Montgomery, AL: Western Railway of Alabama Roundhouse and Shops

(Satellite)

The "Satellite" link above is to the roundhouse footprint itself. I saved this view because there is a lot of abandoned railroading in this area. Note that North is to the right. The railyard above Court Street is the CSX/L&N yard. This yard was the mostly empty land south of Court Street.

Satellite

Gary Illig posted
Does anyone here know which railroad operated this roundhouse in Montgomery, Alabama? TIA
Thomas Dorman: Western Railway of Alabama

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's post
It looks like that railroad and L&N were the only ones that went through Montgomery. GM&O, SAL, Central of Georgia and ACL all terminated here.
1957 Montgomery Quad @ 250,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's post
WRoA had the classification yard that still exists further north. It looks like CoG and/or SAL may have shared these facilities with WRoA. The yard to the west was L&N. The WRoA roundhouse was gone by 1958 and traces of the L&N roundhouse are now gone.
1958 Montgomery North Quad @ 24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's post
There are enough remnants of the roundhouse that we can determine that the 1930 map accurately depicts the location and size of the roundhouse.
1930 Montgomery Quad @ 62,500
Ted Gregory: Very cool Dennis. I worked for CSX and I do not remember there being another yard other than the L&N yard in existence in the early 2000's. Anything that came off the ACL Bow Line from Waycross GA would also come into the L&N Yard iirc.
But since then, CSX has spun off their Florida Panhandle mainline from Jax to Pensacola which forced more freight onto the Bow Line which means they had to come up from Mobile via Flomaton and Montgomery to get to Waycross. In other words, additional Bow Line traffic may have required reactivation a yard. William Davis can you shed any light on CSX Yards in Montgomery? Am I correct?

Nick Kozlik posted
Montgomery Alabama.

Chase Withrow: This is all but gone now. New customers and track in the redevelopment of the property cover most of this.

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