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	Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio (AAR reporting mark GMO) was a railroad carrier in the central United States, with its primary routes from Chicago to Mobile, Alabama and Kansas City, Missouri.
		The railroad also merged the Alton Railroad in 1947.
		In 1971 the railroad merged with the Illinois Central Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf,_Mobile_and_Ohio_Railroad (176 words)

	Alton Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its predecessor, The Chicago and Alton Railroad, was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio in 1931 and was controlled until 1942 when the Alton was released to the courts.
		The earliest ancestor to the Alton Railroad is the Alton and Sangamon Railroad, chartered February 27, 1847, in Illinois to connect the Mississippi River town of Alton to the state capital at Springfield in Sangamon County.
		Alton Railroad 1931-1947 Subsidiary of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alton_Railroad (791 words)

	Illinois Central Railroad - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		On August 10, 1972 the Illinois Central Railroad merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.
		On February 29, 1988, the ICG dropped the "Gulf" from its name and again became known as the Illinois Central Railroad.
		The name of the railroad was popularized in the song "City of New Orleans" written and performed by Steve Goodman and covered by Arlo Guthrie among others.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Illinois_Central_Railroad (1014 words)

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		Mobile and Ohio RR Chartered in January/February 1848, the MandO merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern RR in 1940 to become the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio RR.
		Gulf, Mobile and Northern RR Created in 1917 following reorganization of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago RR, the GMandN was reorganized in 1940 and its obligations were assumed by Gulf, Mobile and Ohio RR.
		Gulf, Mobile and Ohio RR The Gulf, Mobile and Northern RR acquired the bankrupt Mobile and Ohio RR in 1940 and became the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio RR.
	www.southalabama.edu /archives/html/manuscript/brockgde.htm (1001 words)

	Illinois Central Railroad
		The trunk of the railroad extended from the Mississippi River at Cairo northwest to the Mississippi opposite Dubuque, Iowa.
		In 1972 the railroad merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (ICG).
		It was the primary link between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, providing access to the South for Chicago products and culture and a route north for millions during the “Great Migration.” In 1999 the Canadian National Railway acquired the IC, but its functions, routes, and franchise have remained important to Chicago's economy.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/627.html (543 words)

	Historical Sketches
		The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad - Montgomery District
		The Mobile and Ohio Railroad (MandO) reached Montgomery in 1898.
		The railroad’s route covered a distance of 181 miles from Artesia to Montgomery Union Station and became the Montgomery District.
	www.oldalabamarails.org /history4.html (539 words)

	WHMC-Columbia--Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, Papers, 1929-1970 (C3659)--INVENTORY
		Records taken from the abandoned station of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Cairo, Illinois, in 1975.
		Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Papers were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by Gerald M. Brother on 18 December 1978 (SHS Accession No. 2209).
		General correspondence of the manager of Cairo station, 1945-1970; with Interstate Mills, Inc., bonding company for this section of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, 1934-1961; and concerning employees leaving the Cairo, Illinois, department of the railroad, 1940-1956.
	www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/3659.html (251 words)

	Office of Coast Survey - United States Coast Pilot
		Mobile, 28 miles N of the bay entrance, is one of the largest and most important seaports on the Gulf of Mexico.
		The facilities on the W side of the Mobile River are generally for handling cargo, while the facilities on the E side are service and industry related.
		Mobile is served by four trunkline railroads, major airlines, and highway connections.
	chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov /nsd/cpgulf/cpgulfMOBILE.htm (2439 words)

	The GM&O
		The original edition of The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio was published by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. in 1953.
		The Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio: The railroad that had to expand or expire.
		The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio is the product of his dissertation studies and was published in 1953.
	www.acmeme.org /gmo (264 words)

	Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company 1879
		This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a train passing by a waterfront and a period cancellation.
		This gave the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company a 100' wide use-grant right of way from Mobile, Alabama to the mouth of the Ohio River and every other even numbered Township on either side of the rigth of way.
		Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company 1868 - 1870
	www.goantiques.com /detail,mobile-ohio-rail,341010.html (196 words)

	Preserve America Community: Mobile, Alabama
		Mobile was the site of America's first known Mardi Gras celebration, and the city still celebrates Mardi Gras as a major holiday.
		By the first half of the 19th century, Mobile had become the second largest international seaport on the Gulf Coast, with cotton being the key export.
		Mobile's long history is interpreted for the public at the Museum of Mobile in the restored Southern Market/Old City Hall (1857).
	www.preserveamerica.gov /PAcommunity-mobileAL.html (306 words)

	Alabama Academy of Honor: Glen Porter Brock
		Glen Porter Brock, a mobile railroad executive, was born near Alden, Iowa, November 22, 1896, the son of Loren Ellsworth and Mable L. (Porter) Brock.
		He was on the Mobile County Board of the Department of Pensions and Security; the Alabama State Docks Advisory Board, member of the Council of Youth Oppurtunity, a member of the Council of Youth Oppurtunity, a member of the Water Works Board of the City of Mobile, and the Mobile Urban Renewal Agency.
		He was trustee for the Mobile Art Association and a member of the Advisory Board of the Mobile Symphonic Society, as well as on the advisory committee of the Friends of the Mobile Public Library.
	www.archives.state.al.us /famous/academy/g_brock.html (857 words)

	ADAH: Mobile - Alabama's Tricentennial City
		In 1763 the British acquired Mobile by the Treaty of Paris; they renamed the facility Fort Charlotte after the queen of England.
		The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad was an important railroad line in Mobile.
		This photograph, taken at the The Museum of Mobile, is of a reproduction of The Hunley.
	www.archives.state.al.us /mobile/mobile3.html (423 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Illinois Central Railroad was chartered in 1851 to build a line from Cairo at the southern-most tip of Illinois to Galena in the northwest corner of the state, with a branch going to Chicago.
		The land was granted to the railroad from the government in return for a percentage of the income of the railroad.
		As ever-larger railroad mergers were approved, it became clear that the new IC would have to expand to survive.
	www.tdf23.info /html/History.htm (485 words)

	Railroad Day features fun
		The locomotive was acquired later by the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, running as their number 950.
		Later, the railroad came under new ownership and became the IC again, with the locomotive gaining its current designation.
		Three model railroads will be in operation and display cases in Village Hall (adjacent to the auditorium) will be filled with historic IC artifacts.
	www.starnewspapers.com /star/spbiz/here/x14here.htm (686 words)

	Gulf Coast Railroad Museum
		The cars remained in Chicago-St. Louis service until 1971, when the National Railroad Passenger Corp. (AMTRAK) took over operation of most passenger trains in the U.S. AMTRAK did not require the four cars for its truncated service network, and all were retired.
		A Gulf Coast Railroad Museum member brought the car to the attention of the museum’s board of directors, which negotiated its purchase in 1993.
		The $18,000 cost to purchase and move the car to Houston was paid for by donations from museum members and the general public.
	www.kingswayrc.com /gcst/roster/alton.html (521 words)

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		In addition to a shortage of materials, the inability of the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad to make decisions on a variety of design options delayed the delivery of the sleeping cars until 1950.
		The Timothy B. Blackstone was acquired by the Pacific Railroad Society in 1970.
		Most of the history of the Timothy B. Blackstone was gathered from the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Historical Society Newsletter article on the ordering and purchase of the postwar sleeper cars.
	www.pacificrailroadsociety.org /equipment/passenger/blackstone (436 words)

	Chicago Railroad Fair, 1949 - Guide Book and Photos - Presented by Richard Leonard's Rail Archive (railarchive.net)
		Exhibits sponsored by individual railroads or firms highlighted regional color in the areas they served, as well as their equipment and other enticements for the traveling public.
		President of the Railroad Fair was Lenox R. Lohr, president of Chicago's distinguished Museum of Science and Industry.
		The fair's Board of Directors included such railroad industry luminaries as John W. Barriger (then president of the Monon Route), William N. Deramus III (president of the Chicago Great Western) and Wayne A. Johnston (president of the Illinois Central).
	www.railarchive.net /rrfair/index.html (426 words)

	Epilogue Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Surprisingly, all the railroad equipment employed by the Freedom Train was simply reconfigured to its original form and returned to the railroads who had loaned it.
		The colorful red, white and blue paint, brass eagles, and emblem placards with "hands holding high the torch" were all removed.
		With those commemorative plaques in place, the once-revered locomotive served the railroad on the Rebel passenger train in GM&O standard maroon and orange livery until its retirement in the 1960's as just another old diesel.
	www.freedomtrain.org /ft_home_9equipment.htm (239 words)

	Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History)
		The first U.S. railroad promoted by a large (2.6 million acre) federal land grant, the Illinois Central cost about $25 million to build; as many as 10,000 workers at a time were engaged in building the railroad between 1851 and 1856.
		At its name suggested, the 700-mile road—the longest in the world at the time it was completed—ran down the length of the state, from Chicago and other northern towns all the way to the southern tip of Illinois, at the meeting of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
		In 1971, the IC sold its passenger service to Amtrak; the following year, it merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to become the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, which had nearly 10,000 miles of track.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2716.html (580 words)

	HMPS -- Minnie Mitchell Archives
		Historic Mobile Preservation Society was founded in 1935 as a grassroots membership group dedicated to preserving the tangible links to the past for the benefit of present and future generations.
		One of the main objectives of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society is the preservation of records, books, documents and memorabilia relating to Mobile's history.
		The Historic Mobile Preservation Society continually studies ways to expand its archival program as an aid to teachers and students, for providing community program materials, and as an important asset to Mobile's overall historic preservation effort.
	www.historicmobile.org /archives.htm (1273 words)

	Southeast NPL/NPL Caliber Cleanup Site Summaries - ICG Iselin Railroad Yard \| Land Cleanup and Wastes \| US EPA
		The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co. operated the facility as a railroad station and maintenance depot from 1906 until 1940 when Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company purchased Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co. Gulf Mobile continued to use the facility as a railyard.
		In 1972, Gulf Mobile reorganized as the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Co. (ICG).
		Currently, the site has several contaminated units: a main warehouse; numerous railroad tracks; storage tanks; a battery waste disposal pile; a rail-car fueling platform under an open-air shed; and the railyard's pollution control system, which includes a neutralization tank, a concrete tank, several drainage ditches, and a surface impoundment.
	www.epa.gov /region4/waste/npl/npltn/icgisetn.htm (609 words)

	Historical Sketches
		The ICG sold the track from Artesia to Tuscaloosa and Birmingham to the Gulf and Mississippi Railroad on July 9, 1985.
		Through family ties, he came to an interest in railroads, especially the Mobile and Ohio and Gulf Mobile and Ohio.
		He is an active photographer, researcher, writer, timetable collector, and scale modeler on railroad subjects as a hobby.
	www.oldalabamarails.org /history4_4.html (226 words)

	Railwear - Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
		The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad had some of the most beautiful GP30 diesels of all, and this mouse pad features one in front of a steel mill.
		The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad had some of the most colorful diesels of all.
		Featuring one of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad's beautiful ALCO DL109 streamlined passenger diesel locomotives, in a very early paint scheme.
	www.rebelrails.com /shop/index.php?action=category&id=30 (279 words)

	Chicago and Alton Railroad Plat Maps (KC195) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Chicago and Alton Railroad began service in 1847 in Illinois as the Alton and Sangamon Railroad and by the early 1850s linked Alton to Springfield and Joliet.
		After the Company's third receivership, it was sold to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1929 and renamed the Alton Railroad.
		In 1942, the Line was again sold to the Isaac Tigrett System where it helped form the nation's second Mid-Continent trunk line between Chicago and the Gulf under the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad name.
	www.umkc.edu /WHMCKC/Collections/IKC0195.HTM (276 words)

	National Railroad Museum – Historical Railroad Collections & Other Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The collection is the result of many years of dedicated collecting and preservation not only of the titled railroad's business and operational records, but also of predecessor roads such as the Chicago and Alton, the Alton Railroad, Mobile and Ohio, and Mobile and Northern.
		Included are extensive correspondence between railroad officials, internal reports and memoranda on many topics, employee records, operational documents for freight and passenger service, public and employee timetables, maps, plans for structures of all types, and fl and white and some color photographs.
		The working library of noted railroad executive John W. Barriger, III (1899-1976) was acquired in 1982, the generous donation of his family.
	www.nationalrrmuseum.org /collections-exhibits/links/historical-collections.php (1903 words)

	Chicago and Alton railroad map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Alton was one of the more important railroads in the early history of Illinois, being one of the so-called air lines -- meaning that it followed a very direct route, in this case to Saint Louis and Kansas City and to the cities in between.
		The Bridgeport segment of the Alton was in actual fact the Joliet & Chicago railroad, but it had been perpetually leased by the Chicago & Alton from the early 1860s onward.
		The line later became part of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio railroad, which itself was merged with the Illinois Central railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf railroad.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/LockZero/3image/CAmap.html (153 words)

	Illinois Central (#1006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Further expansion continued into the early twentieth century.In 1972 the railroad merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.
		Most of these lines were bought by other railroads, including entirely new railroads, such as the Chicago, Missouri and Western and Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad.
		Amidst all these spin-offs, the ICG dropped the "Gulf" from its name and again became known as the Illinois Central Railroad.
	octrr.clarion.edu /CabooseMotel/illinoiscentral1006.html (336 words)

	Locomotives and Equipment of the Freedom Train, The Preamble Express, and The American Freedom Train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Afterwards, it was sold to the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (numbered 292) for use in passenger and freight service.
		It was scrapped by the railroad, but the bronze plaques it wore on the GMandO denoting its work as the Freedom Train locomotive still exist and are in the collection of the Casey Jones Home and Railroad Museum in Jackson, TN.
		Artifacts onboard included the silver spade used to break ground for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a model of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, and a model of a linear induction motor vehicle (the kind that were going to make railroads obsolete!).
	www.freedomtrain.org /whereabouts.htm (4549 words)

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