While travelling between two locations at work today I saw the signs of an old railroad track paralleling my path. It had been raining for sometime and the water was high in the creeks. As I passed over one creek I saw the timbers of an old trestle. I paused to take a picture and did a little research and turns out I was beside the Alabama, Tennessee, and Northern Railroad. It was build in the late 1890s and early 1900s. It went from the Gulf Coast to Aliceville, Al. It was eventually bought by the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway commonly called the FRISCO. The Frisco allowed it to run as it’s own independent company for many years. The line was abandoned in 1971, but as late as 1984 it still appeared on USGS TOPO maps labeled under the Frisco’s new owner, Burlington Northern. Today all that remains is a visible path, some gravel and the former bent piers of the Trestle supports.