gone and the railroad received permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to no longer operate. Trains were salvaged and warehouses were built where the depot was demolished after some of the property was sold. 1978 Literature Ralph Ellison wrote The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience about a jazz musician playing a street performance in the Great Depression. The setting used was the Chehaw Station of the Tuskegee Railroad. Line Stations Chehaw (Junction with Montgomery and West Point Railroad (Old Chehaw Rd) The line is connected to Western Railway of Alabama Tuskegee 6 The train made three round trips, one at night. It took about 1 hour and thirty minutes to go one way. Rolling stock In 1876 the railway had one 10-ton-locomotive, 1 passenger car and 3 freight cars of all classes. Between 1888 through 1916 the Tuskegee Railroad Company had two locomotives, one to two passenger car and a baggage and mail car. The only surviving locomotive, 101, a 2-6-2, was donated to the Illinois Railway Museum where it would serve as the museum's mainline locomotive until 1989. References Railway services discontinued in 1963 Rail freight transportation in the United States Defunct Alabama railroads Railway companies established in 1860 Railway companies disestablished in 1963 American companies disestablished in 1963 American companies established in 1860