Mobile & Ohio

The road was chartered in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky in 1848 as a way to bypass the slow, uncertain river travel to New Orleans with fast, reliable travel to Mobile. Construction began in 1852 and was completed at Corinth, Mississippi in April 1861, creating the longest railroad under a single charter in the US.
Black's Number 64 (map)
Track

Rail Wear

499 miles of 5 foot gauge of 68# T-rail on main line, 57# rail on branches and 48# rail on sidings
Locomotives 68; 75 names
Cars 823
Stations 80
Officers Many
Tredegar Purchases All
Produce Deliveries February, 1862
Significant Documents
MA, M&O 1-15-61
NP, RD 1-24-61
OR Series 1, Vol. 15, Page 937
OR Series 1, Vol. 24, Part 3, Page 625
OR Series 4, Vol. 2, Page 483
OR Series 4, Vol. 2, Page 487
OR Series 1, Vol. 24, Part 3, Page 875
OR Series 1, Vol. 24, Part 3, Page 876
OR Series 1, Vol. 24, Part 3, Page 938
NP, MR 6-25-61
NP, NOTP 1-4C-62
NP, TD 1-16-62
NP, MAR 2-2-62
NP, MAR 2-26-62
NP, MAR 2-26A-62
OR Series 1, Vol. 10, Part 2, Page 305
NP, TD 3-12-62
NP, MAR 4-5A-62
NP, WJ 4-28-62
NP, HT 6-2-62
NP, HT 1-26-63
NP, RD 2-6-63
NA, ENG 7-18D-63
OR Series 4, Vol. 2, Page 655
MA, GO 5-5-63
NP, MAR 6-19-63
OR Series 1, Vol. 24, Part 3, Page 1022
MA, GO 8-11-63
NP, RD 8-13-62
OR Series 1, Vol. 30, Part 4, Page 496
NA, ENG 8-31-63
NA, ENG 9-30B-63
NA, ENG 9-30C-63
NP, MAR 1-9-64
AR, M&O 2-15-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 2, Page 768
NP, RD 2-23-64
NA, QM 2-25-64
NA, QM 3-2-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 1, Page 402
NP, RD 3-5-64
NP, RD 3-9A-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 1, Page 343
NA, QM 3-19F-64
NA, QM 3-19G-64
NA, QM 3-24A-64
NP, GP 4-14-64
NP, RD 4-19-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 3, Page 806
NP, MAR 5-1-64
NP, RD 5-7-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 39, Part 2, Page 607
NP, CM 5-20-64
NA, QM 6-6A-64
NP, MAR 6-19-64
NA, QM 7-10-64
NA, QM 7-20-64
NA, QM 7-30B-64
NA, QM 9-9-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 39, Part 3, Page 855
NP, TAR 10-27-64
OR Series 1, Vol. 39, Part 3, Page 871
OR Series 1, Vol. 39, Part 3, Page 902
OR Series 1, Vol. 45, Part 1, Page 1212
NA, QM 12-10-64
NA, QM 12-24-64
NP, RD 1-5A-65
NP, AC 1-10-65
NA, QM 1-13-65
NP, AC 1-20B-65
NP, AC 1-20C-65
NP, AC 2-10-65

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