Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 7:50PM Produced by Jim Albritton | The City of New Orleans offers amazing views as it passes swamps, marshes and the wide expanse of Lake Pontchartrain between the historic train town of McComb, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana | McComb Railroad Depot Museum: http://www.mcrrmuseum.com
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 7:48PM Produced by Jim Albritton | St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in McComb, Mississippi hosted the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1917 apparitions in Portugal. It this centennial year, the statue is on tour across the U.S. For more information, go to http://fatimatourforpeace.com.
Monday, March 28, 2016 at 1:57AM Produced by Jim Albritton | Thousands of people in McComb, Mississippi welcomed American Idol's La'Porsha Renae home with a parade on March 27, 2016. At a concert at McComb High School, she sang seven songs and thanked the people of McComb and the region for their support. She's one of four finalists on the final season of the long-running Fox show.
Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 5:32AM Produced by Jim Albritton | A one-minute look at some of the things that make the Magnolia State great. Just imagine what Two Mississippi will include.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 1:31AM Produced by Jim Albritton | The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Crafton Beck, performs at Pops in the Park at Edgewood Park in McComb. The annual concert is sponsored by the Pike County Arts Council.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 1:24AM The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performed at Pops in the Park at Edgewood Park in McComb, Mississippi on May 10, 2014. The concert concluded with a fireworks show. Go to our Facebook Photo Gallery to see the photos of this event and click here to see all our photo albums.
Monday, May 12, 2014 at 6:55AM McComb, the railroad-built town, celebrated National Train Day in a big way at the city's downtown railroad museum on Saturday, May 10, 2014. The Mississippi city was one of only 17 US cities to host an Amtrak "train set" which includes an engine, passenger, sleeper and dining cars. Kids, and adults, too, toured the Amtrak train as well as several cars that are part of the museum's permanent steam engine display.
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McComb, National Train Day in McComb, Mississippi, Trains, Travel Monday, May 12, 2014 at 6:50AM McComb, Mississippi marked the 100th anniversary of its City Hall on May 10, 2014 with a celebration led by Mayor Whitney Rawlings that featured several of the city's past mayors and the Jubilee Performing Arts Center Choir. The ceremony commemorated the 1914 laying of the building's cornerstone. A fire in 1904 destroyed the original building. McComb was founded in 1872 by Henry Simpson McComb, the president of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad. As one of the nation's few company-built towns, it was planned and created to house the railroad's maintenance shops which were located in New Orleans.
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McComb in McComb, Mississippi, Travel Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 10:01PM Photos of McComb, Mississippi.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 11:38PM Produced by Jim Albritton | Hundreds celebrated National Train Day in McComb, Mississippi at the city's award-winning railroad museum. They toured passenger, sleeper and dining cars on Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" train and the historic postal and office railcars just added to the Steam Engine 2542 display next to the city's depot. | Visit the McComb Railroad Museum online.
McComb, Mississippi was founded in 1872 after Col. Henry S. McComb of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, a predecessor of the Illinois Central Railroad (now part of the Canadian National Railway), decided to move the railroad's maintenance shops away from New Orleans and the negative influence of the city's saloons.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 3:16PM Percy Quin State Park is just south of McComb, Mississippi off I-55 and 1.5 hours north of New Orleans, Louisiana. Named after Percy Quin, a former U.S. Representative from Mississippi, the park is home to Lake Tangipahoa and the 6,700 yard Quail Hollow Golf Course. The lake is closed for major Dam repairs following Hurricane Isaac's heavy rain in August 2012. The park's golf course, hiking and biking trails, cabins, playgrounds and most camping sites remain open. Primitive camp sites on the on the west side of the dam are closed until repairs are completed.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 5:30PM Produced by Jim Albritton | McComb, Mississippi was founded in 1872 after Col. Henry S. McComb of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, a predecessor of the Illinois Central Railroad (now part of the Canadian National Railway), decided to move the railroad's maintenance shops away from New Orleans and the negative influence of the city's saloons. The railroad purchased land in Pike County, and three nearby communities, Elizabeth town, Burglund, and Harveytown, agreed to consolidate. In the new town, almost every family was involved with the railroad in some way. In the 1980s, the shop whistle blew for the last time. Today, 14 trains, ferrying passengers or freight between New Orleans and Chicago, pass through the city daily and the McComb Railroad Museum in downtown serves as a constant reminder of the city's historic role in the development of one of America's great railroads.
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