Gloster Southern

Company History: The GLSR was born in 1986 when timber giant Georgia-Pacific restored service to an abandoned 35 mile line (formerly Illinois Central) from Gloster, Mississippi south to a connection with the IC at Slaughter, Louisiana. The purpose was to provide rail service to a G-P hardwood mill in Gloster. Four to five trains per week were run on this line. The GLSR also operated the 29 mile route of the former Columbia & Silver Creek Railroad between its namesake towns in Mississippi. That line was closed in 1995. The mill in Gloster and its leg of the GLSR closed at the end of 2002. It remained in limbo until 2013 when the track was pulled up.

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