Alabama Warrior Railway
The Alabama Warrior Railway ( AAR reporting as mark: ABWR) is a shunting - Railway Company in Birmingham (Alabama) in the United States .
The company has operated freight transport on the tracks of the Jefferson Warrior Railroad (JEFW) and Walter Coke since 2009 . The network currently comprises around 40 km of free stretch. Transport goods are scrap, coal, coke, chemicals and mineral fibers. The coke produced at Walter Coke is transported directly to the pipe production of the neighboring US Pipe . Other customers are Lafarge , Cemex , Harrison Gypsum and Performance Minerals .
In North Birmingham there are transitions to the Class 1 routes of BNSF Railway , CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern .
history
In the 1890s, the gated Mary Lee Railroad was established. The company built a railway line to supply coal from the West Jefferson, Bessie, Nebo, Flat Top and Mary Lee mines to the furnaces of the Alabama Consolidated Coal Company (ACC & I Co.) in north Birmingham. The Mary Lee Railroad belongs to the ACC & I Co. and was taken over with this in October 1924 by the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company (today as Walter Coke a subsidiary of Walter Energy ).
On January 1, 1985, the Mary Lee Railroad became a public railway company and was called Jefferson Warrior Railroad from then on. In 1995 around 20 employees transported 12,000 freight wagons. The company owns six locomotives (four EMD SW1500 (No. 51 to 54) and two EMD NW2M (No. 55 and 56)).
On August 7, 2009, the newly founded Alabama Warrior Railway, part of Watco Companies, took over operations on the line.
literature
- Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide . 5th edition. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 1996, ISBN 0-89024-290-9 .
Web links
- Mary Lee Railroad
- Jefferson Warrior Railroad steeped in history Website of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. (English)
- Railway Track & Structures August 11, 2009: Watco's Alabama Warrior Railway begins operations
- Photos of the Jefferson Warrior Railroad locomotives
Individual evidence
- ^ Watco Companies ( Memento of September 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Diesel Shop: Inventory of the locomotives
- ^ Surface Transportation Board: Finance Docket No. 35203