Trying to locate rosters or any information on wrecker cranes owned/used by GM&O RR in MS and adjacent states in the 1950s - 1960s. Possibly based in Jackson MS, Mobile AL, or Jackson TN etc.

Wanting to locate a job done in Houston MS, in this era, to recover the Ingalls 4-S diesel loco after rolling down a bank with its feet pointing skywards!

What records and where archived of jobs done by each wrecker. Is there any logbooks or 'Form # ' for this info held somewhere?

Any groups or Facebook groups for this type of equipment. Derricks/cranes/big hooks, etc

Thankyou

Charles Harris
New Zealand

Hi Everone

Just a followup on an earlier post some 3 years ago.

Anyone seen info on above.

Thanks

Charles Harris

For GM&O I would try the "Fans Worldwide" facebook page, there are quite a few ex-GM&O employees on there who no doubt recall the story, and may have been around then. https://www.facebook.com/groups/149196275158122 I am a member of the GM&OHS, and occasionally in the 4-per-year printed news there are photos of cranes, and a lot of the same guys behind the HS are on the facebook page.

As for cranes, John T on this website is the guy here who would know the most about them I think.

Edit: I see you have asked about the Ingalls unit wreck over on the facebook page, so you already know about that.

Industrial Works
1692 75t W 1907 Gulf Mobile & Ohio RR
(LPO 1965)
2065 120t W 1909 Chicago & Alton #30047
Alton RR #X-38
Gulf Mobile & Ohio #66407 (to diesel)
Illinois Central Gulf #100405
2739 100t W 1913 Mobile & Ohio #W5
Gulf Mobile & Ohio #66404
Illinois Central Gulf #100402
2746 100t W 1916 Gulf Mobile & Ohio RR
(LPO 1965)
2868 120t W 1913 Chicago & Alton #053>30053
Alton RR #X-3
Gulf Mobile & Ohio #66408 (conv to diesel)
Illinois Central Gulf #100406
MidSouth RR #1600 retired & sold to ?
Stored derelict on MSRC Vicksburg MS 1996 (here 09-21)
5102 150t W 1927 Mobile & Ohio #?
Gulf Mobile & Ohio #66405 (to diesel)
Illinois Central Gulf #100411 (here 06-13-80)

Bucyrus
186 05-18-12 75t SW New Orleans Mobile & Chicago RR #A1228
Mobile & Ohio # ?
Gulf Mobile & Ohio #66402 retired & scrap
41989 01-24-47 250t SW Alton RR #X-50
Gulf Mobile & Ohio #66409 1948 Illinois Central Gulf #100416 (conv to diesel)
(Reportedly given #X-112 then repainted within weeks to #100416.)
retired & scrap (off roster by January 1997)

Hi

Thankyou PMC and JohnT for the great info.

Is there anything online such as log books etc giving location and jobs done etc.

Thanks

Charles
New Zealand

1 in 1M chance I would say, so much paperwork was left behind in the 1980s, mountains of it, that I doubt anyone saved anything like that. I have some sort of lost logbook from an AT&SF piece of M/W equipment (a Burro crane maybe) from 1977, when a Santa Fe track gang was based in my little town for a few months, but only because I was 11 and grabbbed up anything that said "Santa Fe" on it. And I would bet that I haven't looked at the pages in 40 years.