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Alabama Southern Railroad
The Alabama Southern Railroad 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 line leased from the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCSR). It began operating in 2005. History The railroad began operating on November 20, 2005 on lines leased from the Kansas City Southern Railway. The line was originally constructed by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad which was purchased through a foreclosure sale by the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GM&O) on August 1, 1940. The GM&O merged with the Illinois Central on August 10, 1972, resulting in the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. On March 31, 1986, MidSouth Rail purchased of track, which included this line, from the Illinois Central Gulf. On January 1, 1994, the Kansas City Southern bought out Midsouth Rail. Lines The Alabama Southern's line is composed of three Kansas City Southern branch lines totaling : *The Tuscaloosa Subdivision (Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Alabama, Baldwin County , LargestMetro = Birmingham metropolitan area, Alabama, Greater Birmingham , area_total_km2 = 135,765 , area_total_sq_mi = 52,419 , area_land_km2 = 131,426 , area_land_sq_mi = 50,744 , area_water_km2 = 4,338 , area_water_sq_mi = 1,675 , area_water_percent = 3.2 , area_rank = 30th , length_km = 531 , length_mi = 330 , width_km = 305 , width_mi = 190 , Latitude = 30°11' N to 35° N , Longitude = 84°53' W to 88°28' W , elevation_m = 150 , elevation_ft = 500 , elevation_max_m = 735.5 , elevation_max_ft = 2,413 , elevation_max_point = Mount Cheaha , elevation_min_m = 0 , elevation_min_ft = 0 , elevation_min_point = Gulf of Mexico , OfficialLang = English language, English , Languages = * English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrior Branch
A warrior is a person specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracies, class, or caste. History Warriors seem to have been present in the earliest pre-state societies. Scholars have argued that horse-riding Yamnaya warriors from the Pontic–Caspian steppe played a key role during the Indo-European migrations and the diffusion of Indo-European languages across Eurasia. Most of the basic weapons used by warriors appeared before the rise of most hierarchical systems. Bows and arrows, clubs, spears, swords, and other edged weapons were in widespread use. However, with the new findings of metallurgy, the aforementioned weapons had grown in effectiveness. When the first hierarchical systems evolved 5000 years ago, the gap between the rulers and the ruled had increased. Making war to extend the outreach of their territories, rulers often forced men from lower orders o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Companies Established In 2005
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Common freight carriers *Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) *Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad (IC) *Columbus and Greenville Railway (CAGY) *CSX Transportation (CSXT *Golden Triangle Railroad (GTRA) *Grenada Railway (GRYR) *Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) *Luxapalila Valley Railroad (LXVR) *M&B Railroad (MNBR) *Meridian Southern Railway (MDS) *Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI) *Mississippi Delta Railroad (MSDR) *Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) * Mississippi Southern Railroad (MSR) *Mississippian Railway (MSRW) * Natchez Railway (NTZR) *Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiary Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS) *Old Augusta Railroad (OAR) *Port Bienville Railroad (PBVR) *Ripley and New Albany Railroad (RNA) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Tennessee Terminal (RJCK) *Vicksburg Southern Railroad (VSOR) *West Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Railroads
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 Railroad (ALAB) *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 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Establishments In Alabama
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Alabama Railroads
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 Railroad (ALAB) *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 Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Railroads
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge. Reporting marks are listed in parentheses. RailincSearch MARKs accessed February 2009 * A&R Terminal Railroad (ART) *Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR) * Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR) * Acadiana Railway (AKDN) * Adams-Warnock Railway (AWRY) * Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road (ADBF) * Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) *Ag Valley Railroad (AVRR) * Aiken Railway (AIKR) (WCRSC) * Airlake Terminal Railway (ALKT) (PGR) *Akron Barberton Cluster Railway (AB) (WE) *Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) (GWRR) *Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (ATN) (OMLX) *Alabama Export Railroad (ALE) (MSE) *Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS) (WATX) *Alabama Warrior Railway (ABWR) (WATX) *Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad (AGCR) (MMAX) * Alamo North Texas Railroad (ANTX) (MMAX) *Alaska Railroad (ARR) *Albany and Eastern Railroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the company operates 19,420 route miles (31,250 km) in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia, and has rights in Canada over the Albany to Montréal route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. NS is responsible for maintaining , with the remainder being operated under trackage rights from other parties responsible for maintenance. Intermodal containers and trailers are the most common commodity type carried by NS, which have grown as coal business has declined throughout the 21st century; coal was formerly the largest source of traffic. The railway offers the largest intermodal rail network in eastern North America. NS was also the pioneer of Roadrailer service. Norfolk Southern and its chief competitor, CSX Transportation, have a duopoly on the transcontinental freight rail li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. The company operates as the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation (the parent of CSX Transportation) was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies which controlled a number of railroads operating in the Eastern United States. Initially only a holding company itself, the subsidiaries that made up CSX Corporation were gradually merged, with this process completed in 1987. CSX Transportation formally came into existence in 1986, as the successor of Seaboard System Railroad. In 1999, CSX Transportation acquired approximately half of Conrail, in a joint purchase with competitor Norfolk Southern Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artesia, Mississippi
Artesia is a town in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The population was 440 at the 2010 census. History Artesia was originally ''Artesia Junction'', a junction point on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. During the railroad's construction in the 1850s, an offer was made to the towns of Columbus and Aberdeen to route the railroad through the towns, but both towns refused. Columbus reconsidered a few months later; but by that time, the railway had already chosen a route well to the west of the town. However, the railroad did extend a spur line in order to serve Columbus, and that spur line joins the main line at the site of present-day Artesia. Artesia was the site of a voter suppression incident in 1876 in which a group of heavily armed white men from Starkville came to intimidate black voters in the Republican Club. Federal troops were called to intervene, which enraged many whites, who depicted the event as a negro riot. The name originates from a cluster of artesian wells that were fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surface Transportation Board
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board. The STB was established on January 1, 1996, to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission when the ICC was abolished. Other ICC regulatory functions were either eliminated or transferred to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or Bureau of Transportation Statistics within DOT. The STB has broad economic regulatory oversight of railroads, including rates, service, the construction, acquisition, and abandonment of rail lines, carrier mergers, and interchange of traffic among carriers. The STB also has oversight of pipeline carriers, intercity bus carriers, moving van companies, trucking companies involved in collective activities, and water carriers engaged in non-contiguous domestic trade. The Board has wide discretion, through its exemption authority from federal, state, and local laws, to tail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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