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The Old Depot MuseumRemembering Rails along the Mighty Mississippi |
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s its name implies, the Old Depot Museum occupies the historic Yazoo & Mississippi Delta (later Illinois Central) passenger depot along the Mississippi riverfront in downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi. Erected in 1907, the handsome building served passengers along the Y&MV's mainline that paralleled the mighty river from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Memphis, Tennessee. On the post Y&MV years, Illinois Central's daily train The Planter called on this station, while other IC trains called on the Cherry Street station elsewhere downtown. Although passenger service in Vicksburg is long gone, the line adjacent to the depot is still active in freight service. Served by MidSouth Rail and Kansas City Southern in the years after Illinois Central Gulf shed many of its Mississippi routes, today the line is served by shortline Vicksburg Southern Railroad. Inside, the Old Depot Museum features exhibits on a variety of topics relevant to the city of Vicksburg: Civil War battles in the area, boats and shops on the river, architectural studies, and a series of N, HO, and O scale model railroad layouts. Outside, two cabooses are on display.
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1895 Official Guide ad / collection
1895 Official Guide map / collection
1948 IC Official Guide ad / collection
1989 MidSouth timetable / collection
Depot
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Click to see The Old Depot Museum plotted on a Google Maps page
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Rolling Stock
MidSouth Rail #1605
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See also our complete MidSouth Rail Corp regional scrapbook in Mainlines
Illinois Central #9972
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Riverfront
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Riverfront Murals
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In 2001, a group of Vicksburg residents visited the Paducah, Kentucky, mural project, looking for ideas for their own community development. In 2002, the Vicksburg Riverfront murals program was begun by Louisiana mural artist Robert Dafford and his team on the floodwall located on the waterfront in downtown. Subjects for the murals were drawn from the history of Vicksburg and the surrounding area. They include President Theodore Roosevelt's bear hunt, the Sultana, the Sprague, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Kings Crossing site, Willie Dixon, the Flood of 1927, the 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado, Rosa A. Temple High School (known for integration activism) and the Vicksburg National Military Park. The project was finished in 2009 with the completion of the Jitney Jungle/Glass Kitchen mural.
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Steamer Sprague
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he SPRAGUE was the largest steam sternwheel towboat ever built for inland river service. The boat was launched in 1901 and went into service in 1902. She operated until March 5, 1948, when she was decommissioned at Memphis and from there first went to Baton Rouge, then to Vicksburg where she stayed permanently. She served as a river museum until in 1957 the boilers were removed, and she became a theater with old-time showboat performances and a tourist attraction. In 1974 the Sprague burnt down to the main deck. The hulk was beached out on the shore of the Yazoo River and left there until 1979 when she sank in high water. The hull eventually was dynamited in 1981. Today only some small remainings of the once so mighty towboat can be seen at Vicksburg.
Steamboat Sprague
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Mississippi River Bridge
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The Old Vicksburg Bridge, also known as Mississippi River Bridge, is a cantilever bridge carrying one rail line across the Mississippi River between Delta, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Until 1998, the bridge was open to motor vehicles and carried U.S. Route 80 (US 80) across the Mississippi River. It is now only a railroad bridge, though one road lane runs through the bridge for inspection by workers. It was replaced by the new Vicksburg Bridge, a short distance down river, for vehicle crossings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was built by the Vicksburg Bridge & Terminal Co. during 1928-1930 and has three cantilevered truss spans and three Parker truss spans.
The Old Vicksburg Bridge, also known as Mississippi River Bridge, is a cantilever bridge carrying one rail line across the Mississippi River between Delta, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Until 1998, the bridge was open to motor vehicles and carried U.S. Route 80 (US 80) across the Mississippi River. It is now only a railroad bridge, though one road lane runs through the bridge for inspection by workers. It was replaced by the new Vicksburg Bridge, a short distance down river, for vehicle crossings.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
It was built by the Vicksburg Bridge & Terminal Co. during 1928-1930 and has three cantilevered truss spans and three Parker truss spans.
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Lagniappe
The Yellow Dog's Depot
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Old Man River
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Welcome Wagon
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The Haunting of the Sultana
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Two Twenty from the Peabody Hotel
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Down by the Depot
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The Horizontal Regional
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Moses Parts the Waters
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Those Golden Years
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Decidedly Diamond
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Levee Lines
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Intermodal Crossing
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Snapshots
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Links / Sources
- The Old Depot Museum website
- Wikipedia article for Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Mississippi Rails page for Vicksburg, Mississippi
