M&O Freight House: (Satellite, the land has been repurposed.)
Frisco Freight House: (Satellite, it is now an antiques store.)
Cotton Mill: (Satellite)
Frisco:
M&O = Mississippi & Ohio, became part of GM&O
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| 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. |
Andrew Waldo posted two photos with the comment:
Tupelo, Mississippi: Passenger Station, Mobile & Ohio RR. There are quite a few interesting details in these photographs of the joint M&O/Frisco Passenger Station at Tupelo, which was estimated to have been built in 1910. The street side of the station is especially interesting, for it’s clear that a train is due soon: several empty wagons with real horsepower—or mule power; a carriage off to the left; and what looks like a sire on a small wagon with a crowd of “evaluators”. There are three measured drawings of this station in the notes, including floor plan, tower plan, truss section, and wall section (no elevation drawings however). The photographs were taken on 27 April 1916.Credit: National Archives & Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Mississippi. Digital Image Collection of Andrew Waldo.
John Grady: That picture is looking northwest. The Frisco main track and siding run left to right while the GMO ran bottom to top "when I worked there as an extra board telegrapher handling train orders and selling tickets for both roads. I started on the Frisco May 13, 1957 working a 2 week vacation for Mr. G E Todd at Hickory Flat, MS. Later I worked many 3rd trick (midnight-8:00am) vacancies there. Sold my first ticket to a lady going to Valparaiso, IN. Good thing she came early as it took me over an hour to figure the rate and write her a ticket. SLSF Tupelo to St. Louis, with change of trains at Memphis, IC to Chicago, transfer to another station then a ticket to Valparaiso. I think the cost was $22. and a few cents.
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Freight Houses
M&O:
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| Andrew Waldo posted Tupelo, Mississippi: Freight Station, Mobile & Ohio RR. The ICC Field Notes estimate that the M&O Freight Station at Tupelo was built in 1905. The photograph was taken on 27 April 1916. Credit: National Archives & Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Mississippi. Digital Image Collection of Andrew Waldo. |
Frisco:
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| Street View, May 2024 |
The location of the depot was easy to find. For the freight houses, I had to access my time machines.
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| 1956/67 Tupelo Quad @ 250,000 |
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| Street View, May 2024 |
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| TupeloCottonMill "We offer 14,000 SQFT of event space including a large stage and dance floor making it perfect for any event. We have a standing capacity of 800 and a seated capacity of 500." |
"2017: The Cotton Mill is now fully renovated with 14,000 square feet of event space on the main floor that was completed in 2017 with original lighting and re-purposed wood. The building also features 100,000 square feet of residential, professional, and commercial space." [TupeloCottonMill_history]
The cotton mill is in the background. The building in the foreground is the former Frisco Freight House.
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| Matthew Nichols, Apr 2022 |
They preserved the smokestack. Or at least part of it.
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| Street View, May 2024 |
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