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Gulf Mobile & Northern

Routes

GM&N Mainline
Laurel to Bay Springs was built as the 36" gauge Kingston & Central Mississippi in 1902-3. It was acquired by Mobile Jackson & Kansas City in 1903 and completed north to Union by 1905.

GM&N Mainline
Beaumont to Laurel was constructed 1902-1904

GM&N Mainline

Pontotoc to Houston was built in 1905

Middleton to Pontotoc

Jackson, TN to Middleton

GM&N Hattiesburg Branch
Originally built by MJ&KC in 1902-3, the Hattiesburg Branch from Beaumont to Hattiesburg was sold to the Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern in 1925.

GM&N Blodgett Branch
This branch was built in 1917-1919 to tap large timber holdings owned by John Blodgett. After the timber was cut, the branch was abandoned in 1935.

GM&N Ellisville Branch
Abandoned in 1921

Meridian & Memphis

Jackson & Eastern

Original alignment SW Fannin

GM&N Towns

Orchard
Milepost 11.3

Crary
Milepost 13.9

Semmes
Milepost 16.4

Wilmer

Moffett
2 car spur opens north

Latonia

Shipman
First called Brushy

Donavan
5 car siding opens south

Evanston

Lucedale

Isabelle
3 car siding opens south in 1924

Bexley

Cloy
Originally called Merrill Wye, it was renamed Henry by 1924. It was later called Cloy.

Merrill

Avent
Avent was the location of the sawmill of R. C. Avent & Sons. The location was later called Benjoe.
10 car siding opens north in 1924

Leaf

Royce

McLain

Little Creek
6 car spur opens south in 1924

Beaumont

Kittrell
3 car spur opens south in 1924

Carmichael
Milepost

Benmore

Hintonville

Richton

Lancaster
appeared in 1905 timetable, later removed
relisted in 1-1921 timetable
3 cars opens north in 1905

Foley
6 cars opens north in 1905
7 cars in 1927
relisted in 8-1927 timetable after being removed several years before

Rhodes
first called Loper in 1905 timetable, later renamed Rhodes
42 car siding in 1905

Blodgett

Ovett

Fox
Milepost 94
10 cars opens north in 1905
15 cars opens both in 1918

Monarch
10 cars opens south in 1918
3 cars in 1927

Crotts

Ellisville Jct.
Milepost

Lanham

Tuckers Crossing

Laurel

Hoy

Mossville

Allenton
first listed 4-1931
gone by 8-1936
Gilchrist-Fordney connection

Stringer

Bay Springs

Hamlet
Milepost 139
5 cars opens north in 2-1907

Stevens
first listed 10-1909
Gilchrist-Fordney connection
later junction with Mississippi & Western RR

Louin

Arbor Vitae Jct
Milepost

Montrose

Eureka
first listed 8-1926

Langley
Marathon Lumber Co. connection

Roberts

Bethel

Newton
GM&N Depot

Doolittle

Jeff

Decatur

Stratton

Union

Hill Track

Neshoba

McDonald

Deemer

DeWeese

Philadelphia

Burnside

Stallo

Hight

Noxapater

Estes

Ross

Louisville

McMillan

High Point

Tollison

Ackerman
GM&N Depot

Williams

Reform

Fant
3 car siding opens both in 1924

Sherwood

Mathiston

Maben
GM&N Depot

Cumberland

Dancy

Mantee

Woodland

Anchor
6 car siding opens north in 1924

Houston

Thelma

Houlka

Gershorm
10 car spur opens south n 1924

Wallfield

Algoma

Pontotoc

North Jct

Ecru

Ingomar

Mitchell

New Albany

Gale

Cotton Plant

Blue Mountain

Lowery

Ripley

Murry

Norton

Falkner

Tiplersville

Hogan

Walnut

Brownfield

Lee

Middleton
GM&N Milepost 368.6

Willoughby

Little Rock

Perdue

Duffee

Schamberville

Wilsondale

Moseley

Suqualena

Nellieburg

Hammel

Fifth Street

Meridian

Griffis Spur
11 car spur

Iola

Denco
9 cars
first listed in 10-1922

Neely

Wilson

Garner

McInnis Spur
5 car spur

Byrd

Reba

Colgreen

Herringburg

Avera

Bothwell

Grafton

Piave

Eubanks

Smiths Spur
7 car siding opens north in 1924

Wilderville
10 car siding opens both in 1924
first appeared 1-1921

Bostick
12 car siding opens both in 1924

Dushau
Gilchrist-Fordney connection in 1924

Guy

Minocqua
Marathon Lumber connection in 1924

Toomer Spur

Hamrick Spur

Fuller

King Bee

White Spur

Irving

Ray

Strickland

Gray

Barfoot

Dover

Cassel
J R Buckwalter Connection in 1927

Neville
15 cars in 1927

Kitchener

Sebastopol

Gunter
J R Buckwalter Connection in 1927

Horseshoe

Clark
J R Buckwalter connection in 1927

Exley

Walnut Grove

Tuscola

Sproles

Lena

Adban
Adams-Banks Lumber Co. crossing

Whitetown
Appollonia Lumber Co. connection in 1927

Ludlow

Henry
Apollonia Lumber crossing in 1927

Koch
Apollonia Lumber crossing in 1927

Goshen Springs

Windy

Fannin

George

Carson
Appollonia Lumber crossing in 1927

Luckney

Wells

Capitol Yard

Bissell
6 cars opens south in 1927

Burns
first called Bradford in 8-1927 timetable
renamed Burns by 9-1928
gone by 1-1935

Gilford
Gilchrist-Fordney connection in 1921

Scoggins
5 car siding opens both in 1919 and 1921
gone by 1924

Holder
3 car spur opens north in 1921
Gone by 1924

Warley

Starr

Leaf Mercantile Co.
first appeared 10-1907

Brown
first appeared 6-1915

Oak Spur

Howze
30 cars opens south in 1915
location of sawmill of Howze Lumber Co.

GM&N Farm
later called "Poultry" after 4-1931
was the location of GM&N company demonstration farm

Locke

Glazier

Carworth
location of Carter-Haworth Lumber Co.

Brinkley
Milepost app79.5
location of wye and gravel pit spur

Cantrell
Milepost 82
first appeared 1905

Gravel Pit Spur

Hendrix

Ovett Land & Lumber
first appeared in 5-1906 timetable
12 cars opens south 1906

Griffin Spur

Holliman

Randall

Tallahoma

McPherson
Milepost 99.5 app
existed by 1-1918
gone by 9-1919
Gilchrist-Fordney connection

Gardner
8 cars opens south

Jones County Hardwood Co
first listed as Lindsey in 2-1907 timetable
5 cars opens south
new siding built 9-1925

Mossville Lumber Co.
11 cars opens south 1913

Sartin

Gilchrist

Lauten

Progress

Otoe
First listed 10-1922
12 cars opens both in 1922

Card Spur

Cato

Crawford
Marathon Lumber Co. spur

Denson

Valcon

Mitchell Lumber Co.
Milepost A15.7

Belleville

Ragland

Nelsons

Lockhart & Pinkston's Spur
Milepost 17.73 (from Mdn)

Sidings and spurs

Luckney siding
758' long

Wells siding

Fannin House Track

George Siding

Goshen Springs Siding

Guy siding

Ludlow Siding

Ludlow House Track

Lena House Track

Lena planing mill spur
680' spur to Southern Lumber Co. planing mill in 1927

Walnut Grove Siding

Walnut Grove House Track

Walnut Grove sawmill spur

Walnut Grove unk spur
was not there in 1959

Exley Siding

Sebastopol House Track
1319 feet long

Kitchener Siding

Kitchener House Track
998' long

Tuscola Siding

Koch C&C Interchange-1

Koch C&C Interchange-2

Shipman siding

Evanston Siding

Evanston pulpwood spur

Lucedale Siding

Lucedale House Track

Willoughby Siding
902' long

Ellisville East leg wye

Ellisville west leg wye

Ellisville House track

Beaumont wye

Beaumont Siding

Beaumont House track

Beaumont yard 1

Beaumont Griffis Veneer spur

Benmore Siding
Removed per AFE 1907 7-5-1926

Benmore Canal Lbr Spur 1
Removed per AFE 1907 7-5-1926

Benmore Canal Lbr spur 2
removed per AFE 1907 7-5-1926

Bexley Siding

Bexley sawmill spur

Hintonville Siding

Hintonville House track

Leaf Siding

Leaf Trk 3
522' built March 1917, extended 206' Nov 1917; Removed AFE 1311 12-9-1924

Louin Siding
northand south ends extended AFE 1503 12-13-1924 total length 3389'

Louin House Track

Louin Spur

Little Creek Spur
track removed per AFE 2233 11-15-1927

Cloy Siding

Merrill wye
abandoned Sept 1917

Montrose Siding

Montrose House track

Montrose Tallahatta Lbr spur

Mossville Siding

Mossville House Track

Stringer Siding
extended 1234' on south end per AFE 1629 6-22-1925

Stringer House Track

Stringer spur

GM&N structures

Lena Depot
site of Lena depot
now gone

Willoughby Depot
Abandoned per AFE prior to 1-2-1928

Ellisville GM&N Depot
site of GM&N's Ellisville depot
now gone

Benmore Depot
Depot removed per AFE 2358 4-3-1928

Bexley depot
Depot destroyed by fire on 9-17-1923 and rebuilt per AFE 1358 9-1-8-1924
now gone

Leaf Depot

Montrose Depot

Stringer depot