| 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. |