The following railroads have operated in the State of Alabama.
Class I Railroads
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Canadian National Railway (CN) through its subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including its subsidiaries Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS) and Central of Georgia Railroad (CG)
Regional Railroads
- Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR)
Shortline and Terminal Railroads
- Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (ATN)
- Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS)
- Alabama Warrior Railway (ABWR)
- Autauga Northern Railroad (AUT)
- Bay Line Railroad (BAYL)
- Birmingham Terminal Railway (BHRR)
- CG Railway (CGR)
- Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad (CCH)
- Conecuh Valley Railroad (COEH)
- Eastern Alabama Railway (EARY)
- Georgia Southwestern Railroad (GSWR)
- Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority (HMCR)
- Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR)
- Meridian and Bigbee Railroad (MNBR)
- Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI)
- Sequatchie Valley Railroad (SQVR)
- Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR)
- Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks (TASD)
- Three Notch Railroad (TNHR)
- Wiregrass Central Railroad (WGCR)
Passenger Railroads
- Amtrak (AMTK): The Crescent and Mardi Gras Service
Heritage and Scenic Railroads
- North Alabama Railroad Museum (Mercury and Chase Railroad)
- Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (Calera and Shelby Railroad)
Industrial Rail Operations
- Rapid Switching Services (switching at Kerr-McGee at Mobile)
- Southern Electric Railroad Company (SERC; Southern Company plants; trackage rights granted to Norfolk Southern)
Defunct railroads
<!--Did the Toinette and Western exist? Was the Lyerly Branch Railroad an actual company? Should the Clifton Iron Company and Shelby Iron Company be included? How about Southern States Lumber Company (to GF&A 1911?)? What about the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company? Twin Seam Mining Company? Enterprise Lumber Company? Companies on Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Birmingham Southern Railroad? Tombigbee Lumber Company?-->
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!Name
!Mark
!System
!From
!To
!Successor
!Notes
|-
|Abbeville–Grimes Railway
|AG
|
|1989
|1994
|A&G Railroad
|-
|Abbeville Southern Railway
|
|ACL
|1892
|1901
|Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|-
|A&G Railroad
|AG
|
|1994
|1996
|Bay Line Railroad
|-
|Alabama Central Railroad (1906)
|
|
|1906
|1961
|N/A
|Commemorative website: http://www.alabamacentralrailroad.com/home/]])
|-
|Alabama Central Railroad
|
|SOU
|1871
|1881
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
|-
|Alabama Central Railway
|
|
|1903
|1939
|N/A
|-
|Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
|
|SOU
|1868
|1877
|Alabama Great Southern Railroad
|-
|Alabama and Florida Railroad
|
|L&N
|1850
|1868
|Pensacola and Louisville Railroad
|-
|Alabama and Florida Railroad
|
|L&N
|1898
|1900
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Alabama and Florida Railroad
|
|
|1936
|1941
|N/A
|-
|Alabama and Florida Railroad
|AFLR
|
|1986
|1992
|Alabama and Florida Railway
|-
|Alabama and Florida Railway
|AF
|
|1992
|2011
|N/A
|-
|Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad
|
|
|1917
|1936
|Alabama and Florida Railroad
|-
|Alabama, Florida and Southern Railroad
|
|
|1910
|1917
|Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad
|-
|Alabama Great Southern Railroad
|AGS
|SOU
|1877
|
|
|Still exists as an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway
|-
|Alabama Industrial Railroad
|AIRI
|
|1984
|1985
|Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority
|-
|Alabama Midland Railway
|
|ACL
|1887
|1901
|Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|-
|Alabama Mineral Railroad
|
|L&N
|1890
|1903
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
|A&M
|
|1902
|1922
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad<!--this was the only successor in Alabama-->
|-
|Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad
|
|SOU
|1850
|1864
|Selma and Meridian Railroad
|-
|Alabama Northern Railway
|ABN
|
|1904
|1925
|
|-
|Alabama and North Western Railroad
|
|
|1912
|1934
|N/A
|-
|Alabama Railroad
|ALAB
|
|1991
|2022
|N/A
|
|-
|Alabama Southern Railroad
|
|
|1985
|1985
|N/A
|Never operated (acquired property of Sumter and Choctaw Railway)
|-
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1918
|1971
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|-
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1906
|1913
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
|-
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
|
|SLSF
|1913
|1918
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
|-
|Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad
|
|SOU
|1848
|1866
|Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
|-
|Alabama Terminal and Improvement Company
|
|ACL
|1889<!--??-->
|1889
|Alabama Midland Railway
|-
|Alabama Terminal Railroad
|
|ACL
|1907
|1916
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
|-
|Alabama and Tombigbee Railroad
|
|
|1898
|<!--no idea - probably between 1927 and 1932-->
|N/A
|-
|Alabama Transit Company
|
|SOU
|1869
|1870
|Elyton and Aberdeen Railroad
|-
|Alabama Western Railroad
|
|IC
|1905
|1913
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|-
|Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad
|
|SAL
|1884
|1888
|Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway
|-
|Andalusia and Conecuh Railroad
|ACRC
|
|1983
|
|
|Still exists as a lessor of the Three Notch Railroad
|-
|Andalusia, Florida and Gulf Railway
|
|
|1919
|1925
|N/A
|-
|Anniston and Atlantic Railroad
|
|L&N
|1883
|1890
|Alabama Mineral Railroad
|-
|Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad
|
|L&N
|1887
|1890
|Alabama Mineral Railroad
|-
|Anniston Terminal Railroad
|
|L&N
|1888
|1890
|Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad
|-
|Ashland Railway
|<!--not ASRY - that's the one in Ohio-->
|
|1925
|1940
|N/A
|-
|Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway
|
|SAL
|1903
|1909
|Seaboard Air Line Railway
|-
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
|
|ACL
|1905
|1916
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
|-
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
|
|ACL
|1916<!--incorporated 1914?-->
|1927
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad
|-
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad
|
|ACL
|1927
|1946
|Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|-
|Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railway
|A&SA, ASAB
|
|1906
|1993
|Bay Line Railroad
|-
|Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|ACL
|ACL
|1902
|1967
|Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|-
|Bay Minette and Fort Morgan Railroad
|
|L&N
|1904
|1921
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Belt Line Railway
|
|ACL
|1889
|1943
|Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|-
|Birmingham and Atlanta Air Line Railway
|
|SAL
|1902
|1903
|East and West Railroad
|-
|Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
|
|
|1890
|1919
|N/A
|-
|Birmingham Belt Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1899
|1968
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|-
|Birmingham Mineral Railroad
|
|L&N
|1884
|1904
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Birmingham, Selma and Mobile Railroad
|
|
|1913
|1931
|N/A
|-
|Birmingham, Selma and New Orleans Railway
|
|L&N
|1886
|1902
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Birmingham, Selma and Pensacola Railroad
|
|
|1910
|1913
|Birmingham, Selma and Mobile Railroad
|-
|Birmingham, Sheffield and Tennessee River Railway
|
|SOU
|1889
|1895
|Northern Alabama Railway
|-
|Birmingham and Southeastern Railway
|B&SE
|
|1911
|1965
|N/A
|-
|Birmingham and Tennessee River Railroad
|
|SOU
|1884
|1885
|Sheffield and Birmingham Railroad
|-
|Birmingham Southern Railroad
|BS
|
|1899
|2012
|Birmingham Terminal Railway
|-
|Birmingham Terminal Company
|BTC
|CG/ IC/ SAL/ SLSF/ SOU
|
|
|
|-
|Birmingham and Tuscaloosa Railroad
|
|L&N
|1915
|1915
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Brierfield, Blockton and Birmingham Railway
|
|SOU
|1889
|1889
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|-
|Burlington Northern Inc.
|BN
|
|1980
|1981
|Burlington Northern Railroad
|-
|Burlington Northern Railroad
|BN
|
|1981
|1996
|Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
|-
|Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Railroad
|
|SOU
|1860
|1868
|Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
|-
|Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad in Alabama
|
|IC
|1898
|1913
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|-
|Carrollton Short Line Railway
|
|SLSF
|1897
|1906
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
|-
|Central of Georgia Railway
|CG
|CG
|1895
|1971
|Central of Georgia Railroad
|-
|Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroad
|CHAT
|
|2003
|2006
|Chattahoochee Bay Railroad
|-
|Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroad
|
|CG
|1899
|1948
|Central of Georgia Railway
|-
|Chattahoochee Valley Railroad
|
|
|1895
|1900
|Chattahoochee Valley Railway
|-
|Chattahoochee Valley Railway
|CHV
|
|1900
|1992
|N/A
|-
|Chattanooga Southern Railroad
|
|SOU
|1896
|1911
|Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad
|-
|Chattanooga Southern Railway
|
|SOU
|1890
|1895
|Chattanooga Southern Railroad
|-
|Cheney Railroad
|CHNY
|
|1989
|1996
|N/A
|-
|Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|IC
|1913<!--this is when it entered Alabama-->
|1951
|Illinois Central Railroad
|-
|Cincinnati, Selma and Mobile Railway
|
|SOU
|1881
|1890
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|-
|Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad
|
|SOU
|1871
|1881
|Georgia Pacific Railway
|-
|Columbus and Western Railway
|
|CG
|1880
|1888
|Savannah and Western Railroad
|-
|Decatur, Chesapeake and New Orleans Railway
|
|L&N
|1887<!--or 1888 in Alabama?-->
|1893
|Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway
|-
|DeKalb and Western Railroad
|
|
|1916<!--or later in Alabama?-->
|<!--no idea - about 1917?-->
|N/A
|-
|East Alabama Railway
|
|CG
|1880
|1888
|Savannah and Western Railroad
|-
|East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad
|
|CG
|1868
|1880
|East Alabama and Cincinnati Railway
|-
|East Alabama and Cincinnati Railway
|
|CG
|1880
|1880
|East Alabama Railway
|-
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
|
|SOU
|1881<!--this is when it entered Alabama?-->
|1886
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|-
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|
|SOU
|1886
|1894
|Southern Railway
|-
|East and West Railroad
|
|SAL
|1894
|1903
|Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway
|-
|East and West Railroad of Alabama
|
|SAL
|1882
|1893
|East and West Railroad
|-
|Eastern Railway of Alabama
|
|ACL
|1901
|1906
|Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
|-
|Elyton and Aberdeen Railroad
|
|SOU
|1870
|1882
|Georgia Pacific Railway
|-
|Ensley Southern Railway
|
|SOU
|1900
|1926
|Southern Railway, Warrior River Terminal Company
|-
|Escambia Railroad<!--can't find much on this; it may have originally been the Pensacola and Northern Alabama-->
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Eufaula and East Alabama Railway
|
|CG
|1887
|1888
|Savannah and Western Railroad
|-
|Eufaula and Clayton Railway
|
|CG
|1883
|1888
|Savannah and Western Railroad
|-
|Florence Bridge Company
|
|SOU
|1832
|1850
|Memphis and Charleston Railroad
|-
|Florence Railroad and Improvement Company
|
|L&N
|1888
|1897
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Florida and Alabama Railroad
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Florida, Alabama and Gulf Railroad
|
|
|1911
|1919
|Andalusia, Florida and Gulf Railway
|-
|Gadsden and Attalla Railroad
|
|SOU
|1876
|1904
|Southern Railway
|-
|Gadsden and Birmingham Railroad
|
|SOU
|1910
|1911
|Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad
|-
|Gainesville and Mississippi Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1852
|1854
|Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad
|-
|Georgia and Alabama Railroad
|GAAB
|
|1989
|1995
|Georgia Southwestern Railroad
|-
|Georgia and Alabama Railway
|
|SAL
|1895
|1902
|Seaboard Air Line Railway
|-
|Georgia Pacific Railroad
|
|SOU
|1876
|1882
|Georgia Pacific Railway
|-
|Georgia Pacific Railway
|
|SOU
|1882
|1894
|Southern Railway
|-
|Georgia Western Railroad
|
|SOU
|1860
|1877
|Georgia Pacific Railroad
|-
|Girard Railroad
|
|CG
|1845
|1854
|Mobile and Girard Railroad
|-
|Goodwater and Birmingham Railroad
|
|CG
|1886
|1887
|Columbus and Western Railway
|-
|Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railway
|DWR
|SLSF
|1911
|1922
|Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railway
|-
|Gulf and Mississippi Railroad
|GMSR
|
|1985
|1988
|SouthRail Corporation
|-
|Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|GM&N
|GM&O
|1915
|1940
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|-
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|GM&O, GMO
|GM&O
|1940
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|-
|Gulf Ports Terminal Railway
|
|
|1916
|1926
|N/A<!--portion in Florida went to Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad in 1927-->
|-
|Gulf Terminal Company
|
|GM&O/ SOU
|
|
|
|-
|Hartford and Slocomb Railroad
|HS
|
|1953
|1992
|H&S Railroad
|-
|Hayneville and Montgomery Railroad
|
|
| 1905
| 1917
|
|-
|H&S Railroad
|HS
|
|1992
|2006
|Chattahoochee Bay Railroad
|-
|Huntsville and Elora Railroad
|
|L&N
|1887
|1887
|Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
|-
|Illinois Central Railroad
|IC
|IC
|1899<!--this is when it entered Alabama through the lease of the Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad in Alabama-->
|1972
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|-
|Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|ICG
|
|1972
|1988
|Illinois Central Railroad
|-
|Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad
|
|L&N
|1881
|1887
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Inland Waterways Corporation
|
|
|1948
|1966
|Birmingham Southern Railroad
|-
|Jefferson Warrior Railroad
|
|
|1985
|2009
|Alabama Warrior Railway
|-
|Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1887
|1928
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|-
|Kansas City Southern Railway
|KCS
|
|1994
|2005<!--pulled back from Montgomery-Tuscaloosa-->
|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<!--leased Nashville and Decatur Railroad-->
|1983
|Seaboard System Railroad
|-
|Manistee and Repton Railroad
|
|L&N
|1910
|1965
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Marion Railroad
|
|SOU
|1854
|1858
|Marion and Cahaba Railroad
|-
|Marion and Alabama River Transportation Company
|
|SOU
|1850
|1854
|Marion Railroad
|-
|Marion and Cahaba Railroad
|
|SOU
|1858
|1860
|Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Railroad
|-
|Mary Lee Railroad
|
|
|
|1985
|Jefferson Warrior Railroad
|private
|-
|Meridian and Bigbee Railroad
|MBRR, MB
|
|1952
|1997
|M&B Railroad
|-
|Meridian and Bigbee River Railway
|
|
|1917
|1952
|Meridian and Bigbee Railroad
|-
|Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1886
|1887
|Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
|-
|Memphis and Charleston Railroad
|
|SOU
|1850
|1898
|Southern Railway
|-
|Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway
|
|L&N
|1893
|1897
|Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
|-
|Mississippi and Alabama Railroad
|
|
|1922
|1950
|N/A
|-
|Mississippi Central Railroad
|MSC
|IC
|1921
|1924
|N/A
|Trackage rights over the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad to Mobile
|-
|Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1854
|1870
|Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad
|
|SOU
|1866
|1886
|Mobile and West Alabama Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Bay Shore Railway
|
|GM&O
|1898
|1903
|Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Birmingham Railroad
|
|SOU
|1895
|
|
|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway
|-
|Mobile and Birmingham Railway
|
|SOU
|1887
|1895
|Mobile and Birmingham Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Girard Railroad
|
|CG
|1854
|1895
|Central of Georgia Railway
|-
|Mobile and Great Northern Railroad
|
|L&N
|1856
|1868
|Mobile and Montgomery Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Gulf Railroad
|MG
|
|1925
|1984
|N/A
|-
|Mobile, Hattiesburg and Jackson Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1887
|1888
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|-
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1888
|1909
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Montgomery Railroad
|
|L&N
|1868
|1874
|Mobile and Montgomery Railway
|-
|Mobile and Montgomery Railway
|
|L&N
|1874
|1900
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Northwestern Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1870
|1891
|Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
|-
|Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1848
|1940
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|-
|Mobile Terminal and Railway Company
|
|SLSF
|1910
|1913
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
|-
|Mobile and West Alabama Railroad
|
|SOU
|1885
|1887
|Mobile and Birmingham Railway
|-
|Mobile and Western Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1906
|1907
|Mobile and Ohio Railroad<!--through Union Naval Stores Company as an intermediary-->
|-
|Montgomery Railroad
|
|ACL/ L&N
|1834
|1842
|Montgomery and West Point Railroad
|-
|Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad
|
|CG
|1860
|1879<!--?-->
|Montgomery and Eufaula Railway
|-
|Montgomery and Eufaula Railway
|
|CG
|1879
|1895
|Central of Georgia Railway
|-
|Montgomery and Florida Railway
|
|ACL
|1886
|1888
|Northwestern and Florida Railroad
|-
|Montgomery, Hayneville and Camden Railroad
|
|L&N
|1890
|1900
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Montgomery and Prattville Railroad
|
|L&N
|1895
|1896
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Montgomery Southern Railway
|
|ACL
|1880
|1886
|Montgomery and Florida Railway
|-
|Montgomery and West Point Railroad
|
|ACL/ L&N
|1843
|1870
|Western Railroad of Alabama
|-
|Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad
|MSBP
|SLSF
|1924
|1928
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|-
|Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railway
|MSBP
|SLSF
|1922
|1924
|Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad
|-
|Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
|
|L&N
|1850<!--this is when it was authorized in Alabama-->
|1873
|Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
|-
|Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
|N&C, NC
|L&N
|1873
|1957
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Nashville and Decatur Railroad
|
|L&N
|1866
|1990
|CSX Transportation
|-
|Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railway
|
|L&N
|1887
|1900
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|New and Old Decatur Belt and Terminal Railroad
|
|L&N
|1890
|1892
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad
|
|L&N
|1866
|1871
|New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad
|-
|New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
|
|GM&O
|1909
|1915
|Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|-
|New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad
|
|L&N
|1871
|1881
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|New Orleans and Selma Railroad
|
|L&N
|1866
|1868
|New Orleans and Selma Railroad and Immigration Association
|-
|New Orleans and Selma Railroad and Immigration Association
|
|L&N
|1868
|1886
|Birmingham, Selma and New Orleans Railway
|-
|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
|
|ACL
|1888
|1889
|Alabama Terminal and Improvement Company
|-
|Oak Grove and Georgetown Railroad
|
|
|1904
|1927
|N/A
|-
|Oneonta and Attalla Railroad
|
|L&N
|1900
|1905
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Opelika and Talladega Railroad
|
|CG
|1854
|1861
|Opelika and Tuscumbia Railroad
|-
|Opelika and Tuscumbia Railroad
|
|CG
|1861
|1866
|Savannah and Memphis Railroad
|-
|Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway
|
|
|1907
|1917
|Gulf Ports Terminal Railway
|-
|Pensacola and Selma Railroad
|
|L&N
|1880
|1880
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Pine Belt Southern Railroad
|PBRR
|
|1995
|2001
|N/A
|-
|Plant System
|
|ACL
|1894
|1902
|Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|-
|Richmond and Danville Railroad
|
|SOU
|1889<!--leased the Georgia Pacific Railway-->
|1894
|Southern Railway
|-
|Rome and Decatur Railroad
|
|SOU
|1882
|1889
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|-
|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1903<!--this is when it leased the KCM&B-->
|1916
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|-
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|SLSF
|SLSF
|1916
|1980
|Burlington Northern Inc.
|-
|Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway
|
|SAL
|1888
|1895
|Georgia and Alabama Railway
|-
|Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|
|ACL
|1901<!--previously it controlled but did not operate any Alabama mileage-->
|1902
|Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|-
|Savannah and Memphis Railroad
|
|CG
|1866
|1880
|Columbus and Western Railway
|-
|Savannah and Western Railroad
|
|CG
|1885
|1895
|Central of Georgia Railway
|-
| Seaboard Railroad of Alabama
|
|
|1890
|1900
|Tombigbee and Northern Railway
|-
|Seaboard Air Line Railroad
|SAL
|SAL
|1946
|1967
|Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|-
|Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
|SAL
|1900<!--this is when it leased the Georgia and Alabama Railway-->
|1945
|Seaboard Air Line Railroad
|-
|Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|SCL
|
|1967
|1983
|Seaboard System Railroad
|-
|Seaboard System Railroad
|SBD
|
|1983
|1986
|CSX Transportation
|-
|Selma and Gulf Railroad
|
|L&N
|1858
|1879
|Pensacola and Selma Railroad
|-
|Selma and Greensboro Railroad
|
|SOU
|1878
|1881
|Cincinnati, Selma and Mobile Railway
|-
|Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
|
|SOU
|1868
|1878
|Selma and Greensboro Railroad
|-
|Selma and Meridian Railroad
|
|SOU
|1864
|1871
|Alabama Central Railroad
|-
|Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
|
|SOU
|1866
|1880
|East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
|-
|Sheffield and Birmingham Railroad
|
|SOU
|1885
|1887
|Sheffield and Birmingham Coal, Iron and Railway Company
|-
|Sheffield and Birmingham Coal, Iron and Railway Company
|
|SOU
|1887
|1889
|Birmingham, Sheffield and Tennessee River Railway
|-
|Sheffield and Tuscumbia Railroad
|
|L&N
|1895
|1896
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Sheffield and Tuscumbia Street Railway
|
|L&N
|1886
|1895
|Sheffield and Tuscumbia Railroad
|-
|South and North Alabama Railroad
|
|L&N
|1854
|1914
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|Southern Railway
|SOU
|SOU
|1894
|1990
|Norfolk Southern Railway
|-
|Southern Alabama Railroad
|SUAB
|
|1988
|2001
|Conecuh Valley Railroad
|-
|Southern Alabama Railroad
|
|L&N
|1899
|1899
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|-
|SouthRail Corporation
|SR
|
|1988
|1994
|Kansas City Southern Railway
|-
|Southwestern Railroad<!--or South Western Railroad?-->
|
|CG
|1859<!--or 1860? it was authorized to enter Alabama in 1859-1860-->
|
|
|Owned by Central of Georgia Railway; still exists as a lessor of Norfolk Southern Railway operating subsidiary Central of Georgia Railroad
|-
|Southwestern Alabama Railway
|
|ACL
|1896
|1901
|Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|-
|Sumter and Choctaw Railway
|SC
|
|1904
|1983<!--discontinued; abandonment authorized in 1986-->
|Alabama Southern Railroad (never operated)
|-
|Sylacauga and Wetumpka Railroad
|
|
|1902
|1911
|
|-
|Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad
|
|
|1883
|1890
|Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
|-
|Tallassee and Montgomery Railway
|
|
|1895
|1912
|Birmingham and Southeastern Railway
|-
|Tennessee and Alabama Railroad
|
|L&N
|1887
|1887
|Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railway
|-
|Tennessee and Alabama Central Railroad
|
|L&N
|1853
|1866
|Nashville and Decatur Railroad
|-
|Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad
|
|SOU
|1911
|1922
|Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway
|-
|Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway
|TA&G, TAG
|SOU
|1922
|
|
|Still exists as an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway
|-
|Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Tennessee and Coosa Railroad
|
|L&N
|1844
|1891
|Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
|-
|Tennessee Valley Railroad
|
|SOU
|1848
|1851
|Memphis and Charleston Railroad
|-
|Tombigbee and Northern Railway
|
|
|1900
|1904
|Tombigbee Valley Railroad
|-
|Tombigbee Valley Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1904
|1913
|Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
|-
|Tredegar Mineral Railway
|
|SAL
|1891
|1900
|East and West Railroad
|-
|Tuscaloosa Mineral Railroad
|
|L&N
|1910
|1915
|Birmingham and Tuscaloosa Railroad
|-
|Tuscumbia Railway
|
|SOU
|1830
|1850
|Memphis and Charleston Railroad
|-
|Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad
|
|SOU
|1832
|1847
|Tennessee Valley Railroad
|-
|Tuskegee Railroad
|TK
|
|1860
|1963
|N/A
|-
|Tyson Railroad
|TSNR
|
|1989
|1992
|CSX Transportation
|-
|Union Springs and Northern Railway
|
|
|1901
|1911
|Birmingham and Southeastern Railway
|-
|Vicksburg and Brunswick Railroad
|
|CG
|1867
|1879
|Eufaula and Clayton Railway
|-
|Vredenburgh Saw Mill Company
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Warrior River Terminal Company
|
|
|1926
|1948
|Inland Waterways Corporation
|-
|Warrior Southern Railway
|
|
|1901
|1938
|Twin Seam Mining Company
|Owned by Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|-
|Washington and Choctaw Railway
|
|
|1910
|1927<!--?-->
|N/A
|-
|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<!--or 1852 in Alabama?-->
|1875
|Memphis and Charleston Railroad
|-
|Woodstock and Blocton Railway
|
|L&N/ SOU
|1906
|
|
|Still exists; owned by CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway but operated by the latter
|-
|Woodward Iron Company
|
|
|
|
|
|private
|-
|Yellow River Railroad
|
|L&N
|1887
|1906
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|}
;Electric railways
- Birmingham and Edgewood Electric Railway
- Birmingham Railway and Electric Company
- Birmingham Street Railway
- Birmingham–Tuscaloosa Railway and Utilities Company
- Metropolitan Rapid Transit, Light and Power Company
Notes
References
- Association of American Railroads (2003), . Retrieved August 16, 2005
- Worker's of the Writer's Program of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Alabama(1941) Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South. American Guide Series. (New York: R. R. Smith)