Picayune Train Depot, Museum & Tourist Center & Amtrak Station

12/21/2025

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07/18/2023

Southern Railway Station Agent, William "Billy" Berger, family members are standing in front of the Railway Express Baggage Wagon that was donated by Billy's family to the Lower Pearl River Valley Transportation Museum.
Brian, Karl & David Dufilho members of The Last Track Section Gang, restored the Baggage Wagon.

06/10/2023

James "Jim" Crosby & Becky Crosby Bailey donated a PRVO Lock and Key Lock Switch to the Lower Pearl River Valley Transportation Museum.
Jim moved to Colorado in 1976 and Becky lives in Florida.

(Norman Howell was able to sneak away from VBS for a quick tour & visit)

06/10/2023

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HANCOCK COUNTY Miss. (WLOX) - The Southern Rail Commission preparing for a meeting tomorrow ahead of Amtrak’s return to the coast. All aboard! From New Orleans...

05/22/2023

Downtown Picayune, MS. If you look across the railroad tracks you can see the U.S. Post Office, the old Ford Hotel and the Crosby C&R buildings as well as the old train Depot. Circa 1937. Notice that the street is gravel and a house sits where Salloum's Men's Wear would later be.
Thanks to Lourie Formby for sharing photo.

03/28/2023

Memories today.

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02/19/2023

Tony Howe

Picayune first appeared in railroad timetables as a flag stop in June 1884. A post office was first established in 1891 and was originally spelled "Pickayune" (the railroad always spelled it "Picayune"), and the town officially incorporated in 1904. A railroad siding 140 cars long was first shown in...