I was also able to visit the Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad in Mobile this week.
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad (M&O) reached Montgomery in 1898. It built from a branch line from the M&O’s main route at Artesia, Mississippi to Columbus, Mississippi laid in 1860. The M&O’s north to south trunk line between Mobile, Alabama and Columbus, Kentucky was extended to St. Louis, Missouri in 1886. The railroad’s route covered a distance of 181 miles from Artesia to Montgomery Union Station and became the Montgomery District. Branch tracks went to Tidewater, Alabama (from there to Kellerman, Alabama over a wholly owned subsidiary Warrior Southern Railway); Blocton, Alabama; and in the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio (GM&O) era to Birmingham, Alabama on April 22, 1952 over the Louisville & Nashville Railroad from Tuscaloosa, Alabama via trackage rights.

For more visit: http://www.gmohs.org