On this day, I would drive Bob and Elizabeth on a tour that would include Elizabeth's first visits to Alabama and Mississippi on the way to the Casey Jones Museum in Jackson, Tennessee. We took Interstate 40 to Interstate 65 down to Tennessee Highway 96, where we stopped for breakfast at McDonald's then drove into Franklin and our first stop.
The Franklin Louisville and Nashville combination station and freight house built circa 1858. We then drove to Columbia.
The Columbia Louisville and Nashville station built in 1904.
Patriot Rail's Tennessee Southern GP9 1974, nee Santa Fe 738, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1957. We next drove to Mount Pleasant.
Patriot Rail's Tennessee Southern GP9 1955, nee Santa Fe 715, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1956. We made our way to Florence with Bob and Elizabeth entering Alabama, a new state for her.
The Louisville and Nashville station in Florence, now the Sweetwater Depot event centre. We drove west and crossed the border into Mississippi and Elizabeth's third new state in the last two days, arriving at Corinth.
Corinth Union Station, built in 1919 and served by the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway. It is now the home of the Crossroads Museum.
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio caboose 2994, built by International Car Company in 1970.
Looking down the former GM&O mainline to the crossing.
Kansas City Southern GP40-3 2963, nee St. Louis-San Francisco 764, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1979.
Corinth Union Station from near the diamond.
The railroad crossing.
One of the Big Gun cannons from the Civil War. We drove back into Tennessee to Selmer, our next stop.
The Selmer Gulf, Mobile and Ohio station built in 1861.
A mural of rock and roll here, then proceeded to Jackson, Tennessee.
A railway history mural by Les MacDiarmid opposite the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&StL) station.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis station built in 1907.
Chesapeake and Ohio caboose 3255 built by International Car in 1969, currently Chessie System 903225.
Interior of caboose 3255.
Florida East Coast dining car "Fort Matanzas" built by Budd Company in 1947. Later it went to Seaboard Air Line 6117, then Amtrak 8021 before being donated to the museum.
The interior of the "Fort Matanzas".
Southern Railway steel bay-window caboose X421, built by Gantt Manufacturing in 1969.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad handcar.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad speeder.
NC&StL baggage carts.
A trainorder semaphore signal.
A mainline tri-coloured signal.
Road crossing signal. We went into the depot where I gave out my cards and met the main curator.
A Howard Fogg painting of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio.
The G&MO station on the Jackson Model Railroad Club's layout inside this unique museum. Unfortunately, in May 2020, the museum closed and during a review of this travelogue in May 2026, it was found that the links to City of Jackson's pages about the depot no longer work.
We then departed for the Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
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