Alabama Great Southern Railroad

Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Overview
Reporting markAGS
LocaleChattanooga, TN-Meridian, MS (New Orleans, LA from 1969)
Dates of operation1877–present
SuccessorSouthern Railway
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Previous gauge
originally built as 5 ft (1,524 mm) and converted to
4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm) in 1886.[1]
Length1,084 miles (1,745 km)
AGS locomotive from the August 1905 Railway and Locomotive Engineering magazine

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad (reporting mark AGS) is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS),[2] running southwest from Chattanooga (where it connects with the similarly owned Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway) to New Orleans through Birmingham and Meridian. The AGS also owns about a 30% interest in the Canadian Pacific Kansas City-controlled Meridian-Shreveport Meridian Speedway.[3]

In 1970 AGS reported 3854 million net ton-miles (5627 million net tonne-kilometers) of revenue freight and 105 million passenger miles (169 million passenger kilometers); at the end of that year it operated 528 miles (850 km) of road and 1,084 miles (1,745 km) of track. (Those totals do not include Class II subsidiary Louisiana Southern.)

  1. ^ "The Days They Changed the Gauge".
  2. ^ Annual Report of Norfolk Southern Combined Railroad Subsidiaries to the Surface Transportation Board for the Year Ended December 31, 2007 Archived September 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, p. 13
  3. ^ Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Form 10-K Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007