History: Early Days

Alabama and Florida Railroad is chartered to run from Pensacola to Pollard, Alabama, to connect with an Alabama line to Montgomery.
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Pensacola & Mobile Railroad & Manufacturing Company is chartered. Service begins in 1862 between Cantonment and Muscogee mills; its tracks are taken within a year by Confederate officials in Civil War.
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Alabama and Florida Railroad begins service from Pensacola to Montgomery via Pollard, Alabama. Its tracks are pulled up a year later by retreating Confederates in Civil War.
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Pensacola and Louisville Railroad is chartered, buys A&F line at bankruptcy, connects in 1869 in Alabama at Flomaton instead of Pollard.
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Pensacola & Perdido Railroad is formed under a special act of the Florida Legislature.
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P&MR&M Company restores service from Cantonment to Muscogee mills and beyond into Baldwin County, Alabama.
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Pensacola Railroad, financed by Louisville & Nashville Railroad, chartered to take over P&L assets.
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L&N Railroad purchases Pensacola/P&L/A&F line and begins freight and passenger service from Pensacola northward.
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