Keywords: birmingham railroad iron steel map The Birmingham Mineral Railroad (BMAL or BMRR), sometimes called the Birmingham Mineral Branch, or the L & N Mineral Railroad was a common-carrier railroad line opened in 1884 by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad on Red Mountain and across Jones Valley, encircling the city of Birmingham. It was a branch of the North & South Alabama Railroad, one of the two trunk railroads whose crossing established the location for the founding of the city of Birmingham in 1871. (source: www.bhamwiki.com/w/File:Bham_Mineral_RR_1930.png) The Birmingham Mineral Railroad (BMAL or BMRR), sometimes called the Birmingham Mineral Branch, or the L & N Mineral Railroad was a common-carrier railroad line opened in 1884 by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad on Red Mountain and across Jones Valley, encircling the city of Birmingham. It was a branch of the North & South Alabama Railroad, one of the two trunk railroads whose crossing established the location for the founding of the city of Birmingham in 1871. (source: www.bhamwiki.com/w/File:Bham_Mineral_RR_1930.png) |