The often-overlooked Huntsville Division was actually a series
of branch lines that tied together to form the division. Division
Timetable #124, effective as of May 22, 1949, featured a fleet of
mixed trains.
Starting
with the Sparta Branch, one could roam from Sparta to Tullahoma
on Mixed Freights #184-185 every day but Sunday taking a leisurely
4-hour crawl through 61 miles of NC territory. The pace was even
still more leisurely on the Lewisburg Branch where the 67-mile trip
between Decherd and Lewisburg would run you about 5 hours on Daily
(except Sunday) Mixed Freights #146-147. There was a second Mixed
Freight #148-149 that served Decherd to Elora.
The Huntsville Branch offered a mixed freight between Elora and
Hobbs Island/Incline (#148 and #149) except on Sundays. The NC offered
no passenger service on its barge line nor was there any passenger
service into Gadsden. One scheduled-freight (#199-200) ran between
Guntersville and Gadsden. The L&N used the NC's track (a little
over 2 miles) between L&N Junction and Moragne, Alabama, for
a daily passenger train - #85-86 as well as Freights #55-56, 86-87,
90-91 and 93-94. The often-overlooked Huntsville Division was actually
a series of branch lines that tied together to form the division.
Division Timetable #124, effective as of May 22, 1949, featured
a fleet of mixed trains.
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