My Ocean Springs: 2007 in Pictures

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company began in 1850, and by 1870 the L & N had established service between Mobile and New Orleans, creating a sight that has been familiar in Ocean Springs ever since. After 132 years of service under the name L & N, the railroad company merged into Seaboard System Railroad in 1982, but just four years later, Seaboard lost its name to another merger that became CSX Transportation. With the eerie exception of the period immediately following Hurricane Katrina, the CSX line has been rolling through Ocean Springs for over twenty years now, naturally drawing the attention of Coast residents like Donna Barnes, who watches the train pass her by in Marshall Park.