Corinth, MS: Museum/(GM&O+Southern) Depot and Caboose

(Satellite)

John C Butler posted three photos with the comment: "When I retired, both RR’s had two tracks at the crossing."

Tim Senesac: Last picture is an OWLS diamond.

John C Butler: Tim Senesac 🤷🏼‍♂️What’s that?? 🤔

Dennis DeBruler: John C Butler One Way Low Speed. It pushes the flanges of the wheels up and over the other track so that track has continuous steel through the diamond. The caboose in the background indicates that it is the former-Southern track that has the speed restriction. Trains on the former-GM&O track won't notice a diamond here.

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Dalton Flowers commented on John's post

Street View, Jul 2023

The east/westish railroad was the Southern.

1950/52 Corinth Quad @ 62,500

The reason Corinth was such an important strategic town during the Civil War was because two of the longest railroads in the south came through here. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad ran east to west, connecting Memphis, Tennessee, to Charleston, South Carolina. The Mobile and Ohio Railroad ran north to south and connected Mobile, Alabama, and Columbus, Kentucky, where steamboats could carry goods up to Cairo, Illinois, on the Ohio River. The M&O eventually made it all the way to Cairo, but this section was not completed until 1882. [npplan]

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