Description: The recent creation of a nationally prominent high-speed freight line between Meridian and Shreveport, the "Meridian Speedway, has allowed the Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, and Norfolk Southern railroads to offer the shortest rail route across the continent for Asia-US-Europe transportation
Review Quotes:
"An excellent contribution to the history of railroads in the South. Southern railroading in general has been a chronically neglected subject."--Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., author of The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad
"This volume [is] an excellent presentation, in addition to being a railroad history story that ends on a positive, upbeat note."--Michigan Railfan
"Lively, well-written and informative, Railroads of Meridian is cleanly laid out, and well-printed. It will be of great interest to fans of railroads in the deep South and their motive power and operations as it shines a bright light on many lesser-known railroads of an earlier era while documenting the region's overall history."--Railfan & Railroad