St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company was a historic railroad that operated in Missouri during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It ran from St. Louis, Missouri to Texarkana, Arkansas as well as to southeast Missouri. The line was initially established to deliver iron ore from Iron Mountain, Missouri to St. Louis. The company was frequently referred to as the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (StLIM&S) or shortened to simply the Iron Mountain Railway.
The railroad had was robbed twice, once by the James-Younger Gang on January 31, 1874 at Gad's Hill, Missouri, and once by the Dalton Gang on November 3, 1893 at Olyphant, Arkansas.
In 1883 the StLIM&S was acquired by Jay Gould, becoming part of a 9,547 mile system. In 1917 it was formally merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which in-turn was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad in 1992.
The name has been resurrected by a modern short line railroad in Jackson, Missouri. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad uses the reporting mark SLOL.