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TRRA Issue #84 – Gulf Coast Rebel: $48.00
The TRRA has a well-established reputation for the highquality of their annual publications; their books are well researched andfilled with photos, drawings, pertinent advertising, menus and so forth. Thelatest issue covers the Rock Island’s GulfCoast Rebel service direct from the St. Louis metropolitan area—the Rebels did not actually begin at St.Louis Union Station until later—to Mobile, AL, where they arrived in the middle of themorning the next day. The route of these Rebels began instead at the East St.Louis Relay Station across the Mississippi River in Illinois. From there,service proceeded south through southern Illinois to Cairo where they crossedthe Ohio into Kentucky and proceeded through Tennessee and Mississippi toMobile. These trains originally ran over the old Mobile & Ohio (as their Gulf Coast Special which was powered by steam locomotives into 1940) which already had a freight station inEast St. Louis. With the M&O in financial straits, having been cut from theSouthern’s auspices in 1938, the successful Gulf, Mobile & Northernabsorbed the M&O into itself in September 1940 as the newly-renamed Gulf,Mobile & Ohio. This issue covers the history of the Gulf Coast Rebel, predecessors on the GM&N, the Little Rebels, the Orange State, the route, consists, motive power, paint schemes, accommodations,dining service, stations, business cars and more. This is a 206-page softcoverwith b&w and color imagery. Gloss paper. Shrinkwrapped. Pocket glued to inside rear coverwith a sample reproduction dinner menu from the Gulf Coast Rebel. Retail is $50.00. - Depot Square Publishing has been in the railroad book business since 1994. We publish our own books, produce books for other publishers, and sell other railroad publishers' titles.
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