South & North Alabama
The road was a wartime expedient to connect the Red Mountain iron and coal fields to Selma, Alabama. The route used the one already surveyed for the unbuilt Alabama Central Railroad. Best evidence at present, shows that it ran from the Cahaba River to the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad at Calera. Much grading was done on the fifteen miles on to Elyton (the future Birmingham).

The railroad's only locomotive was a small locomotive saved from a northwest Florida lumber mill when Pensacola was evacuated. This may have been from the Pensacola & Mobile Railroad.
Black's Number Not on Black's maps (map)
Track 17 miles of 5 foot gauge of various types and weights
Locomotives 0; 1 named
Cars 0
Stations 3
Officers 3
Significant Documents
NA, A&F 4-3-63
NA, ENG 9-5-63
B8, ALA 4-16-64
NA, QM 10-1-64
UA, SIW 1-14A-65
UA, SIW 1-15-65
UA, SIW 3-15A-65

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