Railroad from Yoknapatawpha to Memphis (Location Key)

In "Lion" and Go Down, Moses two hunters travel by train directly from Hoke's to Memphis. When characters in other fictions travel by train from Jefferson to Memphis, they have to change trains north of Yoknapatawpha. Faulkner drew only one railroad on both his maps of the county, so presumably he forgot or simply ignores that fact in these two texts - or, as Charles S. Aiken suggests, he imports the western branch of the real Illinois Central Railroad into his county (see Aiken's map in William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape, 163). ("Jefferson Railroad Station" and "Jefferson Railroad Line" have their own entries in this index.)