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The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was planned to sp
Share of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company, issued 29 November 1886
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
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
…Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois. On September 13, 1940, it was merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. At the end of 1925 M&O operated 1,161 miles (1,868 km) of road and 1,536 miles (2,472 km) of track; that year it reported 1,785 million ton-miles of…
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.