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B-5 Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Historical Society Collections
The collection reflects many detailed aspects of the business history and operations of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, a colorful and historic Midwestern and Southern road.Included are extensive correspondence between railroad officials, internal reports and memoranda on many topics, employee records, operational documents for freight and passenger service, public and employee timetables, maps, plans for structures of all types, and black & white and some color photographs. The records date generally from the late 1800s through the 1970s, with the strongest concentrations in the early 1900s, and from 1940-1960. The collection is arranged in 14 subjects or document types identified by series number:
Series 1: Executive Papers (including Mergers and the H.B. Vorhees Files);
Series 2: Annual Reports;
Series 3: Legal Papers;
Series 4: Personnel Records;
Series 5: Traffic and Transportation;
Series 6: Operations;
Series 7: Mechanical;
Series 8: Engineering and Maintenance of Way (including Maps, Track Charts and Profiles);
Series 9: Photographs;
Series 10: Railroad Employee Magazines and Newsletters;
Series 11: Other Railroads and Organizations;
Series 12: GM&O Historical Society Files;
Series 13: Oversized and Framed Materials and Artifacts;
Series 14:Additional Subcollections (identified by original collectors' names: Norbert Shacklette (documents on Chicago & Alton Steam Locomotives and their maintenance); M. Barkoviac (Chicago & Alton contracts, tariffs, and correspondence); and Lee Hastman (detailed Chicago & Alton passenger car specifications and plans).
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draggable directories
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- Chicago and Alton 1905 Public Timetable
- Public timetable for 1905 showing trains run by the Chicago and Alton Railroad
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- Chicago and Alton Railroad November 1929 Public Timetable
- Public timetable of trains for the Chicago and Alton Railroad effective November 1929.
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- Chicago and Alton Railroad October-November 1928 Public Timetable
- Public timetable of trains for the Chicago and Alton Railroad for October to November 1928.
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- Chicago and Alton Railroad Western Division Timetable 4
- Employee Timetable for the line between Roodhouse, IL and Kansas City, MO dated July 4, 1920.
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- Chicago and Alton Railway July-August-September 1930 Public Timetable
- Public Timetable for July-September 1930 for passenger trains on the Chicago and Alton Railroad
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- Coming! A Great New Train Service for Two Great Cities The Ozark State Zephyr
- Advertisement for the Ozark State Zephyr for St. Louis Newspapers, 1936.
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- Condensed Profile from Mexico to Cedar City, MO
- Track Chart showing grades and curvit
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- GM&O Dispatcher Sheets
- 4 Dispatcher sheets from the GM&O Railroad
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- Industrial Track Numbers and Spotting Codes St. Louis, MO
- Handbook of the St. Louis Terminal Division of the Missouri Pacific, Texas Pacific and C&EI
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- Map of Alton RR Repair and other Facilities
- Map showing railroad facilities across the Alton Railroad.
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- The Rebel
- Promotional book about "The Rebel" lightweight train set made by AC&F for the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad.
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