Search results
Results from the Go Local Guru Content Network
Mississippi and Alabama Railroad: Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad: SOU: 1850 1864 Selma and Meridian Railroad: Alabama Northern Railway: ABN 1904 1925 Alabama and North Western Railroad: 1912 1934 N/A Alabama Railroad: ALAB 1991 2022 N/A Alabama Southern Railroad: 1985 1985 N/A Never operated (acquired property of Sumter and Choctaw ...
The Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway ( reporting mark AGR) is a Class II railroad [1] owned by Genesee & Wyoming. It operates 339 miles (546 km) of track [2] from the Pensacola, Florida export terminals, west of downtown, north to Columbus, Mississippi, with trackage rights along BNSF Railway to Amory, Mississippi.
1891 map of the "Queen and Crescent Route" of AGS. The AGS's oldest predecessor was the Wills Valley Railroad, chartered by the Alabama Legislature in February 1852 to extend from a point on the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad northeast to the Georgia state line.
The Alabama Southern Railroad ( reporting mark ABS) is a class III railroad that operates in the southern United States. The ABS is one of several short line railroads owned by Watco. The railroad operates an 85-mile (137 km) line leased from the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). It began operating in 2005. [1]
The Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad ( reporting mark ATN) was a short line railroad which operated in the state of Alabama. The company grew from an acquisition of an existing logging railroad in 1897, and merged with the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (the "Frisco") in 1971. [1] The company was also known as the "Port of Mobile Route."
The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (initialised HOD, reporting mark CSMX) is the official state railroad museum of Alabama.Dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and operation of historically significant railway equipment, the museum is located at 1919 Ninth Street, Calera, Alabama, on I-65 approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Birmingham.
640 miles (1,030 kilometres) The Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad was organized in 1926 to replace the bankrupt Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway. The AB&C was controlled by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which owned a majority of the stock. In 1944 it reported 763 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 33 million ...
The line that would become the East and West Railroad of Alabama actually began at the Georgia end, with the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, chartered in 1868 to build a 5 ft ( 1,524 mm) broad gauge route from Cartersville to Prior, near the Alabama state line. The entire 45-mile (72 km) route was graded and 14 miles (23 km) of track was ...