments: 0
MP 521
Title:  MP 521
Description:  looking north at MP 521, 3 miles south of Grand JCT, TN
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:19:59 PM
Location:  Grand Junction, TN
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  138   Comments: 2
MP 522
Title:  MP 522
Description:  looking north at MP 522, 2 miles north of Michigan City
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:20:48 PM
Location:  Michigan City, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  112   Comments: 0
MP 525
Title:  MP 525
Description:  looking north at MP 525, 1 mile south of Michigan City
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:23:22 PM
Location:  Michigan City, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  137   Comments: 0
MP 529
Title:  MP 529
Description:  looking north at MP 529, 1 mile north of Lamar
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:23:57 PM
Location:  Lamar, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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MP 530
Title:  MP 530
Description:  looking north at MP 530, the location of the Lamar Depot, storage cars in the siding on the right
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:24:28 PM
Location:  Lamar, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  109   Comments: 0
MP 533
Title:  MP 533
Description:  lookin north at MP 533, 2 miles north of Hudsonville
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:25:49 PM
Location:  Hudsonville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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MP 535
Title:  MP 535
Description:  looking north at MP 535, just north of the main road crossing at Hudsonville
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:27:00 PM
Location:  Hudsonville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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MP 536
Title:  MP 536
Description:  looking north at MP 536, 1 mile south of Hudsonville
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:26:26 PM
Location:  Hudsonville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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MP 538
Title:  MP 538
Description:  looking north at MP 538, 3 miles south of Hudsonville, the sign under the 538 used to read "TEST", which indicated a test mile
Photo Date:  7/17/2013  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 5:27:39 PM
Location:  Hudsonville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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