The Mississippi Tennessee Railroad is a 27 mile long shortline railroad

Shortline railroad

A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the USA and Canada...

 that runs from New Albany to Falkner, MS, and previously extended from Houston, Mississippi

Houston, Mississippi

Houston is a city in and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,079 at the 2000 census. The land on which Houston, MS resides was donated to the city by Judge Joel Pinson on the condition that it would be named for Sam Houston, a childhood...

 to Middleton, Tennessee

Middleton, Tennessee

Middleton is a city in Hardeman County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 602 at the 2000 census. It is located at the intersection of Tennessee State Route 125 and Tennessee State Route 57. It's slogan is the "Crossroads of the South".-History:...

 along former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio trackage.

Formerly known as Mississippi Tennessee Railnet, the railroad is owned by CGX, Inc., which also owns Crystal City Railroad, Lone Star Railroad, and Rio Valley Railroad. MTNR interchanges with the BNSF Railway

BNSF Railway

The BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of seven North American Class I railroads and the second largest freight railroad network in North America, second only to the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary...

 in New Albany, Mississippi

New Albany, Mississippi

New Albany is a city in Union County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 8,526 at the 2010 census. New Albany is the county seat of Union County. New Albany was first organized in 1840 at the site of a grist mill and saw mill on the Tallahatchie River and was developed as a river port...

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Motive power

MTNR uses three locomotives to power its trains:

• 2 EMD GP10
  GP10
  The EMD GP10 is a diesel-electric locomotive that is the result of rebuilding a GP7, GP9 or GP18.The Illinois Central Railroad had three separate rebuild programs to upgrade their old EMD GPs and GPs that they had purchased from equipment dealers such as Precision National Corporation in Mount...
  
   (Numbers 102 & 103)
• 1 EMD GP7 (Number 104)