List of Alabama railroads
The following railroads have operated in the State of Alabama.
Class I Railroads[]
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Canadian National Railway (CN) through its subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including its subsidiaries Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS) and Central of Georgia Railroad (CG)
Regional Railroads[]
Shortline and Terminal Railroads[]
- Alabama Railroad (ALAB)
- Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (ATN)
- Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS)
- Alabama Warrior Railway (ABWR)
- Autauga Northern Railroad (AUT)
- Bay Line Railroad (BAYL)
- Birmingham Terminal Railway (BHRR)
- CG Railway (CGR)
- Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad (CCH)
- Conecuh Valley Railroad (COEH)
- Eastern Alabama Railway (EARY)
- Georgia Southwestern Railroad (GSWR)
- Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority (HMCR)
- Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR)
- Meridian and Bigbee Railroad (MNBR)
- Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI)
- Sequatchie Valley Railroad (SQVR)
- Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR)
- Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks (TASD)
- Three Notch Railroad (TNHR)
- Wiregrass Central Railroad (WGCR)
Commuter Railroads[]
- Amtrak (AMTK): The Crescent
Heritage and Scenic Railroads[]
- North Alabama Railroad Museum (Mercury and Chase Railroad)
- Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (Calera and Shelby Railroad)
Industrial Rail Operations[]
- Rapid Switching Services (switching at Kerr-McGee at Mobile)
- Southern Electric Railroad (Southern Company plants)
Defunct railroads[]
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Name | Mark | System[nb 1] | From | To | Successor | Notes |
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Abbeville–Grimes Railway | AG | 1989 | 1994 | A&G Railroad | ||
Abbeville Southern Railway | ACL | 1892 | 1901 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
A&G Railroad | AG | 1994 | 1996 | Bay Line Railroad | ||
1906 | 1961 | N/A | Commemorative website: http://www.alabamacentralrailroad.com/home/]]) | |||
Alabama Central Railroad | SOU | 1871 | 1881 | East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad | ||
1903 | 1939 | N/A | ||||
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad | SOU | 1868 | 1877 | Alabama Great Southern Railroad | ||
Alabama and Florida Railroad | L&N | 1850 | 1868 | Pensacola and Louisville Railroad | ||
Alabama and Florida Railroad | L&N | 1898 | 1900 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
Alabama and Florida Railroad | 1936 | 1941 | N/A | |||
Alabama and Florida Railroad | AFLR | 1986 | 1992 | Alabama and Florida Railway | ||
Alabama and Florida Railway | AF | 1992 | 2011 | N/A | ||
Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad | 1917 | 1936 | Alabama and Florida Railroad | |||
Alabama, Florida and Southern Railroad | 1910 | 1917 | Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad | |||
Alabama Great Southern Railroad | AGS | SOU | 1877 | Still exists as an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway | ||
AIRI | 1984 | 1985 | Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority | |||
Alabama Midland Railway | ACL | 1887 | 1901 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
L&N | 1890 | 1903 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
A&M | 1902 | 1922 | ||||
Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad | SOU | 1850 | 1864 | Selma and Meridian Railroad | ||
ABN | 1904 | 1925 | ||||
1912 | 1934 | N/A | ||||
1985 | 1985 | N/A | Never operated (acquired property of ) | |||
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad | SLSF | 1918 | 1971 | St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | ||
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad | SLSF | 1906 | 1913 | Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway | ||
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway | SLSF | 1913 | 1918 | Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad | ||
Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad | SOU | 1848 | 1866 | Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad | ||
Alabama Terminal and Improvement Company | ACL | 1889 | 1889 | Alabama Midland Railway | ||
ACL | 1907 | 1916 | Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway | |||
1898 | N/A | |||||
SOU | 1869 | 1870 | ||||
IC | 1905 | 1913 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad | SAL | 1884 | 1888 | Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway | ||
Andalusia and Conecuh Railroad | ACRC | 1983 | Still exists as a lessor of the Three Notch Railroad | |||
1919 | 1925 | N/A | ||||
Anniston and Atlantic Railroad | L&N | 1883 | 1890 | |||
L&N | 1887 | 1890 | ||||
L&N | 1888 | 1890 | ||||
Ashland Railway | 1925 | 1940 | N/A | |||
Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway | SAL | 1903 | 1909 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | ||
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad | ACL | 1905 | 1916 | Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway | ||
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway | ACL | 1916 | 1927 | Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad | ||
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad | ACL | 1927 | 1946 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railway | A&SA, ASAB | 1906 | 1993 | Bay Line Railroad | ||
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ACL | ACL | 1902 | 1967 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | |
L&N | 1904 | 1921 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
ACL | 1889 | 1943 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |||
SAL | 1902 | 1903 | ||||
1890 | 1919 | N/A | ||||
SLSF | 1899 | 1968 | St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | |||
Birmingham Mineral Railroad | L&N | 1884 | 1904 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
1913 | 1931 | N/A | ||||
L&N | 1886 | 1902 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
1910 | 1913 | |||||
SOU | 1889 | 1895 | ||||
B&SE | 1911 | 1965 | N/A | |||
SOU | 1884 | 1885 | ||||
Birmingham Southern Railroad | BS | 1899 | 2012 | Birmingham Terminal Railway | ||
Birmingham Terminal Company | BTC | CG/ IC/ SAL/ SLSF/ SOU | ||||
L&N | 1915 | 1915 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
SOU | 1889 | 1889 | East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway | |||
Burlington Northern Inc. | BN | 1980 | 1981 | Burlington Northern Railroad | ||
Burlington Northern Railroad | BN | 1981 | 1996 | Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway | ||
Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Railroad | SOU | 1860 | 1868 | |||
IC | 1898 | 1913 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
Carrollton Short Line Railway | SLSF | 1897 | 1906 | Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad | ||
Central of Georgia Railway | CG | CG | 1895 | 1971 | Central of Georgia Railroad | |
Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroad | CHAT | 2003 | 2006 | Chattahoochee Bay Railroad | ||
Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroad | CG | 1899 | 1948 | Central of Georgia Railway | ||
Chattahoochee Valley Railroad | 1895 | 1900 | Chattahoochee Valley Railway | |||
Chattahoochee Valley Railway | CHV | 1900 | 1992 | N/A | ||
Chattanooga Southern Railroad | SOU | 1896 | 1911 | Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad | ||
Chattanooga Southern Railway | SOU | 1890 | 1895 | Chattanooga Southern Railroad | ||
CHNY | 1989 | 1996 | N/A | |||
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | IC | 1913 | 1951 | Illinois Central Railroad | ||
SOU | 1881 | 1890 | East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway | |||
SOU | 1871 | 1881 | Georgia Pacific Railway | |||
Columbus and Western Railway | CG | 1880 | 1888 | Savannah and Western Railroad | ||
L&N | 1887 | 1893 | ||||
1916 | N/A | |||||
CG | 1880 | 1888 | Savannah and Western Railroad | |||
CG | 1868 | 1880 | ||||
CG | 1880 | 1880 | ||||
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad | SOU | 1881 | 1886 | East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway | ||
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway | SOU | 1886 | 1894 | Southern Railway | ||
SAL | 1894 | 1903 | Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway | |||
East and West Railroad of Alabama | SAL | 1882 | 1893 | |||
ACL | 1901 | 1906 | Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad | |||
SOU | 1870 | 1882 | Georgia Pacific Railway | |||
SOU | 1900 | 1926 | Southern Railway, | |||
CG | 1887 | 1888 | Savannah and Western Railroad | |||
CG | 1883 | 1888 | Savannah and Western Railroad | |||
SOU | 1832 | 1850 | Memphis and Charleston Railroad | |||
L&N | 1888 | 1897 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
1911 | 1919 | |||||
SOU | 1876 | 1904 | Southern Railway | |||
SOU | 1910 | 1911 | Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad | |||
GM&O | 1852 | 1854 | ||||
Georgia and Alabama Railroad | GAAB | 1989 | 1995 | Georgia Southwestern Railroad | ||
Georgia and Alabama Railway | SAL | 1895 | 1902 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | ||
SOU | 1876 | 1882 | Georgia Pacific Railway | |||
Georgia Pacific Railway | SOU | 1882 | 1894 | Southern Railway | ||
Georgia Western Railroad | SOU | 1860 | 1877 | |||
CG | 1845 | 1854 | Mobile and Girard Railroad | |||
CG | 1886 | 1887 | Columbus and Western Railway | |||
DWR | SLSF | 1911 | 1922 | |||
Gulf and Mississippi Railroad | GMSR | 1985 | 1988 | |||
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad | GM&N | GM&O | 1915 | 1940 | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad | |
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad | GM&O, GMO | GM&O | 1940 | 1972 | Illinois Central Gulf Railroad | |
1916 | 1926 | N/A | ||||
GM&O/ SOU | ||||||
Hartford and Slocomb Railroad | HS | 1953 | 1992 | H&S Railroad | ||
H&S Railroad | HS | 1992 | 2006 | Chattahoochee Bay Railroad | ||
L&N | 1887 | 1887 | Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway | |||
Illinois Central Railroad | IC | IC | 1899 | 1972 | Illinois Central Gulf Railroad | |
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad | ICG | 1972 | 1988 | Illinois Central Railroad | ||
L&N | 1881 | 1887 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
1948 | 1966 | Birmingham Southern Railroad | ||||
Jefferson Warrior Railroad | 1985 | 2009 | Alabama Warrior Railway | |||
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad | SLSF | 1887 | 1928 | St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | ||
Kansas City Southern Railway | KCS | 1994 | 2005 | Alabama Southern Railroad | ||
L&N | 1901 | 1957 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
Louisville and Nashville Railroad | L&N, LN | L&N | 1871 | 1983 | Seaboard System Railroad | |
L&N | 1910 | 1965 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
SOU | 1854 | 1858 | ||||
SOU | 1850 | 1854 | ||||
SOU | 1858 | 1860 | Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Railroad | |||
1985 | Jefferson Warrior Railroad | private | ||||
Meridian and Bigbee Railroad | MBRR, MB | 1952 | 1997 | M&B Railroad | ||
1917 | 1952 | Meridian and Bigbee Railroad | ||||
SLSF | 1886 | 1887 | Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad | |||
Memphis and Charleston Railroad | SOU | 1850 | 1898 | Southern Railway | ||
L&N | 1893 | 1897 | Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway | |||
1922 | 1950 | N/A | ||||
Mississippi Central Railroad | MSC | IC | 1921 | 1924 | N/A | Trackage rights over the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad to Mobile |
GM&O | 1854 | 1870 | Mobile and Ohio Railroad | |||
SOU | 1866 | 1886 | ||||
GM&O | 1898 | 1903 | Mobile and Ohio Railroad | |||
SOU | 1895 | Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway | ||||
SOU | 1887 | 1895 | ||||
Mobile and Girard Railroad | CG | 1854 | 1895 | Central of Georgia Railway | ||
Mobile and Great Northern Railroad | L&N | 1856 | 1868 | |||
MG | 1925 | N/A | ||||
GM&O | 1887 | 1888 | ||||
GM&O | 1888 | 1909 | ||||
L&N | 1868 | 1874 | ||||
L&N | 1874 | 1900 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
GM&O | 1870 | 1891 | ||||
Mobile and Ohio Railroad | GM&O | 1848 | 1940 | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad | ||
SLSF | 1910 | 1913 | Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway | |||
SOU | 1885 | 1887 | ||||
GM&O | 1906 | 1907 | Mobile and Ohio Railroad | |||
Montgomery Railroad | ACL/ L&N | 1834 | 1842 | Montgomery and West Point Railroad | ||
CG | 1860 | 1879 | ||||
CG | 1879 | 1895 | Central of Georgia Railway | |||
ACL | 1886 | 1888 | ||||
L&N | 1890 | 1900 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1895 | 1896 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
ACL | 1880 | 1886 | ||||
Montgomery and West Point Railroad | ACL/ L&N | 1843 | 1870 | Western Railroad of Alabama | ||
MSBP | SLSF | 1924 | 1928 | St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | ||
MSBP | SLSF | 1922 | 1924 | |||
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad | L&N | 1850 | 1873 | Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway | ||
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway | N&C, NC | L&N | 1873 | 1957 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |
L&N | 1866 | 1990 | CSX Transportation | |||
L&N | 1887 | 1900 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1890 | 1892 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1866 | 1871 | ||||
GM&O | 1909 | 1915 | Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad | |||
L&N | 1871 | 1881 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1866 | 1868 | ||||
L&N | 1868 | 1886 | ||||
L&N | 1900 | 1910 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
North East and South West Alabama Railroad | SOU | 1853 | 1868 | Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad | ||
SOU | 1895 | 1939 | Southern Railway | |||
SOU | 1854 | 1868 | ||||
ACL | 1888 | 1889 | Alabama Terminal and Improvement Company | |||
L&N | 1900 | 1905 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
Opelika and Talladega Railroad | CG | 1854 | 1861 | Opelika and Tuscumbia Railroad | ||
Opelika and Tuscumbia Railroad | CG | 1861 | 1866 | Savannah and Memphis Railroad | ||
1907 | 1917 | |||||
L&N | 1880 | 1880 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
Pine Belt Southern Railroad | PBRR | 1995 | 2001 | N/A | ||
Plant System | ACL | 1894 | 1902 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Richmond and Danville Railroad | SOU | 1889 | 1894 | Southern Railway | ||
SOU | 1882 | 1889 | East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway | |||
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad | SLSF | 1903 | 1916 | St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | ||
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | SLSF | SLSF | 1916 | 1980 | Burlington Northern Inc. | |
Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway | SAL | 1888 | 1895 | Georgia and Alabama Railway | ||
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ACL | 1901 | 1902 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Savannah and Memphis Railroad | CG | 1866 | 1880 | Columbus and Western Railway | ||
Savannah and Western Railroad | CG | 1885 | 1895 | Central of Georgia Railway | ||
Seaboard Air Line Railroad | SAL | SAL | 1946 | 1967 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | |
Seaboard Air Line Railway | SAL | 1900 | 1945 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | ||
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | SCL | 1967 | 1983 | Seaboard System Railroad | ||
Seaboard System Railroad | SBD | 1983 | 1986 | CSX Transportation | ||
L&N | 1858 | 1879 | ||||
SOU | 1878 | 1881 | ||||
SOU | 1868 | 1878 | ||||
Selma and Meridian Railroad | SOU | 1864 | 1871 | Alabama Central Railroad | ||
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad | SOU | 1866 | 1880 | East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad | ||
SOU | 1885 | 1887 | ||||
SOU | 1887 | 1889 | ||||
L&N | 1895 | 1896 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1886 | 1895 | ||||
L&N | 1854 | 1914 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
Southern Railway | SOU | SOU | 1894 | 1990 | Norfolk Southern Railway | |
Southern Alabama Railroad | SUAB | 1988 | 2001 | Conecuh Valley Railroad | ||
Southern Alabama Railroad | L&N | 1899 | 1899 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
SR | 1988 | 1994 | Kansas City Southern Railway | |||
CG | 1859 | Owned by Central of Georgia Railway; still exists as a lessor of Norfolk Southern Railway operating subsidiary Central of Georgia Railroad | ||||
Southwestern Alabama Railway | ACL | 1896 | 1901 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
SC | 1904 | 1983 | (never operated) | |||
1883 | 1890 | |||||
Tallassee and Montgomery Railway | 1895 | 1912 | ||||
L&N | 1887 | 1887 | ||||
L&N | 1853 | 1866 | ||||
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad | SOU | 1911 | 1922 | Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway | ||
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway | TA&G, TAG | SOU | 1922 | Still exists as an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway | ||
L&N | 1844 | 1891 | Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway | |||
Tennessee Valley Railroad | SOU | 1848 | 1851 | Memphis and Charleston Railroad | ||
SLSF | 1904 | 1913 | Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway | |||
SAL | 1891 | 1900 | ||||
L&N | 1910 | 1915 | ||||
Tuscumbia Railway | SOU | 1830 | 1850 | Memphis and Charleston Railroad | ||
Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad | SOU | 1832 | 1847 | Tennessee Valley Railroad | ||
Tuskegee Railroad | TK | 1860 | 1963 | N/A | ||
TSNR | 1989 | 1992 | CSX Transportation | |||
1901 | 1911 | |||||
CG | 1867 | 1879 | ||||
1926 | 1948 | |||||
1901 | 1938 | Owned by Mobile and Ohio Railroad | ||||
1910 | 1927 | N/A | ||||
Western Railroad of Alabama | ACL/ L&N | 1860 | 1883 | Western Railway of Alabama | ||
Western Railway of Alabama | WA | ACL/ L&N | 1883 | 2002 | CSX Transportation | |
Wills Valley Railroad | SOU | 1852 | 1868 | Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad | ||
SOU | 1850 | 1875 | Memphis and Charleston Railroad | |||
L&N/ SOU | 1906 | Still exists; owned by CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway but operated by the latter | ||||
Woodward Iron Company | private | |||||
L&N | 1887 | 1906 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
- Electric railways
Notes[]
- ^ This is one or more of the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any.
References[]
- "Alabama Rail Directory" (PDF). Alabama Department of Transportation. December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- "Alabama Rail Directory" (PDF). Alabama Department of Transportation. June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- Association of American Railroads (2003), "Freight Railroads Operating in Alabama" (PDF). (287 KB). Retrieved August 16, 2005
- 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)
- Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9.
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