User:Donald Albury/Alabama and Florida Railroad notes


 * Branch of Alabama and Florida Railroad from Pensacola to Flomaton, Alabama (45 miles) started in 1861 and completed May, 1869. Rebuilt after Civil War, became Pensacola and Louisville Railroad, then Pensacola Railroad Company. Acquired by Louisville and Nashville in February 1880.


 * Federal land in the amount of 159,185.09 acres granted to the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company of Florida (Pensacola to the state line at Flomaton) and 439,972.58 acres to the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company of Alabama (Montgomery to the state line at Flomaton) in 1856.


 * "The Alabama & Florida Railroad of Alabama, running from Montgomery to Pollard ... used 5' gauge tracks."