Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad

Overview
Headquarters	Mobile, Alabama
Locale	Southern United States
Dates of operation	1917–1940
Predecessor	New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad, New Orleans Great Northern Railway
Successor	Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	827 miles (1,331 km) in 1940

The Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad (reporting mark GMN) was a railroad in the Southern United States. The first World War had forced government operation upon the company; and in 1919, when it became once more a free agent, it chose Isaac B. Tigrett to chart its new course.^[1] Tigrett, a native of Jackson, Tennessee, was president of the GM&N from 1920 and of its successor, the GM&O, from 1938 to 1952, and oversaw the development of the road from a nearly bankrupt operation into a thriving success. He was the great-uncle of Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett, also a native of Jackson.^[2]

At the end of 1925 GM&N operated 466 miles of road and 574 miles of track; that year it reported 419 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 12 million passenger-miles.

On September 13, 1940, the GM&N was merged with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad.^[3]

See also

• Rebel, lightweight streamline trains, built for the GM&N, by ACF
• List of defunct Alabama railroads
• List of defunct Kentucky railroads
• List of defunct Louisiana railroads
• List of defunct Mississippi railroads
• List of defunct Tennessee railroads

Notes

References

• Drury, George H. (1985). The Historical Guide to North American Railroads. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company. pp. 149–151. ISBN 0-89024-072-8. LCCN 85080107.

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