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From: Lee B Singletary

[mailto:LBSingletary@...]

Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:39 PM
To: STMFC@...
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Railroad ID help, please,

GF&A Ry

This is the Gulf, Florida & Alabama in

Pensacola, Florida.

The giveaway is the The Lewis Bear Company.

They are a local

distributor in Pensacola. Still there in in

1997 before we

moved away. The GF&A wound up under St.

Louis-San Fransisco.

Lee Singletary
Former Pensacola resident

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:25:26 -0400 "Schuyler

Larrabee"

<schuyler.larrabee@...> writes:

Help please.

I just went to look at a house in my

neighborhood which is on the

market. Curious about that house, so took the

opportunity

to see what

was there.
Old house, only two families in it since 1885.

It's still furnished, and on the wall in a

study was a

panorama photo,

probably 10" high by 60" or more wide. It

shows a harbor

off to the

left, an urban scene mid-right, with a new

power plant at

the extreme

right. The harbor is full of sailing ships,

no steamers

that I could

find, though the room was not the best lit

I've seen (which has

probably been good for the photo over the

years).

It is annotated with GF&A features, "Marine

Terminal, Clssification

Yard, Passenger and Freight Station."

Several businesses have their names painted on

the facades,

which will

help:

Uneeda Biscuit (fairly common, I'd guess) West

Florida

Grocery Company

(probably locally
specific)
The Lewis Bear Company, Wholesale Groceries

(also locally specific,

maybe) W A Ray Hardware Company Gautensen &

Morrill, Riggers and

Sailmakers

This New England mind thought: "Gainesville,
(mumble) and Atlanta?" Well, don't laugh,

Floridians, I

already found

out that Gainesville's not on the coast, and

this place is.

So that's

not it. Unless the "A" is the coastal city,

or the "F" is.

I checked out my 1984 copy of Edson's

"Railroad Names" which lists

Georgia, Florida & Alabama, and Gulf, Florida

& Alabama, So

those are

possibilities. But what port would I be

looking at?

SGL



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