St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
Infobox SG rail
railroad_name = St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
locale = Missouri and Arkansas, United States
start_year =
end_year = 1917
successor_line = Missouri Pacific Railroad
hq_city = The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway was a historic railroad that operated in Missouri during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It ran from St. Louis, Missouri, to Texarkana, Arkansas, as well as to southeast Missouri. The line was initially established to deliver iron ore from Iron Mountain, Missouri to St. Louis. The company was frequently referred to as the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (StLIM&S) or shortened to simply the Iron Mountain Railway.
The railroad was robbed twice, once by the James-Younger Gang on January 31, 1874, at Gad's Hill, Missouri, and once by the Dalton Gang on November 3, 1893, at Olyphant, Arkansas.
In 1883 the StLIM&S was acquired by Jay Gould, becoming part of a convert|9547|mi|sign=on system. In 1917 it was formally merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which in-turn was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad in 1992.
Folklore
The railroad is famous for giving its name to the Iron Mountain Baby, and the railroad is reported to have paid for the child's education.
Heritage railroad
The name has been resurrected by a modern short line railroad based in Jackson, Missouri. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway operates a heritage railroad using the reporting mark SLOL.
External links
* [http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps770069-22088.html Historic map from the David Rumsey Collection]
* [http://www.mopac.org/history_stlims.asp History of the StLIM&S from mopac.org]
* [http://www.slimrr.com/ Official homepage of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, operating a heritage railroad in Jackson]
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