Tombigbee Valley Railroad

Standard Gauge

Headquarters: Fairford, AL

Years of Operation: 1904-1913

Predecessor Roads: Tombigbee & Northern

Successor Roads: Alabama Tennessee & Northern

Miles Operated: Main line: Nannahubba Bluff, AL to Healing Springs, AL, 52 miles.

Locomotives Owned: 

Equipment

 

 

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HISTORY by Gil Hoffman:

The Tombigbee Valley Railroad was a reorganization on March 5, 1904, of the Tombigbee & Norhern Railway, which was 36-inch gauge. The new company immediately converted the line to standard gauge and abandoned the section from Nannahubba Bluffs to Calvert, AL. The Tombigbee Valley RR became part of the Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad on May 1, 1913.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:

 

 

Road No.

 

Type

 

Builder

 

C.N.

 

Date

 

Cyls.

 

Dri. Dia.

 

Engine

Wt.

 

Previous Ownership

 

Disposition

 

?

 

2-6-0

 

Baldwin

 

 

 

 

 

16x24

 

 

 

 

 

Unknown.

Tombigbee Valley #?

 

Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #352,

on 1/9/1904, in trade.

McGowin Mill Co. #1, Dyas, AL, on 6/12/1906.

 

20

 

4-6-0

 

Altoona

 

 

 

 

 

18x22

 

50

 

84800

 

Pennsylvania R.R. #

Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #232

Tombigbee Valley #20, on 1/9/1904.

Cost $3,500.

 

Georgia Locomotive Co. #31.

Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic #60,

on 5/28/1909.

 

21

 

2-4-2T

 

Porter

 

1160

 

4/1890

 

14x20

 

50

 

40000

 

Bessemer & Birmingham R.R. #6, Birmingham, AL

Birmingham Railway & Electric Co., Birmingham, AL

Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #243.

Tombigbee Valley #21, on 1/9/1904.

Cost $2,900.

 

Georgia Locomotive Co. #50.

William B. Lukens, Gainesville, GA,

on 11/8/1909.

 

22

 

2-4-2T

 

Porter

 

1161

 

4/1890

 

14x20

 

50

 

40000

 

Bessemer & Birmingham R.R. #7, Birmingham, AL

Birmingham Railway & Electric Co., Birmingham, AL

Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #240.

Tombigbee Valley #21, on 1/9/1904.

Cost $2,900.

 

Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co.

Byrne Lumber Co. #2 Peter C. Byrne, Dyas, AL, on 6/20/1906.

Hall-Leftwich Lumber Co. #2, Morriston, AL,

on 10/15/1906.

Scrapped 1917.

 

23

 

2-6-0

 

Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

17x24

 

 

 

 

 

Road #90.

Kilby Locomotive & Machine Works, Anniston, AL (dealer).

Tombigbee Valley #23, on 4/10/1905

 

No record.

 

24

 

4-6-0

 

Altoona

 

 

 

 

 

18x22

 

50

 

84800

 

Pennsylvania R.R. #

Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co.

Tombigbee Valley #24, on 11/9/1905.

 

No record.

 

25

 

4-6-0

 

Altoona

 

255

 

10/1874

 

18x22

 

50

 

84800

 

Pennsylvania R.R. #82.

Philadelphia & Erie #1070, in 3/1879.

Re. #2070 in 1882.

Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co.

Tombigbee Valley #25, on 4/26/1906.

 

No record.

 

30

 

2-6-0

 

Baldwin

 

31843

 

10/1907

 

17x24

 

48

 

100000

 

New. Cost $9,800.

Baldwin class 8-28 D 249

 

Alabama, Tennessee & Northern #30, on 5/1/1913.

 

41

 

4-4-0

 

New York

 

 

 

 

 

17x24

 

63

 

80000

 

Durham & Southern 2nd #103.

Georgia Locomotive Co. #37

Tombigbee Valley #41, in 9/1908.

 

No record.

                             

 

 

 

 

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