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North Mississippi & Alabama Railroad

Name: North Mississippi & Alabama Railroad
Address: Tishomingo, MS, 38873, US
Telephone: +6624240869

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We are a 42 mile Shortline railroad company ! We are excited about our upcoming freight, storage, rail equipment repair services, as well as our tourism plans !

06/22/2026

We have had a few asking, so here is a quick update on our caboose project.

We have completed a total roof restoration and seal. Some upgrades on the air brake system and some coupler repairs.
But have mainly been focusing on the interior. There have been a women’s and men’s restrooms added.
Some storage areas added, additional insulation. Lots of electrical upgrades, lighting, and venting. Prepped/wired for an on board generator. As well as additional exterior lighting has been installed.

We will eventually get to the outside paint work. But the bones are the most expensive, and time consuming matters. Safety and user/guest comfort is our biggest concern.

Plans as of now is for this caboose to serve on our tourist train one day, as a mobile gift shop, snack/drink bar, as well as restrooms for guests.

Caboose is located in the rail switching yard in Red Bay, AL.

Here is current appearance photo as well as a “what it originally looked like” photo

06/21/2026

Cool Upcoming FB documentary posts !

As many of you may know, back a few years ago our team was fortunate enough to be chosen for the lead consultants/contractor to manage the historic move/logistics of the famous East Broad Top Railroad #3 Baldwin Steam locomotive from Mt. Union, PA to Red Bay, AL.

We have always been known to love a challenge. But this one was a very long and daunting task.
As one can imagine, there is an insane amount of planning and balancing that has to take place in a story like we will be sharing over the next several months with our followers and friends.

We traveled to PA several times over the span of approximately 2 years to put this project together. We documented this journey with tons of photos and videos, and will share our experiences and information on the locomotive and tender that we discovered.

This will be approximately 6-8 part/posts over next several months. Placed at random times/dates.

NOTE : WE HAD NO PART IN THE COSMETIC RESTORATION ON THE LOCOMOTIVE , OR IN THE FIRST REMOVAL FROM THE BUILDING IT WAS PARKED IN SINCE 1956. NOR ANY CUTTING OF ANY COMPONENTS ! Details will be posted later on in the documentary.
Hate comments from trolls will be deleted !

However, we did have to remove numerous items in order to secure and transport, and then replace them back once unit was set up in Red Bay.

We will be happy to share ALL the FACTS with everyone, answer questions, and clarify so many RUMORS.

Please follow this journey that critics said would be impossible to do. We were happy to be a part of this historic preservation project.

06/19/2026

We recently added this cool little creature to our motorcar/speeder collection. We did not have a full cab unit until now. This one is in fairly good condition. Shouldn’t take to much to have her ready.

Let’s here from experience riders about the pros and cons on full cab ?
How do stop the track noise from sounding like you are riding in a 55 gallon steel barrel !

This is number 8 in our collection.

06/14/2026

COMING SOON !

We have a HUGE new Historical Preservation Project to announce. One that we have had our eyes on since around 1996. But started to secretly pursue heavy since January 2025.

This is a 100+ year old, a one of a kind, very unusual, forgotten piece of local railroad history.
One that guests will be excited to experience for another 100 years !
It will be a huge focal point of our future tourism related plans for the railroad.

If any of our followers would like to guess in the comments feel free, it will be fun to see and share with others!

Stay tune ………….

06/11/2026

Time for another …..
quick “THROWBACK THURSDAY”

We promised when we started doing throwback to throw in some interesting things we have done in the industry throughout the years. Here is a unusual one.

Back a few years ago a long time customer and friend from the Northeastern US called us. They asked a question you don’t get everyday in the railroad business.

“Can you go to an active Texas Military Base and put a vintage locomotive onto a flatcar?”

Of course, the answer was SURE, not our first rodeo! How quick do you need it ?

The locomotive is a 1950’s
80 Ton GE Switcher.
It was built for the US Army and has had tons of upgrades throughout the years. A very solid unit. Equipped with 2 Large Cummins Diesel Engines. Sweet unit for sure.

Even though the unit was in excellent rail worthy condition, it could not be moved on its own wheels due to a couple very important safety issues.

First, a switcher unit is low geared for pulling performance and for slow speed travel in an captive environment such as a large military base or large industrial complex. Kinda like a tractor.
Basically built to be used off the general railroad network.

Second, is that it does not have the more modern safety alignment control couplers.
The coupler are standard AAR design, but are not compliant for long, high speed train travel on most class 1 Railroads.

So, we ordered a special design equipment carrier type flatcar to be delivered to the military base it located at.
The local switching company spotted the car in a location that we could get good crane access to.
And after a million chains,
(24-3/4 chains and binders) double oak wheel blocking with dual direction chalks/wedges on all 8 wheels, all light removal, boarding up all windows just to disappoint all the vandals in the big rail yards between TX and the Northeast, and a few other odds and ends , as well as a great crane company to work with, the job is done !

The locomotive made it safely to its destination in a timely manner, and is currently in daily service, and doing a great job !

Very Happy customer, and we we’re happy to get out of the Texas 110 degree weather !
This was much more affordable than trucking something this large, but it could have been done.

After 32 years in the industry, we have performed this type of job about 10 times. Most was back before we had photo capability phones in our pockets.
So Kinda rare !

Thanks for your continued interest!

06/10/2026

Digging out more 50 year old toothpicks !

Progress !

06/04/2026

And another ………..
While railcar movers are not our primary business any longer. We still spit out a couple per year from the shop (just for fun lol). If you ever get to see one of these in action, you will be amazed at what they will do.

This one was a good used shopped/serviced unit that just went to a customer of ours.
Mid 1970’s 5TM Trackmobile
Hercules LP gas engine.
Train air brake system
Upgraded LED light package
Student / passenger seat
Foam filled tires
Sweet little unit !

The 5TM Trackmobile has out sold any other unit ever produced. Well over 10k has been sold. More than double most other model sales.
Numerous ones still being used today !

06/03/2026

To beautiful not to share !
Somewhere out west on the BNSF RR sent to me a few years ago by a friend.

05/30/2026

We acquired this Caboose from the defunct MS Shortline , Kosciusko and Southwestern Railroad back in 2014. It was stored near the old depot site in Kosciusko, MS.

We had Ricky Simmons Wrecker Service out of Meridian, MS load it up onto our friends at Movin Iron out of Red Bay, AL to haul it to our Fulton, MS yard. It was offloaded by the Ports crane and set straight onto the rails.

This Missouri Pacific caboose was a very solid unit. We did some exterior repairs and paint. Give the inside a good cleaning. Inside needed almost nothing but a good scrub down and touch up work. Updated brake system.
It still had the original kerosene stove/heater in it. And we were able to save/restore the original MOPAC side decals !

We sold the unit in mid 2017
It left our yard here in Mississippi and was handed off to the BNSF to travel all the way to Portland Oregon on its own wheels !
The new owner was happy last we spoke to them.

Cool little caboose.
Enjoy its journey into us, rehab. work and etc. the photos
If anyone has any updates on it, please comment!

Thanks

05/28/2026

Time for another cool story for our :

“THROWBACK THURSDAY”

POLLARD MILL

A well hidden and forgotten area of Tishomingo County !

A landmark so hidden that even the Railroad workers throughout the years did not know it was here !

Pollard Mill was a small community located in an area between Tishomingo, MS and Paden, MS, just to the west of the Railroad. There was a large sawmill operation located there for many years. The mill employed numerous local workers. Pollard Mill had a nice water source called Pollard Mill Branch, but was much more like a small creek, that flowed into the local river at that time, (now the waterway)

There was even a small Civil War fight that took place there. Some Union soldiers lost their lives just outside the area where the sawmill was located.
The soldiers were all buried there with marked graves. But with the construction of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, the US Corp.of Engineers had to relocate the graves to cemeteries chosen by the soldiers families. But some area locals still remember the exact location of the graves.

Pollard Miil branch traverses under our railroad at the bottom of an enormous fill area, through a large concrete box culvert that was constructed in the early 1900’s.
There is approximately 60-70 feet of earth on top of this culvert, before reaching the tracks.

Now, just north about 200ft. to that large culvert is another massive concrete tunnel that is approximately 50-60 yards long. Constructed in the same time period.
This was for a long gone, historic County Road that went to the Pollard Mill community. It came off of what is now modern day MS Hwy. 30 and connected to modern day County Road 961 (aka Crows Neck Road).

Through the years it has been called a few different names. Some locals and maps have referred to it as Panther Creek tunnel, due to the larger Panther Creek being located just to north of tunnel. Others have called it the 4 wheeler tunnel, due to fact that for years folks on atv’s could still traverse the old closed down county road.

We are going to to stick with the name that is best suited for it: Pollard Mill Tunnel . That was the main purpose of it’s construction. There has been thousands of loads of logs, and finished milled lumber move through it over the last century !

This tunnel is ONLY excess-able by rail, all land that was formerly the county road is now private property (with no trespassing signs with fences and gates.

We will be visiting this historic local marvel with our future rail tour guests, It will make for a great photo shoot and “selfie station” !

And who said that there wasn’t a tunnel on our Railroad ? Lol

Thank you.

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Tishomingo, MS
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