The Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway is a Class II railroad in the United States, owned by Genesee & Wyoming. It operates of track

In 1910, the Gulf Ports Terminal Railway was acquired by Southern States Lumber, which operated of track to move lumber from forests in Baldwin County, Alabama, to its large mill at Muscogee, and on to the port of Pensacola for export. The combined system had a total length of around .

thumb|AGRR 4058, an EMD SD40-2 locomotive, operating in 2008.

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!Number

!Type

!Built

!Notes

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|2273

|EMD SD40

|1973-19

|Is variant SD40M-2, rebuilt by Morrison Knudsen in 1993.

|-

|3060-3062

|EMD GP40

|1967–1971

|

|-

|3213, 3309, 3311, 3354–3362, 3373–3375, 3395, 3411–3412, 4223, 4226

|EMD SD40-2

|1969

|4223 and 4226 are leased from Wells Fargo Rail.

|-

|3814, 3858

|EMD GP38

|1969–1970

|

|}

Route

The AGR operates on a total of 339 miles of owned and leased trackage in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Its also runs via trackage rights over BNSF Railway between Columbus and Amory, MS and Norfolk Southern Railway between Kimbrough and Mobile, AL. The AGR is separated into the following four subdivisions.

The following route maps at right were created using actual track charts, timetables and maps with satellite imagery.

AGR has many interchanges. Canadian National, CG Railway, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Terminal Railway all have interchanges at Mobile, Alabama. Columbus and Greenville Railway, Golden Triangle Railroad, CPKC, and Luxapalila Valley Railroad all have an interchange at Columbus, Mississippi. BNSF has one at Amory, Mississippi, Meridian & Bigbee Railroad at Linden, Alabama, as well as CSX at Cantonment, Florida. Norfolk Southern also has more interchanges at Kimbrough, Alabama, Demopolis, Alabama, and Boligee, Alabama.

See also

  • St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
  • List of United States railroads
  • List of Florida railroads
  • List of Mississippi railroads

References

  • Official Website
  • "Pensacola & Mobile" at Confederate Railroads
  • "Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railway" at Taplines: Short Line and Industrial Railroading in the South; includes pictures and map