New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern

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Amtrak station in Hammond, Louisiana, refurbished with a passenger platform along the original path of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
railroad crossing in Hammond, Louisiana
.
Currency note that says three on each side. On the tope it reads New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern above an illustration of a train and the words "Railroad Company."
1862 3-dollar note issued by New Orleans Jackson & Great Northern Railroad Company (Mississippi).

The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was a 206-mile (332 km)

Illinois Legislature. It connected Canton, Mississippi, with New Orleans and was completed just prior to the American Civil War, in which it served strategic interests, especially for the Confederacy. The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was largely in ruins by the end of the War.[2]
From 1866 to 1870, when a hostile takeover induced a change of leadership, the president of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was P. G. T. Beauregard (1818-1893), former Confederate States Army general under whose command the first shots had been fired on Fort Sumter and who during the war helped design the Confederate battle flag. James Robb (banker) was a director.[3]

Restored as part of the

Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, after merging with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
.

In 1998 the Illinois Central Railroad merged into the

freight railway but also support Amtrak passenger service
.

References

  1. ^ Confederate Railroads - New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern
  2. JSTOR 4231313
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-313-29560-7
    . Williams, T. Harry (1955). P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 273–286.
    ISBN 978-0-8071-1974-7
    .
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