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Alabama Southern Railroad. The Alabama Southern Railroad (reporting mark ABS) is a class III railroad that operates in the southern United States. The ABS is one of several short line railroads owned by Watco. The railroad operates an 85-mile (137 km) line leased from the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). It began operating in 2005.
4 ft 9 in ( 1,448 mm) in 1886. [1] Length. 1,084 miles (1,745 km) AGS locomotive from the August 1905 Railway and Locomotive Engineering magazine. The Alabama Great Southern Railroad ( reporting mark AGS) is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk ...
Kansas City Southern Railway: KCS 1994 2005 Alabama Southern Railroad: Long Branch Coal Railroad: L&N: 1901 1957 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Louisville and Nashville Railroad: L&N, LN L&N 1871 1983 Seaboard System Railroad: Manistee and Repton Railroad: L&N: 1910 1965 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Marion Railroad: SOU: 1854 1858 ...
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 ...
The Huntsville Depot located on the Norfolk Southern Railway line in downtown Huntsville is the oldest surviving railroad depot in Alabama and one of the oldest in the United States. Completed in 1860, the depot served as eastern division headquarters for the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. [3] It is listed on both the Alabama Register of ...
List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines. The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western, and the Southern Railway, it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999.
Valuation for property of The Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company, $468,270.90; for property of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company, $316,525.02; for property of the Alabama Great Southern, $79,971.24. The Alabama Great Southern charged to its income account rentals for the use of the foregoing facilities as follows—.
There were a number of facilities on the railway's Alabama Great Southern Railroad mainline near Downtown Birmingham and these facilities were small and couldn't keep up with the growing industrial traffic propagated by the booming steel and iron industry, and the Southern planned to build a large flagship Alabama facility to keep abreast of ...