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Okolona, Houston and Calhoun City Railway

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OH&CC

Length
  
38.07 miles

Locale
  
Mississippi

Dates of operation
  
1933–1939

Headquarters
  
Houston, MS

Predecessor
  
Mobile and Ohio Railroad

Okolona, Houston and Calhoun City Railway

Track gauge
  
4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The Okolona, Houston & Calhoun City Railway company was incorporated in Mississippi in 1933 and purchased the 38 mile long Mobile & Ohio branch line running from Okolona to Calhoun City, MS. The railroad offered daily passenger service along the towns served via railbus and several freight trains a week.

Contents

Competition from highways eroded traffic on the line and the OH&CC filed to abandon in 1938. By 1940 the tracks were removed.

Motive Power

OH&CC had two steam locomotives and a railbus in their roster:

  • Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-6-0 # 9
  • Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works 4-6-0 # 184
  • Gasoline powered railbus (Converted from a Greyhound bus)

    • Preservation

  • The OH&CC depot in Houston, MS survives as a farm implement dealer.

    • References

    Okolona, Houston and Calhoun City Railway Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA