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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 .
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: Winchester and Alabama Railroad: SOU: 1850 1875 Memphis and Charleston Railroad: Woodstock and Blocton Railway: L&N/ SOU: 1906
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.
Major station stops, southwest from Atlanta's Terminal Station were in Georgia: Newman, LaGrange, West Point, in Alabama: Opelika, Auburn, Chehaw and Montgomery. Coach-only trains made additional station stops. [4] Passenger trains continued west beyond Montgomery to Mobile and New Orleans on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. [5]
With sister locomotive No. 190 built for the Western Railway of Alabama (WRA), No. 290 ferried the Southern Railway's Crescent passenger train on the West Point Route between Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama until its retirement from revenue service in 1954.
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
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