Agreements were made on rental property in Vicksburg and Meridian as well as lands from some noncarriers.
The company was formed to build a line from Vicksburg to Jackson as well as banking operations.
By 1838 the company purchased a steam locomotive named Commercial from Matthias Baldwin and on November 1, 1838, a two-train daily schedule began from Vicksburg to the Big Black River.
[1] Many miles of tracks, as well as rolling stock, depots, bridges, and records, were destroyed during the Civil War.
[2] The north/south tracks through Newton (28 miles terminating at Bay Springs, Mississippi) were previously the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company[3] owned by KCS under Mississippi Southern Railroad (MSR) and leased to Watco Rail Services, located at Pittsburg, Kansas, owns 5,500 miles of short line track in North America and Australia.