List of Alabama railroads

The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Common freight carriers

*Alabama Railroad (ALAB)
*Alabama and Florida Railway (AF)
*Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR)
*Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS)
*Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (ATN)
*Bay Line Railroad (BAYL)
*Birmingham Southern Railroad (BS)
*BNSF Railway (BNSF)
*Canadian National Railway (CN)
*CG Railway (CGR)
*Chattahoochee Bay Railroad (CHAT)
*Columbus and Greenville Railway (CAGY)
*Conecuh Valley Railroad (COEH)
*CSX Transportation (CSXT)
*Eastern Alabama Railway (EARY)
*Georgia Southwestern Railroad (GSWR)
*Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority (HMCR)
*Jefferson Warrior Railroad (JEFW)
*Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS)
*Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR)
*Meridian and Bigbee Railroad (MNBR)
*Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
*Redmont Railway (RRCI)
*Sequatchie Valley Railroad (SQVR)
*Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR)
*Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks (TASD)
*Three Notch Railroad (TNHR)
*Wiregrass Central Railroad (WGCR)

Private freight carriers

*Fairfield Southern (switching at U.S. Steel's Fairfield Works at Fairfield)
*Rapid Switching Services (switching at Kerr-McGee at Mobile)
*Respondek Railroad (switching at GE Plastics at Burkville)
*Southern Electric Railroad (Southern Company plants)

Passenger carriers

*Amtrak (AMTK): "Crescent"
*North Alabama Railroad Museum (Mercury and Chase Railroad)
*Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (Calera and Shelby Railroad)

Defunct railroads

* Alabama and Northwestern Railroad
* Alabama Central Railroad (ACR) 1906-1961 [http://www.alabamacentralrailroad.com/last.html]
* Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad (ASAB)
* Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad (ABC)
**Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
* Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
* Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad
* Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS) Southern Railway subsidiary
* Ashland Railway (ASRY)
* Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad "bought by SLSF in 1948, merged SLSF 1971"
** Carrollton Short Line Railway 1897-1906
* Birmingham Southern Railroad (BS)
* Central of Georgia Railroad (CG)
* Chattahoochee Valley Railroad (CHV)
* Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GMO)
* Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
* Louisville and Nashville Railroad (LN)
* Manistee and Repton Railroad
* MidSouth Rail (MSRC)
* Mississippi and Alabama Railroad
* Meridian and Bigbee Railroad (MB)
* Mobile and Gulf Railroad (MG)
* Northern Alabama Railroad
* Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad
* Sumter and Choctaw Railroad (SC)
* Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL)
* St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (SLSF)
* Southern Railway (SOU) to NS in 1982
**Northern Alabama Railway
* Western Railway of Alabama

* A&G Railroad (AGRD) 1994 - 1996; Abbeville - Dothan, AL Later BAYL
** Abbeville Grimes Railway (CHNY) 1989 - 1993.
* Alabama and Florida Railroad (AFLR) 1992; Renamed Alabama and Florida Railway (AF)
* Alabama Industrial Railroad 1984 - 1985; Sold to Huntsville and Madison County Railroad
* Alabama Mineral Railroad Part of L&N
* Alabama Southern Railroad (1985) 1985; York - Lilita, AL (never operated)
* Anniston and Atlantic Railroad 1883-1889; Sold to L&N; Sylacauga - Talladega, AL
* Atlanta and St Andrews Bay Railway Sold to Bay Line in 1994
* Andalusia and Conecuh Railroad 1983 - 1987; Andalusia - Gantt, AL
*Birmingham, Selma and Mobile Railroad Brent - Jericho, AL
* Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroad
* Chatahoochee Valley Railroad 1992; West Point, GA - McGinty, AL
* Cheney Railroad (CHNY) 1989 - Before 2005; Greens - Carnes, AL
* East and West Railroad of Alabama
* H&S Railroad (HS, HSRZ, LNAZ, SHSZ) 1992 - Before 2005
* Hartford and Slocomb Railroad 1992; Sold to H&S Railroad; Dothan - Hartford, AL
* Manistee and Repton Railroad abt. 1905, Monroeville - Manistee, AL
* Memphis and Charleston Railroad 1857 - 1894
* Mobile and Girard Railroad abt. 1870 - 1880s (later Central of Georgia)
* Montgomery and West Point Railroad 1844 - 1870 [http://oldrailhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=181&Itemid=212 (map)]
* Montgomery Railroad 1834 - 1842 [http://oldrailhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=349&Itemid=387 (map)]
* Montgomery Southern Railway
* Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
* Pensacola and Selma Railroad 1881, Flomaton - Repton, AL (sold to L&N)
* Pine Belt Southern Railroad (PBRR) 1995 - Before 2005 Columbus, GA - Troy, AL
* Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railroad
*Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
**Alabama Midland Railway
***Abbeville Southern Railway today part of BAYL
* Southern Alabama Railroad (SUAB) 1988 - Before 2005 Troy - Goshen, AL
* Southern Railway (SOU)
* Sumter and Choctaw Railway Disc 1983; Lilita - Bellamy, AL
* St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (SLSF)
* Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad
* Tallassee & Montgomery Railway 1896; Milstead, AL to Tallassee, AL
* Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Merged into Southern Ry in 1971; Ewing - Gadsden, AL
* Tombigbee and Northern Railway
* Tuscumbia Railway Company 1830-1832 [http://oldrailhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=355 (map)]
* Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad 1832 - 1850 [http://oldrailhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=356 (map)]
* Tuskegee Railroad
* Tyson Railroad (TSNR) 1989 - Before 2005 Ivalee, AL

References

* Association of American Railroads (2003), [http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRState_AL.pdf?states=RRState_AL.pdf Freight Railroads Operating in Alabama] (PDF). Retrieved August 16 2005.
* [http://www.aslrra.org/ American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association]
* [http://www.watcocompanies.com/railroads.htm Watco Companies]
* [http://www.tstarinc.com/operations-target.html Transtar]
* [http://www.pioneer-railcorp.com/ Pioneer Railcorp]
* [http://www.railamerica.com/about.htm RailAmerica]

Books

* Worker's of the Writer's Program of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Alabama. (1941) "Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South". American Guide Series. (New York: R. R. Smith)
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