| For many years Wanilla, Mississippi was the crossing between the New Orleans-Great Northern/Gulf Mobile & Northern/Gulf Mobile & Ohio running north-to-south between Jackson, Mississippi and Slidell, Louisiana, and the Mississippi Central running east-west between Hattiesburg and Natchez. In 1967 the Mississippi Central became a part of the Illinois Central and five years later the GM&O merged with the IC to form the ICG, bringing both of the lines through Wanilla under the same ownership. This is a view looking east on the former Mississippi Central towards Ferguson, showing the interchange tracks between the two routes. |