Mobile, AL - Engine House - One Unit Stall - Blakely Island - Mobile Bay (AT&N)

While neither a roundhouse nor turntable, this may have been the Frisco's smallest engine house as of 1979, when it was shot.

GE 45-ton no. 11 sits inside, at Blakely Island, AL.

Rick Morgan

 

I remember cleaning up the area in the 1980s when I was the environmental engineer.

There was arguments about whether the oil stained soil came from fueling or from nearby private storage tanks.

By that time the shed was gone.

Neal Calton

 

As you're aware the ferry slip is only a couple of tracks between two tank farms. (still visible on Google Earth, BTW)

There was a small ditch just to the north with a simple wooden beam "footbridge", and that's being liberal, over it and I recall looking down in it and noting it wasn't something you'd want to fall into because of the oil and gunk that lined it.

I suspect the engine shed came down about the time the EMD SW1 arrived. I assume it was too big for this building.

Rick Morgan

 

Looking for more information and photos for modeling the Blakely Island switch job in the late 1960s or 1970s era.

The shot of the engine house is really neat. Hope to learn more about the industries and the car slip if I understand right.

Also looking for modeling shots of the area.

Kerry