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The Birmingham Southern was later sold to the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, which in 1906 became a part of the United States Steel Corporation and remained a U.S.S. Corp. subsidiary until 1988. The railroad expanded its lines in the western industrial section of Jefferson County by 1910.
Constructed by the Pratt Coal and Coke Company— Birmingham to Pratt City, Ala., about 1877 6.420 Stockton Junction to Tipton, Ala., about 1880 4.291 Constructed by the Bessemer Iron and Steel Company, at West Bessemer, Ala., 1887 .628 Constructed by the Birmingham Mineral Railroad Company, at Bessemer, Ala., 1887 .355
Sheffield and Birmingham Railroad: Birmingham Southern Railroad: BS 1899 2012 Birmingham Terminal Railway: Birmingham Terminal Company: BTC CG/ IC/ SAL/ SLSF/ SOU: Birmingham and Tuscaloosa Railroad: L&N: 1915 1915 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Brierfield, Blockton and Birmingham Railway: SOU: 1889 1889 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia ...
Sent to Watco in 2012, name changed from Birmingham Southern Railroad to Birmingham Terminal Railway. Delray Connecting Railroad: National Steel Corporation: 2003 [3] Owned directly by US Steel until 2005 [4] Gary Railway: US Steel 2009 Created from unsold part of Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway: Fairfield Southern Company: US Steel 1988 [5]
TCI's largest industrial plant was located in Ensley, a company town founded in 1886 on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama, by company president Enoch Ensley. Ensley was served by the sizable Birmingham Southern Railroad, one of TCI's early acquisitions, and from 1899 contained four 200-ton blast furnaces. In 1906 two more furnaces were ...
Birmingham Terminal Railway (reporting mark BHRR) is a subsidiary of Watco, operator of several short-line railroad companies. The BHRR operates on 75.9 miles (122.1 km) of track providing switching services in the Birmingham, Alabama area. It began operating in 2012 after acquiring the assets of the Birmingham Southern Railroad.
Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal arts college in Alabama, will close at the end of May after running into financial difficulties and being unable to secure a financial lifeline from ...
The Southern Railway Building in Washington, D.C., formerly located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street NW in the early 1900s An 1895 system map A 1921 system map. The pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, Southern's earliest predecessor line and one of the first railroads in the United States, was chartered on December 19, 1827, and ran the nation's first regularly ...