Editing Vicksburg, Mississippi (section)

==Transportation==
The [[Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad]] and then the [[Illinois Central Railroad]] for several decades had passenger service through the city, at two different stations, one on Levee Street, and the other on Cherry Street. The IC's ''Planter'' went north to [[Memphis, Tennessee]] and south to [[New Orleans]]. The Chery Street station hosted the ''[[Southwestern Limited (IC train)|Northeastern Limited]]'' and an unnamed train east to Jackson and [[Meridian, Mississippi|Meridian]] (sleeping car passengers could continue to New York; coach passengers could transfer at Meridian's [[Union Station (Meridian, Mississippi)|Union Station]] to an Atlanta and New York bound train there), and the ''[[Southwestern Limited (IC train)|Southwestern Limited]]'' and another train west to Monroe and [[Shreveport]]'s [[Shreveport Union Station|Union Station]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Illinois Central Railroad, Tables 40, 59 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=74 |issue=1 |date=June 1941}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Illinois Central Railroad, Table 18 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=98 |issue=8 |date=January 1966}}</ref> The final train serving Vicksburg was the ''Southwestern Limited/Northeastern Limited'' in 1967.

[[Interstate 20 in Mississippi|Interstate 20]] runs east–west through the southern part of Vicksburg. [[U.S. Highway 80]] runs east–west through the city. [[U.S. Highway 61]] runs north–south through the city.

The nearest airport with commercial flights is [[Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport]], 53.2 miles to the east of Vicksburg. [[Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport]] and [[Vicksburg Municipal Airport]], to the west and to the south of Vicksburg, are, on the other hand, two [[general aviation]] airports.