See color film footage of Mobile & Gulf No. 97 at work from the Sunday River Productions program Steaming Through the Deep South.
Mobile & Gulf steam
By Angela Cotey | May 11, 2018
| Last updated on September 20, 2022
Thanks, that was a lovely old lady, on a lovely old railway, wouldn’t it be nice to have it all back again. Dreamer.
I enjoyed the video, especially since I rode the road twice in the late sixties. Sad to say the weeds and other growth have completely taken the roadbed, since the road was abandoned more than thirty years ago.
Some tired ol’ stock here, even for its time. Someone oughtta run a weed burner along the track. This is great documentary footage both nostalgically and for the detail of operation which it shows.
Not exactly glamorous, but a great view of a then hard working loco doing its job. Hard for most of us to imagine what it was like to operate a very local loco like that picking up a couple loads, running them through grass covered tracks, feeding the fire by hand. Hard working crew, too!