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Memories by Lillian Lockhart Finch (Part One)
In the late 1920's and 30's Magee had six passenger trains, two south from
Jackson to Gulfport, and two north from Gulfport to Jackson. In addition, the
"Short Dog," which had an engine, baggage coach and one passenger coach,
made a run from Mendenhall to Laurel in the morning and back in the afternoon.
For a short period of time, "The Mississippian," an express train from Chicago
to the coast passed through Magee. It did not stop in Magee unless it had a
passenger getting off or on. One pastime of the young people was meeting the
5:30 train. When the train blew its whistle at Sanatorium, everybody dropped
everything to get to the depot. Usually by this time, clothes had been washed
in a zinc tub, boiled in a zinc pot and ironed with the black irons heated on a
wood stove or fire place. "Look your best and meet the train" was as necessary
then as riding around the blocks, wagon train style down town by our teenagers
now.
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