| Title: |
Mississippi Transportation Museum No. 7 |
| Description: |
Although lettered MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY, this Alco S2 was owned by the Mississippi Transportaion Museum and was being used in excursion service on the Columbia & Silver Creek (ex-ICG/IC/Gulf & Ship Island) out of Columbia. It is Alco serial number 75361, built in July 1947 as Tennessee Coal & Iron 550 for use around Birmingham. It was subsequently U.S. Steel 7 at Fairfield, Alabama; then U.S.S. Mobile River Terminal 7, and went to the Mississippi Transportation Museum in 1986. MTM sold off all of its equipment in mid-1990, and the locomotive ended up at Southeastern Railway Services in Magnolia, Mississippi. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1989 Upload Date: 8/11/2010 9:27:14 AM |
| Location: |
Columbia, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MTM 7(S2) |
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