The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio was a Class I railroad in the central United States whose primary routes extended from Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, as
The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio terminal in Mobile, Alabama.
Postcard c. 1940 depicting one of the Rebel streamliners
Streamliner circa 1940s between Chicago and St. Louis.
Alton Railroad
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The Alton Railroad was the final name of a railroad linking Chicago to Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Missouri. Its predecessor, the Chicago and Alton Railroad, was purchased b
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
…to merge the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was accomplished in 1940. The GM&O later bought and merged the Alton Railroad in 1947. Isaac B. Tigrett, a native of Jackson, Tennessee, was president of the GM&N from 1920 and of the GM&O from 1938 to 1952, and oversaw the…
Chicago and Alton coal hopper.
Gold Bond of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, issued 1. October 1899
Postcard depiction of the railroad's Bloomington shops.