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The Western Railway of Alabama (WRA) also seen as "WofA" [1] was created as the Western Railroad of Alabama by the owners of the Montgomery & West Point Railroad (M&WP) in 1860. It was built to further the M&WP's development West from Montgomery, Alabama to Selma, Alabama .
Columbus and Western Railway: CG: 1880 1888 Savannah and Western Railroad: Decatur, Chesapeake and New Orleans Railway: L&N: 1887 1893 Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway: DeKalb and Western Railroad: 1916 N/A East Alabama Railway: CG: 1880 1888 Savannah and Western Railroad: East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad: CG: 1868 1880 East Alabama and ...
The Montgomery and West Point Railroad (M&WP) was an early 19th-century railroad in Alabama and Georgia.It played an important role during the American Civil War as a supply and transportation route for the Confederate Army, and, as such, was the target of a large raid by Union cavalry in the summer of 1864, called Wilson's Raid.
In 1912 the Tallassee and Montgomery was purchased by the Union Springs and Northern Railway to become part of the Birmingham and Southeastern Railway system. [1] The Tallassee and Montgomery Railway through truss bridge over the Tallapoosa River near Milstead still stands and is easily visible from State Route 229 just north of I-85 exit 26. [2]
The station also served passenger trains of Atlantic Coast Line, Western Railway of Alabama, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, and Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The station had six tracks under a 600-foot-long (180 m) shed, with a coach yard on the south end of the station as well as a Railway Express Agency facility.
The community was named after the location where a gristmill once stood by the Tallapoosa River. [2] Milstead was located at the junction of the Tallassee and Montgomery Railway and the Western Railway of Alabama. [3] Fort Decatur, a fort built during the Creek War, was located near Milstead.
Until the 1960s, the route carried Southern Railway passenger trains, such as the Crescent and the Piedmont Limited on New York to New Orleans service. [3] By the latter 1960s, the Crescent was the only remaining passenger train. In 1970, the Crescent was rerouted on its present-day more northwestern route, through Birmingham.
The following railroads have been known as Western Railroad or Western Railway: Western Railroad Company, builders of a Heavener, Oklahoma to Waldron, Arkansas line now operated by the Arkansas Southern Railroad; Western Railroad (Texas) of New Braunfels; Western Railroad of Alabama; Western Railway of Alabama; Western Railway of Arizona