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Delta Valley & Southern Railway Locomotive #50

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Delta Valley and Southern 50 is a standard gauge diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric in May, 1954, GE #32129 for the Delta Valley and Southern Railway. It is of the type designated as a 45-ton, although the actual weight may be different from that.”
Wikipedia article Delta Valley and Southern 50, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 61 at the Delta Valley & Southern Railway Crossing, Delpro, 72395
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. structure
Township. Golden Lake township
National Register reference number. 06001263 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wilson High School Gymnasium	1.9 miles	2015
Wilson Motor Company	2.2 miles	2019
Wilson Commercial Historic District	2.6 miles	2016
Wilson Community House	2.7 miles	2015
Wilson Residential Historic District	3.2 miles	2016
Dyess Colony Center	7.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001263 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi County	All 40 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.