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This is a list of Confederate Railroads in operation or used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. See also Confederate railroads in the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1]
This lack of inter-railway connections rendered many railroads useless once the Union blockade was in place. Second, there was a break of gauge issue: much of the Confederate rail network used the 5 ft (1,524 mm) broad gauge, while much of North Carolina and Virginia used the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.
Confederate States of America: 1861–1865: Confederation of States: Confederation [citation needed] established by several southern slave states that seceded from the Union. It comprised 11 states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.
Swiss BLS BLS Re4 class electric locomotive. Austria Graz-Köflacher Eisenbahn (GKB); Salzburger Lokalbahn (SLB); Steiermärkische Landesbahnen (STLB); Zillertalbahn (ZB); Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút (GySEV) – Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurth-Eisebahnen (ROeEE)
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 5, 1865. [8]
In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities. Particularly in many European countries beginning in the late-1980s, with privatizations and the separation of the track ownership and management from running the trains, there are now many track-only companies and train-only companies.
Map of the Confederate States with names and borders of states A Confederate state was a U.S. state that declared secession and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The Confederacy recognized them as constituent entities that shared their sovereignty with the Confederate government. Confederates were recognized as citizens of both the federal republic and of ...
Andrews was told that Confederate Railway officials in Chattanooga had been notified by Confederate Army officials that Mitchel was approaching Chattanooga from Stevenson, Alabama, intending to either capture or lay siege to the city, and as a result of this warning, the Confederate Military Railways had ordered the Special Freight movements ...