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GM&O - The
Alton Route
In Color
Volume 1 - The First Generation
By:
Jim Boyd and Joe Petric
Morning Sun Books, Inc., 200
9List
Price: $59.95
Our Price: $47.96
An examination of the
formation of the motive power of the predecessor roads of the Gulf Mobile &
Ohio. Steam and first generation diesel.
Contents Include:
Foreword...3
Introduction...4
CHAPTER ONE:
The "Rebel
Route" Predecessors...6
The Mobile & Ohio...8
M&O Map and Steam Roster...10
The Gulf, Mobile & Northern...12
GM&N Map...13
Isaac Burton Tigrett...16
GM&N and NOGN Steam Roster...19
New Orleans Great Northern Map...25
Creating the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio...31
Starkville: Summer 1944...38
GM&O and the FA...42
One of a Kind: Ingalls 1900...48
CHAPTER TWO:
The Alton Railroad...52
The Chicago & Alton...54
C&A Map...55
Alton Steam Roster...57
The Baltimore & Ohio Years...58
Meanwhile, Back in Baltimore...60
The Independent Alton...72
Postwar Power...75
CHAPTER THREE:
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio - The
Alton Route...80
Managing the Merger...84
GM&O - The Alton Route Map...86
Expanding the Diesel Fleet: F3s...88
Odd-Baldwins and Mobile Alcos...96
Diesel Dominance: F7s...102
Two Years of Steam...104
Diesels After Steam...106
Into the 1950s...108
E-units by the Number...110
CHAPTER FOUR:
Motor Car Country...114
Last of the Doodlebugs...116
Motor Car Roster, Timetable and Map...118
Railbus or Just a Monster Bus?...123
Bloomington to Roodhouse and Back: May 23, 1959...124
Gulf Transport Company...126
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Diesel Roster: 1935-1960...127
AFTERWORD:
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