This list of secondary sources on railroads cataloged in the Archives & Special Collections focuses primarily on Mississippi (and to a lesser extent on the South).
Casey Jones: The Life and Death of an American Folk Hero. Water Valley, MS: Gurner Video Memories, 1991. VHS recording about the railroad engineer. Call Number: TF140 J6 C37.
Clark, Thomas D. The Beginning of the L & N: The Development of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Its Memphis Branches from 1836 to 1860. Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1933. Call Number: HE2791 L878 1933.
Clark, Thomas D. A Pioneer Southern Railroad from New Orleans to Cairo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936. Illinois Central Railroad. Call Number: HE2791 I31 1936.
Corliss, Carlton J. Main Line of Mid-America; The Story of the Illinois Central. New York: Creative Age Press, 1950. Call Number: HE2791 I3 C6.
Cranford, Sammy Orren. "The Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf: A Railroad in the Piney Woods of South Mississippi." Ph.D. Dissertation; Mississippi State University; 1983. Call Number: HE2791 F4 C7 1984.
Ditto, Susan C. Comings and Goings: The History of the Oxford Railroad Depot. University of Mississippi, 2004. Call Number: TF302 M7 D58 2004.
Gloster Centennial Commission. The Coming of the Railroad and the Building of Gloster City. [McComb, MS]: McComb Enterprise-Journal, 1983. Two volumes. Call Number: F349 G46 C66 1983.
Green Diamond: Official Publication of the Illinois Central Historical Society. Special Collections has five issues from 2003-04 with various articles on Mississippi (see the catalog record for more information). Call Number: HE2791 M7224.
Gilbert H. Hoffman. Steam Whistles in the Piney Woods: A History of the Sawmills and Logging Railroads of Forrest and Lamar Counties, Mississippi. Hattiesburg, MS: Longleaf Press, 1998. Two volumes. Call Number: TF24 M7 H65 1998.
Jones, Massena F. The Choo-Choo Stopped at Vaughan: A Vivid and Accurate Account of Casey Jones' Fatal Train Crash at Vaughan, Mississippi. Brandon, MS: Quail Ridge Press, 1979. Call Number: HE2754 J65 J65.
Lee, Fred J. Casey Jones: Epic of the American Railroad. Germantown, TN: Guild Bindery Press, [1993]. Call Number: TF140 J6 L4 1993.
Lemly, James Hutton. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio: A Railroad that Had to Expand or Expire. Homewood, IL: R.D. Irwin, 1953. Call Number: HF5006 I5 no. 36.
"Locomotives of the Mississippi Central Railroad" in Railroad Stories: The Railroad Man's Magazine Vol. 12, No. 2 (September 1933). Call Number: TF1 R25 v.12:2 (1933).
Murdaugh, Herbert C. The Ripley Railroad: Mississippi's Only Narrow-Guage Common Carrier. Jackson, TN: [1968]. Call Number: TF25 R5 M8.
Muscalus, John Anthony. Mississippi Railroad Currency Comprehensively Illustrated. Bridgeport, PA: Historical Paper Money Research Institute, 1977. Call Number: HG627 M7 M87 1977.
Overall, B.W. "The Man at the Throttle": The Story of Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer. Jackson, TN: Casey Jones Museum, 1956. Call Number: TF140 J6 O9 1956.
Price, David S. and Louis R. Saillard. Natchez Route: A Mississippi Central Railroad Album. [Hattiesburg, MS: National Railway Historical Society, Inc., Mississippi Great Southern Chapter, 1975. Call Number: HE2791 M725 P7.
Saillard, Louis R. Delta Route: A History of the Columbus & Greenville Railway. [Columbus, MS]: The Railway, 1981. Call Number: TF25 C64 S24 1981.
Thomas, Edison H. Story of the Jefferson Davis Funeral Train. [Louisville, KY: Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, 1952]. Call Number: E467.1 D26 S7 1955.
Vogt, Daniel C. "Problems of Government Regulation: The Mississippi Railroad Commission, 1884-1956." Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi, 1980. Call Number: HE2771 M7 V6.
Ward, James A. "Mississippi's Southern Railroad: A Study in Perils and Perserverence" in Railroad History No. 144 (Spring 1981). Call Number: HE2791 S83 W37 1981.