Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
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Headquarters | Mobile, Alabama |
Locale | Southern United States |
Dates of operation | 1917–1940 |
Predecessor | New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad, New Orleans Great Northern Railway |
Successor | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Length | 827 miles (1,331 km) in 1940 |
The Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad (reporting mark GMN) was a railroad in the Southern United States. The first World War had forced government operation upon the company; and in 1919, when it became once more a free agent, it chose Ike Tigrett to charter its new course.[1] On September 13, 1940, it was merged with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad.[2]
At the end of 1925 GM&N operated 466 miles of road and 574 miles of track; that year it reported 419 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 12 million passenger-miles.
See also
- Rebel, lightweight streamline trains, built for the GM&N, by ACF
- List of defunct Alabama railroads
- List of defunct Kentucky railroads
- List of defunct Louisiana railroads
- List of defunct Mississippi railroads
- List of defunct Tennessee railroads
Notes
- ^ Railroad Magazine, January 1945, Vol.37, No 2
- ^ "Corporate Family Tree/Flow Chart". The GM&O Historical Society, Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2006-04-21.
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References
- Drury, George H. (1985). The Historical Guide to North American Railroads. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company. pp. 149–151. ISBN 0-89024-072-8. LCCN 85080107.
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Categories:
- Defunct Alabama railroads
- Defunct Kentucky railroads
- Defunct Louisiana railroads
- Defunct Mississippi railroads
- Defunct Tennessee railroads
- Former Class I railroads in the United States
- Predecessors of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
- Railway companies established in 1915
- Railway companies disestablished in 1940
- United States Class I railroad stubs