The Carrolton Short Line Railway was chartered in 1897. By 1906, when its name was changed to the Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad, it had built a line from Reform Ala., through Carrollton to Aliceville and was pushing slowly down the western edge of Alabama towards the Gulf of Mexico. The company underwent foreclosure and reorganization in 1918, and by 1920, the road reached Calvert, Ala., where the Southern Railway offered a connection to Mobile.
in 1928 AT&N completed its own line from Calvert to Mobile and that same year entered an agreement with the St. Louis-San Fransisco Railway (which had just built a line from Aberdeen Miss., to Pensacola Fla., making a connection with AT&N at Aliceville) for joint handling of through traffic between the Port of Mobile and points on the Frisco.
The AT&N's finances were again reorganized in October 1944. On Dec. 28th, 1948, Frisco purchased 97.2 percent of AT&N's common stock (later increasing its holdings to 100 percent) and unified AT&N's operations with its own. The Alabama, Tennessee & Northern was merged with the Frisco on January 1st, 1971. Frisco itself became part of the Burlington Northern on September 21st, 1980. The line was abandoned in the 1980s in favor of trackage rights to Mobile on Norfolk Southern rails. AT&N's terminal trackage in Mobile is still in operation.
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