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The Mississippi Delta Railroad is a shortline railroad company operating from Swan Lake to Jonestown, Mississippi, a distance of ; the railroad interchanges with the Illinois Central at Swan Lake. Currently the railroad is owned by Coahoma County and was a former subsidiary of Gulf and Ohio Railways shortline group. The current operator is C&J Railroad Company. Primary commodities include corn, cottonseed products, propane, and rubber, which generates approximately 1,000 annual carloads. Interchange is made with Canadian National Railway at Swan Lake.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mississippi Delta Railroad )〕 == History == The Louisville, New Orleans, & Texas railroad completed construction of the railroad between Clarksdale and Lula in 1884. The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley gained control of the line by 1885 and subsequently fell under the control of the Illinois Central in 1892 upon their acquisition of the Y&MV. The Lula - Jonestown route was constructed by the Mobile & North Western railroad in 1879 and later acquired by the Y&MV. Gulf & Ohio began operation of the Mississippi Delta railroad in 1985. This included operation of the Delta Oil Mill private railroad from Lula to Jonestown, as well as the route from Lyon and Swan Lake leased from the Illinois Central. The railroad hauled soybeans, cotton seed byproducts, lint, carbon black, and rubber, with traffic amounting to nearly 4,000 annual carloads in 1995.〔 Annual carloads on the Mississippi Delta railroad declined from 3,273 in 1997, 1,709 in 1998, 591 in 1999, to only 296 by the year 2000. This amount was insufficient to cover the costs of operating the line, as the resulting annual freight revenue fell from $478,298 in 1998 to only $71,069 in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=STB Docket No. AB-580X )〕 The sharp drop in line traffic and revenue after 1997 was attributed to the closure of the Archer Daniels Midland soybean processing plant in Clarksdale, which accounted for 61% of traffic.〔 As a result of the sharp decline in annual carloads between 1995 and 2000, Gulf & Ohio sought to abandon the line. Instead, G&O and Coahoma county reached an agreement whereby the latter would purchase the railroad - including the leased portion from Illinois Central - and the former would continue to serve the line until a new long term operator could be found.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=STB Finance Docket No. 33953 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=STB Finance Docket No. 33977 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=STB Finance Docket No. 33975 )〕 Gulf & Ohio continued service until June 30, 2001 after which C&J Railroad Company began operation of the railroad.〔 Currently the railroad still operates from a connection with the Canadian National at Swan Lake, with cottonseed products, propane, and rubber constituting the majority of the 1,000 annual carloads over the line.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mississippi Delta Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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