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SOU timetable
Title:  SOU timetable
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Photo Date:  5/15/1932  Upload Date: 9/29/2008 6:56:35 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Bryan Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  1019   Comments: 0
SLSF 4-8-2 #1527 - St Louis-San Francisco (Frisco)
Title:  SLSF 4-8-2 #1527 - St Louis-San Francisco (Frisco)
Description:  Built by Baldwin in May of 1926, this hefty 4-8-2 survived the scrapper's torch and is currently as of 2021 on display in the Municipal Park in Mobile, Alabama. The loco was later rebuilt with an incread in driver diameter, boiler pressure, engine wt, tractive effort and added trailing booser. It was offically retired in 1952 before being donated to Mobile, AL. Rebuilt specs - serial #59201, T-54 class, 69.5" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 28x28" cylinders, engine weight of 360,890 lb, tractive effort of 56,800 lb and an added booster with 8,750 lb t.f. The photo comes from a Don Morice negative that is now in my collection.. Don Morice negative
Photo Date:  6/1/1961  Upload Date: 7/18/2025 3:22:07 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SLSF 1527(4-8-2)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
MGRR 97 1963
Title:  MGRR 97 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 1/18/2005 6:14:33 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ben Prabish
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MGRR 97(4-4-0)
Views:  1004   Comments: 0
MGRR 97 1963
Title:  MGRR 97 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 1/18/2005 6:14:54 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ben Prabish
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MGRR 97(4-4-0)
Views:  1212   Comments: 2
MGRR 97 1963
Title:  MGRR 97 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 1/18/2005 6:14:12 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ben Prabish
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MGRR 97(4-4-0)
Views:  1237   Comments: 0
LN Crane 1963
Title:  LN Crane 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 12/4/2004 7:13:53 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Jim Sands
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  1064   Comments: 1
L&N Crane 1963
Title:  L&N Crane 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 1/5/2005 8:43:39 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Jim Sands
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  886   Comments: 2
L&N Engine 1963
Title:  L&N Engine 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 1/5/2005 8:43:06 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Jim Sands
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN S1(S1)
Views:  1853   Comments: 0
L&N Round House 1963
Title:  L&N Round House 1963
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1963  Upload Date: 1/5/2005 8:42:40 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Jim Sands
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  1389   Comments: 0
GMO 1900
Title:  GMO 1900
Description:  The one-of-a-kind Ingalls 4-S in an unknown location, unknown date. Presumed in the south around 1966,
Photo Date:  1/1/1966  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 6:10:43 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Mark Forbes collection
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 1900(UNKNOWN)
Views:  1615   Comments: 0
GMO 662
Title:  GMO 662
Description:  Date and location unknown. S1s were almost exclusively used in the south and walkways on the boxcar and tank cars indicate pre 1969.
Photo Date:  9/1/1966  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 6:11:37 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Mark Forbes collection
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 662(S1)
Views:  1298   Comments: 0
GM&O Business Car 5
Title:  GM&O Business Car 5
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/21/1967  Upload Date: 4/13/2022 10:48:27 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Conniff
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  648   Comments: 0
GM&O Business Car 25
Title:  GM&O Business Car 25
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/21/1967  Upload Date: 4/13/2022 10:50:05 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Conniff
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  496   Comments: 0
LN 1307
Title:  LN 1307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1968  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 12:27:15 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN 1307(C420)
Views:  1155   Comments: 1
LN 779
Title:  LN 779
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/20/1968  Upload Date: 4/13/2012 10:12:13 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LN 779(E7A)
Views:  1629   Comments: 3
SCL 2206
Title:  SCL 2206
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/10/1969  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 12:30:57 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 2206(C628)
Views:  1249   Comments: 2
GM&O S2 1005
Title:  GM&O S2 1005
Description:  Two and a half years before the Illinois Central-Gulf Mobile & Ohio merger, GM&O 1005 was photographed at Mobile. The locomotive was assigned ICG number 1054, but all of the GM&O's 27 Alco switchers were retired without being renumbered.
Photo Date:  4/26/1969  Upload Date: 3/20/2017 6:08:30 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 1005(S2)
Views:  1637   Comments: 0
SLSF 75
Title:  SLSF 75
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/1969  Upload Date: 4/13/2012 10:12:58 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 75(F9AM)
Views:  1469   Comments: 2
GMO 1515
Title:  GMO 1515
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1969  Upload Date: 4/13/2012 10:12:53 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 1515(RS3)
Views:  1650   Comments: 2
GM&O <I>GULF TERMINAL</I>
Title:  GM&O GULF TERMINAL
Description:  The GULF TERMINAL building was completed by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad in 1907 as its headquarters and Mobile station. After the M&O merged with the Gulf Mobile & Northern in 1940 to form the Gulf Mobile & Ohio, it became the headquarters of the GM&O until that railroad merged with the Illinois Central in September 1972. The new railroad became the Illinois Central Gulf and its headquarters were in Chicago; nevertheless, this building was occupied by railroad offices until 1986. After falling into disrepair, renovation and remodeling began in 2001 and the building is now leased out as office space. (approximate date of photograph)
Photo Date:  2/1/1971  Upload Date: 10/3/2025 4:32:05 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  GMO 0(UNKNOWN)
Views:  382   Comments: 0
Office Car 12
Title:  Office Car 12
Description:  Truss-rod-equipped office car 12 HOUR OF FANTASY was 89 years old when it was photographed at Mobile, Alabama in early 1971. The car had been built by Harlan & Hollingsworth in March 1882 as St. Louis & San Francisco 1400. It was renumbered 9 on 28 April 1947, then 12 on 24 March 1948 and was used as a medical examining car beginning in July 1948. The car was retired in 1950 and sold into private ownership in May 1952, and was reportedly still around in 2020. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  2/1/1971  Upload Date: 4/6/2020 5:52:24 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  910   Comments: 0
TASD 371
Title:  TASD 371
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/16/1971  Upload Date: 8/11/2019 3:45:57 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Jeffrey Lawrence
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TASD 371(HH1000)
Views:  1281   Comments: 1
IC Tavern-Lounge-Obs. 3377
Title:  IC Tavern-Lounge-Obs. 3377
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/12/1972  Upload Date: 4/13/2022 10:53:04 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Conniff
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  497   Comments: 0
GM&O Train
Title:  GM&O Train
Description:  Two RS2's and an Alco yard engine were on a northbound Gulf Mobile & Ohio train leaving Frascati Yard in Mobile. (approximate month and day)
Photo Date:  7/15/1972  Upload Date: 9/2/2017 5:41:54 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  1547   Comments: 0
GMO 1130
Title:  GMO 1130
Description:  Red and worn, this RS1m is just about finished; date and location are unknown.
Photo Date:  9/9/1972  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 6:10:35 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Mark Forbes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 1130(RS1m)
Views:  1357   Comments: 1
GM&O Alco
Title:  GM&O Alco
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/3/1973  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 2:33:32 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  GMO 1508(RS2)
Views:  1385   Comments: 1
ICG Porter Shop
Title:  ICG Porter Shop
Description:  Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP30 519 and GP35 620 were parked at the former GM&O PORTER SHOP in Mobile, which had belonged to the Illinois Central Gulf for the past year. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  10/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/27/2020 3:10:25 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  FRANK PHILLIPS photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  GMO 519(GP30) GMO 620(GP35)
Views:  1472   Comments: 0
ICG Porter Shop
Title:  ICG Porter Shop
Description:  Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP38-2 744 and Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8270, along with GM&O GP38’s 709 and 712, were parked outside the former GM&O PORTER SHOP in Mobile. This became an ICG facility after the IC-GM&O merger on 10 August 1972. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  10/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/27/2020 3:17:00 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  FRANK PHILLIPS photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  GMO 744(GP38-2)
Views:  1491   Comments: 1
ICG 1280
Title:  ICG 1280
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/1974  Upload Date: 4/22/2013 11:26:55 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Matthew Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 1280(RS1)
Views:  1226   Comments: 1
LN 2373
Title:  LN 2373
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/1974  Upload Date: 4/22/2013 11:26:10 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Matthew Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LN 2373(S2M)
Views:  922   Comments: 0
SLSF 574
Title:  SLSF 574
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/1974  Upload Date: 4/22/2013 11:25:20 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 574(GP7)
Views:  976   Comments: 1
Frisco unit waiting
Title:  Frisco unit waiting
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/1974  Upload Date: 1/30/2012 4:24:05 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 834(U30B)
Views:  1042   Comments: 0
ICG 1280
Title:  ICG 1280
Description:  Date is the slide processing date.
Photo Date:  11/1/1974  Upload Date: 10/24/2017 12:23:22 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  David T Callahan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 1280(RS1)
Views:  961   Comments: 1
LN 2310
Title:  LN 2310
Description:  Date is the processing date on the slide.
Photo Date:  11/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/4/2018 7:44:50 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  David T Callahan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LN 2310(S2)
Views:  712   Comments: 1
ICG GP7 65
Title:  ICG GP7 65
Description:  In the mid 1970s the ICG bought a number of GP7s from the Reading with the intention to rebuild them as part of their Paducah program. Several were given temporary numbers by dropping the first digit and put on the road before they were rebuilt. This is ICG 65, former Reading passenger geep 665; it would become ICG 7734 in 1977.
Photo Date:  4/15/1975  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 1:28:35 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Paul Wilshaw
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 65(GP7)
Views:  2009   Comments: 1
ICG GP7 19
Title:  ICG GP7 19
Description:  The ICG bought a number of GP7s from the Reading in the mid-70s with the goal of putting them through Paducah for rebuild. Several were given temporary numbers and put on the road- ICG 19 is the former RDG 619; it became ICG 7913 in 1977.
Photo Date:  4/15/1975  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 1:28:55 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Paul Wilshaw
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 19(GP7)
Views:  2068   Comments: 2
TASD HH900 371
Title:  TASD HH900 371
Description:  Terminal Railway-Alabama States Docks Alco HH900 371 was being dismantled within the Port of Mobile. The locomotive was built in March 1937 as Birmingham Southern 83 (serial 68789) and was sold to Montpelier Stone in 1961 before going to the TASD in 1964. BS 86 ended up as TASD 372.
Photo Date:  5/25/1975  Upload Date: 12/17/2017 1:52:56 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  TASD 371(HH1000)
Views:  1133   Comments: 0
Used Geeps
Title:  Used Geeps
Description:  There was no difficulty identifying the previous owners of these Illinois Central Gulf GP7's at the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio engine terminal in Mobile. ICG 19 and 70 were originally Reading 619 and Frisco 615, and they were subsequently outshopped as GP8's 7913 in September 1977 and 7732 in September 1976.
Photo Date:  5/25/1975  Upload Date: 1/3/2017 5:02:25 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 19(GP7) ICG 70(GP7)
Views:  1650   Comments: 1
L&N Station
Title:  L&N Station
Description:  This building was opened as the Louisville & Nashville passenger station at Mobile, Alabama in 1955, and a few years later the Mobile Division officers, dispatchers and other personnel moved in on the second floor. This building was just across the tracks from the previous station and division headquarters, which had been right along Mobile Bay. The last L&N passenger train stopped here on the morning of 1 May 1971, the day Amtrak began operating most of the country's passenger trains. There was no passenger service here for several years, but Amtrak subsequently used the station for the GULF COAST LIMITED, GULF BREEZE and SUNSET LIMITED. The L&N became a part of the Seaboard System in December 1982, and after CSX was formed in 1986 the railroad began transferring employees elsewhere. By the time Hurricane Katrina flooded the building in August 2005 only a few railroad employees were still occupying it. The building was subsequently condemned by the City of Mobile and razed.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 3/31/2017 9:53:13 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  1749   Comments: 0
ICG Geeps
Title:  ICG Geeps
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8110 was parked next to an unusual pair of ICG GP7's at the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio engine terminal in Mobile. GP7's 5 and 3 were originally Reading 605 and 603, and were released from the Paducah Shop in February 1977 as GP8's 7730 and 7727.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 1/3/2017 5:01:59 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 8110(GP10) ICG 5(GP7)
Views:  2093   Comments: 2
The Frisco
Title:  The Frisco
Description:  Mobile Yard
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 11:12:17 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 633(GP38AC)
Views:  1679   Comments: 4
Alabama State Docks
Title:  Alabama State Docks
Description:  Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks Alco S4 541 and 25-ton GE 522 were parked outside of the railroad's shop. The 541 had been built new for the railroad, but the 522 was previously Alabama Grain Elevator 521 and was acquired by the TASD in 1965.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 3/31/2017 3:31:34 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  TASD 541(S4) TASD 522(25 Tonner)
Views:  1301   Comments: 1
TASD Coach
Title:  TASD Coach
Description:  This unnumbered Terminal Railway-Alabama State Docks coach was parked with some other cars at the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio station in Mobile. Its specific identity is unknown, but it appears to be one of Frisco cars 770-775, built by ACF in 1923 and rebuilt by the railroad during 1941 and 1945.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 4/26/2017 5:42:25 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1070   Comments: 0
TASD SHOP
Title:  TASD SHOP
Description:  In this view of the Terminal Railway-Alabama State Docks diesel shop, S2 491 was in the Auburn University blue-and-orange paint scheme and S4 541 was in the University of Alabama red-and-white scheme, while the hood of S2 451 on the left was in the later all-black scheme.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 4/18/2017 3:08:04 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  TASD 491(S2) TASD 541(S4)
Views:  1103   Comments: 1
ICG GP38-2 9629
Title:  ICG GP38-2 9629
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP38-2 9629, the EDWARD T. JEFFERY, was sticking out of the shed at the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio PORTER SHOPS in Mobile.
Photo Date:  6/29/1975  Upload Date: 6/2/2018 5:59:07 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 9629(GP38-2)
Views:  1383   Comments: 1
TASD
Title:  TASD
Description:  This was a shot from the Terminal Railway-Alabama State Docks yard tower in Mobile. The view includes the railroad’s two SW1500’s: 681 in University of Alabama crimson and 682 in Auburn orange. Both were later repainted black.
Photo Date:  6/29/1975  Upload Date: 8/29/2018 12:34:58 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  TASD 682(SW1500)
Views:  1239   Comments: 0
IC 802
Title:  IC 802
Description:  Paul Schneider Slide. The 802 was one of three SW8s on the roster
Photo Date:  7/2/1975  Upload Date: 2/5/2017 12:22:01 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 802(SW8)
Views:  825   Comments: 0
ICG Shop
Title:  ICG Shop
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8100 and ICG GP38-2 9611 were among the locomotives being serviced in the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio PORTER SHOP in Mobile.
Photo Date:  9/12/1976  Upload Date: 12/8/2017 6:13:47 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  IC 8100(GP10) ICG 9611(GP38-2)
Views:  1547   Comments: 1
SP U30C 7912
Title:  SP U30C 7912
Description:  SP U30C 7912 is a long way from its usual haunts in Southern California as it shows up in an L&N train in Mobile AL!
Photo Date:  6/10/1978  Upload Date: 9/22/2009 7:33:57 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7912(U30C)
Views:  1575   Comments: 1
ICG Porter Shop
Title:  ICG Porter Shop
Description:  A quartet pf Illinois Central Gulf units - GP10 8343, GP18 9403, GP38 9518 and GP40 3077 - were parked in the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio PORTER SHOP at BEAUREGARD YARD in Mobile. Home-made IC fuel and sand car X613 was on the right.
Photo Date:  7/16/1978  Upload Date: 8/30/2017 10:45:33 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 8343(GP10)
Views:  1121   Comments: 0


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