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Overview | |
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Headquarters | Mobile, Alabama |
Reporting mark | GMO |
Locale | central United States |
Dates of operation | 1938–1972 |
Predecessor | Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad; Alton Railroad |
Successor | Illinois Central Gulf |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio (reporting mark GMO) was a Class I railroad in the central United States whose primary routes extended from Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as Chicago, Illinois.
From its two parallel lines through eastern Mississippi, the GM&O also served Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as Memphis, Tennessee.[1]