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North Alabama Railroad: L&N: 1900 1910 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: North East and South West Alabama Railroad: SOU: 1853 1868 Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad: Northern Alabama Railway: SOU: 1895 1939 Southern Railway: Northwestern Railroad of Alabama: SOU: 1854 1868 Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad: Northwestern and Florida Railroad ...
The railroad of the Bay Minette and Fort Morgan Railroad Company, hereinafter called the Bay Minette and Fort Morgan, likewise leased to and operated by the Louisville and Nashville, is a single-track, standard-gage line, extending southerly from Bay Minette to Foley, Ala., a distance of 36.509 miles.
In 1863 the company was leased by the Reading Railroad for 93 years. It formally merged with the Reading in 1952. *1830: The Tuscumbia Railway was chartered on January 16, 1830, and proceeded to build a 2.1-mile (3.4 km) railroad from downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama to the docks on the Tennessee River west of Sheffield.
The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860 before the war. In the heavily settled Midwestern Corn Belt , over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles (8 km) of a railway, facilitating the shipment of grain, hogs, and cattle to national and international markets.
Location of Morgan County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Morgan County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Fort Morgan, also known as Fort Bowyer, is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is west of Gulf Shores on Mobile Point . Mobile Point extends from Gulf Shores to the west, towards historic Fort Morgan at the tip of the peninsula.
Incorporated on January 13, 1832, the Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad was a railroad in Alabama, the United States.. The Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad ran from Decatur in Morgan County through the northern half of Lawrence County through Courtland, then into Colbert County and ended in Tuscumbia, Alabama where it connected to the Tuscumbia Railway Company.
A few years later, in 1922, the line's name was changed to the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (reporting mark TAG) and was also known as the TAG Route. The TAG ran from Chattanooga, Tennessee, through northwest Georgia, and into Gadsden, Alabama. The trackage began at Milepost 1 in Alton Park (Chattanooga) and continued southwest to the ...