Mobile and Ohio Railroad
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was planned to span the distance between the seaport of Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois. On September 13, 1940, it was merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
System map of the Mobile & Ohio in 1903 | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Mobile, Alabama |
| Locale | Southern United States |
| Dates of operation | 1848–1940 |
| Successor | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Previous gauge | , 5 ft (1,524 mm) and converted to 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm) in 1886 |
At the end of 1925 M&O operated 1,161 miles (1,868 km) of road and 1,536 miles (2,472 km) of track; that year it reported 1785 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 49 million passenger-miles.
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