List of railroads of the Confederate States of America
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This is a list of Confederate Railroads in operation or used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
. See also Confederate railroads in the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. Southern companies, towns, cities as well as state governments were heavy investors in railroad companies, which were typically designed as feeder lines linking farming centers to port cities.
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. See also Confederate railroads in the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. Southern companies, towns, cities as well as state governments were heavy investors in railroad companies, which were typically designed as feeder lines linking farming centers to port cities.
Railroads and Railroad Companies
- Alabama and Florida Railroad of Alabama
- Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad
- Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad
- Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida
- Alabama Coal Company Railroad
- Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad
- Allen’s Plantation Railroad
- Atlanta and West Point Railroad
- Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
- Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
- Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad
- Augusta and Milledgeville Railroad
- Augusta and Savannah RailroadAugusta and Savannah RailroadThe Augusta and Savannah Railroad was chartered in 1838 as the Augusta and Waynesboro Railroad but didn't begin operations until 1854. Two years later in 1856, it changed its name to Augusta and Savannah Railroad. The A&S ran of track between Augusta and Millen, Georgia, USA. It was absorbed by...
- Baton Rouge, Grosse Tete and Opelousa Railroad
- Baltimore and Ohio RailroadBaltimore and Ohio RailroadThe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...
- Blue Ridge Railroad
- Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina
- Brunswick and Albany RailroadBrunswick and Albany RailroadOrganized in 1869, the Brunswick and Albany Railroad was created to take over operation of the Brunswick and Florida Railroad which was a casualty of the civil war. Apparently the Confederate States of America took portions of the B&F rail line for use in other more strategic lines...
- Brunswick and Florida RailroadBrunswick and Florida RailroadThe Brunswick and Florida Railroad was chartered in 1835 and was originally planned to run from several areas in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida to Brunswick, Georgia. By 1859, the railroad stretched from Brunswick to Glenmore, Georgia, where it connected with the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad...
- Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad
- Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Railroad
- Central Railroad of Georgia
- Central Southern Railroad
- Centreville Military RailroadCentreville Military RailroadThe Centreville Military Railroad was a 5.5 mile spur running from the Orange and Alexandria Railroad east of Manassas Junction across Bull Run and up the south side of the Centreville Plateau. Built by the Confederate States Army between November 1861 and February 1862, it was the first...
- Charlotte and South Carolina RailroadCharlotte and South Carolina RailroadThe Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad began in 1852 and existed until 1869, when it was absorbed by Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad...
- Charleston and Savannah Railroad
- Cheraw and Darlington RailroadCheraw and Darlington RailroadThe Cheraw and Darlington Railroad was a shortline railroad that served South Carolina and, later, North Carolina, beginning before the American Civil War....
- Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad
- Clover Hill Railroad
- East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
- Eastern Texas Railroad
- Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad
- Etowah Railroad
- Florida RailroadFlorida RailroadThe Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida, running from Fernandina to Cedar Key. The line later became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, and, where still in use, is operated by CSX Transportation and the First Coast Railroad...
- Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central RailroadFlorida, Atlantic and Gulf Central RailroadThe Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad was a railroad company that, in 1860, completed a railroad line running from Jacksonville, Florida, west to Lake City, Florida...
- Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad
- Galveston and Houston Junction Railroad
- Georgia Railroad
- Gordon's Mine Railroad
- Grand Gulf and Port Gibson Railroad
- Greenville and Columbia RailroadGreenville and Columbia RailroadThe Greenville and Columbia Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina in the 19th century.-Beginnings:The line traces its history back to 1845, when Greenville, South Carolina-area leaders Benjamin Perry, Waddy Thompson Jr., John T. Coleman and Joel Poinsett called a public meeting, this...
- Houston & Texas Central Railroad
- Houston Tap and Brazoria Railroad
- Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad
- King’s Mountain Railroad
- Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad
- Laurens RailroadLaurens RailroadThe Laurens Railroad was a shortline railroad that served the South Carolina Upstate region before, during and after the American Civil War.The line was started in 1854.By 1861, the 32-mile line was carrying 8,500 passengers a day....
- Louisville and Nashville RailroadLouisville and Nashville RailroadThe Louisville and Nashville Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.Chartered by the state of Kentucky in 1850, the L&N, as it was generally known, grew into one of the great success stories of American business...
- Macon and Brunswick RailroadMacon and Brunswick Railroad-History:It was chartered in 1856 but track building was halted during the American Civil War. By 1867 there was fifty miles of tracks from Macon, Georgia to Hawkinsville, Georgia. The East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad bought the railroad line in 1881....
- Macon and Western RailroadMacon and Western RailroadThe Macon & Western Railroad was originally chartered as the Monroe Railroad and Banking Company in December, 1833. It was not until 1838 that it opened for business with a line from Macon, Georgia to Forsyth. It was extended to Griffin in 1842...
- Manassas Gap RailroadManassas Gap RailroadThe Manassas Gap Railroad was an historic intrastate railroad in the Southern United States which ran from Mount Jackson, Virginia to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at a junction called "Manassas Junction", which later became the city of Manassas, Virginia...
- McMinnville and Manchester Railroad
- Memphis and Charleston RailroadMemphis and Charleston RailroadThe Memphis and Charleston Railroad, completed in 1857, was the first railroad in the United States to link the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River. Chartered in 1846 the railroad ran from Memphis, Tennessee to Stevenson, Alabama through the towns of Corinth, Mississippi and Huntsville,...
- Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
- Memphis and Ohio Railroad
- Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville RailroadMemphis, Clarksville and Louisville RailroadThe Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad received its charter on January 28, 1852, from the state of Tennessee. The line connected with the Memphis and Ohio Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad connects between Memphis and Louisville.The railroad had a major strike in 1868...
- Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad
- Mexican Gulf Railroad
- Milledgeville Railroad
- Mississippi Central RailroadMississippi Central RailroadMississippi Central Railroad may refer to:*Mississippi Central Railroad , a line from Oxford, Mississippi to Grand Junction, Tennessee owned by Pioneer Railcorp...
- Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad
- Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
- Mobile and Girard Railroad
- Mobile and Great Northern Railroad
- Mobile and Ohio RailroadMobile and Ohio RailroadThe Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was planned to span the distance between the seaport of Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois...
- Montevallo Coal Railroad
- Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad
- Montgomery and West Point RailroadMontgomery and West Point RailroadThe Montgomery and West Point Railroad was an early 19th century railroad in Alabama and Georgia. It played an important role during the American Civil War as a supply and transportation route for the Confederate Army, and, as such, was the target of a large raid by Union cavalry in the summer of...
- Muscogee Railroad
- Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
- Nashville and Decatur Railroad
- Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
- New Orleans and Carrollton RailroadNew Orleans and Carrollton RailroadThe New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad was one of six short-line rail systems built to connect the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, with surrounding neighborhoods, in this case, four-and-a-half miles to the resort village of Carrollton...
- New Orleans and Ohio Railroad
- New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
- New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western RailroadNew Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western RailroadThe New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad was chartered in 1852. Construction began at Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, in late 1852. By 1857, the track had reached Brashear on Berwick Bay, and this remained the end of the line for over 20 years...
- Nashville and Decatur Railroad
- Norfolk and Petersburg RailroadNorfolk and Petersburg RailroadThe Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad was built between Norfolk and Petersburg, Virginia and was completed by 1858.It played a role on the American Civil War , and became part of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in 1870. The AM&O became the Norfolk and Western in 1881...
- North Carolina RailroadNorth Carolina RailroadThe North Carolina Railroad is a state-owned rail corridor extending from Morehead City, North Carolina to Charlotte, North Carolina. The railroad carries over seventy freight trains and eight passenger trains daily...
- Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad
- Northeastern RailroadNortheastern Railroad (South Carolina)The Northeastern Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina in the second half of the 19th century.Chartered in 1851, it was completed in 1856 and ran from Charleston, South Carolina, to Florence, South Carolina....
- Northwestern Virginia Railroad
- Orange and Alexandria RailroadOrange and Alexandria RailroadThe Orange and Alexandria Railroad was an intrastate railroad in Virginia, United States. It extended from Alexandria to Gordonsville, with another section from Charlottesville to Lynchburg...
- Pensacola and Georgia RailroadPensacola and Georgia RailroadThe Pensacola and Georgia Railroad was a railroad line chartered in January 1853 that, by 1863, ran from Tallahassee, Florida east to Lake City, Florida and west to Quincy, Florida...
- Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
- Petersburg RailroadPetersburg RailroadPetersburg Railroad was chartered in 1830 and opened in 1833. It ran from Petersburg, Virginia south to Garysburg, North Carolina, from which it ran to Weldon via trackage rights over the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad...
- Piedmont Railroad
- Pontchartrain Railroad
- Raleigh and Gaston RailroadRaleigh and Gaston RailroadThe Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was a Raleigh, North Carolina-based railroad opened in 1840 between Raleigh and the town of Gaston, North Carolina on the Roanoke River...
- Raymond Railroad
- Red River RailroadRed River RailroadThe Red River Railroad, also known as the Ralph Smith Smith Railroad, was the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River in the United States...
- Richmond and York River RailroadRichmond and York River RailroadRichmond and York River Railroad was completed between Richmond, Virginia and West Point, Virginia in 1861. The western terminus was adjacent to Richmond's Tobacco Row...
- Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac RailroadRichmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac RailroadThe Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. It is now a portion of the CSX Transportation system....
- Roanoke Valley Railroad
- Rogersville and Jefferson Railroad
- Rome RailroadRome RailroadThis railroad was first chartered as the Memphis Branch Railroad and Steamboat Company of Georgia in 1839. This company built a 20 mile line between Rome, Georgia and Kingston where it connected with the Western and Atlantic Railroad...
- San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad
- Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad
- Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
- Selma and Meridian Railroad
- Shelby Iron Company RailroadShelby Iron Company RailroadThe Shelby Iron Company Railroad was an Alabama railroad company that started during the American Civil War. The Shelby Iron Company Railroad was built to connect the Shelby Iron Company in Shelby County, Alabama, to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad at Columbiana, Alabama, a distance of...
- South and North Alabama Railroad
- South Carolina Railroad
- Southside Railroad
- South Western Railroad
- Southern Railroad of Mississippi
- Southern Pacific RailroadSouthern Pacific RailroadThe Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company, and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or Espee, was an American railroad....
- Spartanburg and Union RailroadSpartanburg and Union RailroadThe Spartanburg and Union Railroad was a shortline railroad that served the South Carolina Upstate region before, during and after the American Civil War....
- Spring Hill Railroad
- Tallahassee Railroad
- Tennessee and Alabama Railroad
- Tennessee and Alabama Central Railroad
- Tennessee Coal and Railroad
- Texas and New Orleans RailroadTexas and New Orleans RailroadThe Texas and New Orleans Railroad is a former railroad in Texas and Louisiana. At one point the company was the largest railroad in Texas, with of trackage in 1934, but by 1961 there were only remaining when it was merged with parent company Southern Pacific....
- Tuckahoe and James River Railroad
- Tuskegee Railroad
- Upson County Railroad
- Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad
- Virginia and Tennessee RailroadVirginia and Tennessee RailroadThe Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic railroad in the Southern United States, much of which is incorporated into the modern Norfolk Southern Railway...
- Virginia Central RailroadVirginia Central RailroadVirginia Central Railroad was chartered as the Louisa Railroad in 1836 by the Virginia Board of Public Works and had its name changed to Virginia Central Railroad in 1850. It connected Richmond with the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at Gordonsville in 1854, and had expanded westward past the Blue...
- Washington County Railroad
- West Feliciana Railroad
- Western RailroadWestern RailroadThe following railroads have been known as Western Railroad or Western Railway:*Western Railroad of New Braunfels*Western Railroad of Alabama*Western Railway of Alabama*Western Railway of Arizona*Western Railway of Florida...
- Western North Carolina RailroadWestern North Carolina RailroadThe Western North Carolina Railroad was a 19th century railroad that ran from Salisbury to Murphy, North Carolina.Future American Civil War officer Samuel McDowell Tate was instrumental in planning and sponsoring the construction of the first leg of the railroad in 1855, then in managing it in the...
- Wills Valley Railroad
- Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad
- Wilmington and Manchester RailroadWilmington and Manchester RailroadThe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina before, during and after the American Civil War...
- Wilmington and Weldon RailroadWilmington and Weldon RailroadOriginally chartered in 1835 as the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad name began use in 1855. At the time of its 1840 completion, the line was the longest railroad in the world with 161.5 miles of track...
- Winchester and Alabama Railroad
- Winchester and Potomac RailroadWinchester and Potomac RailroadThe Winchester and Potomac Railroad was an historic railroad in the Southern United States, which ran from Winchester, Virginia to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad junction at Harpers Ferry on the Potomac River. The W&P Railroad is now incorporated into the modern CSX Transportation Class I...