The following

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s have operated in the State of Alabama.

Class I Railroads

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

(BNSF) *

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...

(CN) through its subsidiary

Illinois Central Railroad The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, ...

(IC) *

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the lead ...

(CSXT) *

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

(NS) including its subsidiaries

Alabama Great Southern Railroad The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia (U.S.), Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS), running southwest from Chatt ...

(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 The Meridian and Bigbee Railroad was a Class III railroad that operates over of track between Meridian, Mississippi and Burkville, Alabama. Additionally, the M&B had trackage rights over CSX from Burkville to Montgomery, Alabama. MNBR used t ...

(MNBR) * Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI) *

Sequatchie Valley Railroad The Sequatchie Valley Railroad was originally part of the Jasper Branch Railroad that was founded in 1860. The SQVR took over in the mid 1990s and now runs from Bridgeport, Alabama, to near Jasper, Tennessee. It is categorized as a "Local Rail ...

(SQVR) * Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR) * Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks (TASD) * Three Notch Railroad (TNHR) * Wiregrass Central Railroad (WGCR)

Passenger Railroads

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

(AMTK): '' The Crescent''

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 The Kerr-McGee Corporation, founded in 1929, was an American energy company involved in oil exploration, production of crude oil, natural gas, perchlorate and uranium mining and milling in various countries. On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleu ...

at Mobile) *Southern Electric Railroad (

Southern Company Southern Company is an American gas and electric utility holding company based in the Southern United States. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with executive offices located in Birmingham, Alabama. As of 2021 it is the second largest ut ...

plants)

Defunct railroads

;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) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alabama railroads

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road ...