Tacon

This image shows Tacon Station as it appeared in 1915.

Dauphin Street is just beyond the fruit shed, and the NOM&C mainline is to the right of the visible trackage. There should be four tracks at this location, with interchanges between the two railroads.

The photograph has the viewer standing between the second and third tracks, looking almost due West, with the tracks leading Northwest. The turn to the North, toward Crichton, is only a hundred yards or so farther ahead.

This is where the M&BS mainline crossed the MJ&KC/NOM&C mainline, and began a parallel run down to Government Street - present-day Airport Boulevard.

Compare the aerial photo at right with the blueprint segment below. Note the original 1915 location of the station on the opposite side of Dauphin Street. Also note the interchange tracks with the NOM&C railroad, shown as a lightly-drawn line just above the M&BS lines. The NOM&C is today the mainline for the Illinois Central railroad.

This aerial photograph shows the business that many old-time Mobilians remember as "Ruberoid", later a GAF subsidiary. The north-south road at the left side of the image is Florida Street, and the east-west road intersecting it at about mid-image is Emogene Street, and the one at the top of the image is Dauphin Street. Note the company houses lined up in a row on Emogene, across from the baseball field.

This map segment at right is taken from the ICC Route Map of 1915, and shows the layout of the two rail lines, as well as the many structures which belonged to the Mobile & Bay Shore operation.