Tupelo, MS: Frisco and GM&O Union Station

(Satellite, the depot is gone)

Richard Crabtree posted
Here we see Frisco No. 2019 EMD E8-A "Calvacade"(1950) pulling Frisco's southbound Kansas City-Florida Special approaches Union Station and the GM&O crossing at Tupelo, Mississippi in the mid-1950's.
Photograph by J. Parker Lamb
John Grady: Winter 1956 Ray Wardlaw worked 3rd trick in that ole station and helped this ole man learn to telegraph and sell tickets for the Frisco and GM&O prior to my official training start on Jan. 2, 1957. Later worked lots of those 3rd tricks from mid '57 until Jan. 1, '65 when I established seniority as a train dispatcher.
Matt Nichols: Unfortunately there's nothing left of this depot. BNSF has a little shack office there and behind it is the Tupelo Farmer's Market.
Interesting bit of trivia for you: the Gravlee Lumber company building you can see in the background is a former World War I airplane hangar from Payne Field near West Point, the first airfield built in Mississippi. A few of the hangars were sold after the airfield closed and relocated to other places.