The
Alabama legislature chartered the Alabama and Florida Rail Road Company in February 1850. The Congress of the United States in legislative session authorized the grant of public lands to the company in May 1856. The Alabama legislature consolidated the
Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company and the
Alabama and Florida Railroad Company into the
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Company in 1868.
Operation of some of the company's
rail track
A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as permanent way or simply track, is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, ...
line succeeded to
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company.
The company also operated at least some of the
Pensacola Railroad.
See also
*
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1853–1869)
*
M&M Subdivision
References
1850 establishments in Alabama
Companies based in Alabama
Railway companies established in 1850
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