father was a big fan hes gone now and im trying to find what other roads the ran with in the midwest thanks guyes
I model the Go-Mo. Or at least, two rather short chunks of it. My modeling focus is the NKP’s Peoria Division between Bloomington and Peoria, Illinois. Bloomington was the headquarters of the GM&O, and the NKP mainline passed within 20 feet of their general headquarters building. On my new layout, I’ll be including enough space to model the entire structure.
I don’t remember the GM&O personally, since I was two when the line was merged into the ICG. But I vividly remember the black & white striped GP30s on the south side of Chicago, as well as what was left of their freight car fleet (I caught a covered hopper this year ('05) in Champaign, still in regular service. I’m mostly an Alton fan, rather than M&O/GM&N, and have a lot of historical data collected on the road, including hundreds of photos, the new Alton history, and a few track charts. I’ve even got a few bricks from the Bloomington HQ’s platforms!
There is an overpass here in K.C. MO that still has GM&O emblem on it. It belongs to KCS but sees one BNSF & one KCS train both ways each day. ENJOY
I , also, am a GM&O fan having grown up in Mexico, Missouri where it was one of three railroads with trackage/trackage rights-the GM&O, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and The Wabash. Although the GM&O line is now owned by Gateway Western, a part of the Kansas City Southern, there are still two overpasses in town with the GM&O initials and wings logo on them. In a previous post I mentioned I’m trying to reconstruct a couple of the GM&O buildings in Mexico and am moving very slowly on the project. If anyone out there has any suggestions for the gray and green colors used on the wooden parts of the GM&O buildings I would appreciate it. It’s nice to know there are a few folks out there that have an appreciation for some of the long-gone railroads.[:)]
The GM&O has an historical society that you may want to join. I have not seen their magazine but I have purchased some of their special run GM&O freight car kits.
Here is their website:
Dave Nelson
While living in Memphis a couple years ago I’d often drive over to Grand Junction and Corinth where the Memphis and Charleston (now NS) crossed the GM&N and the M&O. GM&O was a southern railroad prior to the Alton aquistition. Not much shakin’ N-S at Grand Junction these days, just a bunch of old boxcars rusting away. E-W, NS stomps through town often. When in Corinth, MS it’s hard to imagine how all these roads were subjected to such bloody multiple destruction/rebuild/destruction again cycles during the Civil War.