The Yazoo-Delta Railroad (sometimes known as the Yellow Dog) was a branch line that opened in August 1897 between Moorhead and Ruleville, Mississippi.
[3] Historian Paul Oliver claims that in Rome, Mississippi, "they declared that it was named after a mongrel hound that noisily greeted every train as it passed through".
[1] Scrapper Blackwell's song "Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog" also references the Monon Railroad in Indiana.
[citation needed] The Yazoo Delta or "Yellow Dog" Railway plays an integral part in August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 play The Piano Lesson.
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