Mobile, AL: GM&O & Southern Depots and GM&O Roundhouse

GM&O Depot: (Satellite, 122 photos)

Southern Depot: (Satellite)

GM&O Roundhouse: (Satellite?, I could not find it on a topo map.)

Street View, Nov 2016

Kenton Dickerson posted
Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Station in Mobile, AL
Jim Kelling shared

Donald Traser commented on Kenton's post
Trackside, 10/27/1989

Southern Depot

It looks like Southern had its own depot east of the GM&O depot. Google Maps implies that Norfolk Southern now uses this building as office space.

Street View, Apr 2019

Street View, Feb 2016

Seeing that Southern sign surprised me because I did not see Southern when I studied which railroads served Mobile. I saw only two GM&O routes, a Frisco route and a L&N through route.

1953 Mobile Quad @ 250,000

More detailed topo maps indicate that Southern paralleled the Frisco route into town. 

1953 Mobile Quad @ 24,000

Since the GM&O, Southern and Frisco trains terminated here, having stub terminals is no big deal. I suspect that the L&N depot was the building in the northwest quadrant of Dekle and Beauregard Streets.

GM&O Roundhouse

Andrew Waldo posted two photos with the comment:

Mobile, Roundhouse and Turntable, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. M&O's beautiful 9-stall Roundhouse at Mobile was built in about 1874 and photographed on 19 January 1916. The 60' turntable superstructure was built in 1897 by Lassig Bridge & Iron Co. The Tractor motor was built in 1904 by Fairbanks Morse with a 6 h.p. gasoline vertical engine. It was photographed on 18 December 1915. Ten-wheeler (4-6-0) locomotive 366 behind the turntable was completed in October 1907 by the Baldwin Locomotive Company and taken out of service between 1934 and 1940.

Credit: National Archives & Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Alabama. Digital Image Collection of Andrew Waldo.

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In addition to the above documented railyard north of Beauregard Street, GM&O had a hard further south because they acquired Mobile and Northern. I could not find a roundhouse in either yard.

1953/55 Mobile Quad @ 24,000