From the rivers and streams to the aerospace industry, Alabama's transportation is constantly growing and evolving.
A couple years after the launch of the first steamboat, Alabama began the development of railroad transportation.
In addition, railroads played a major part in the agriculture, politics, and businesses of Alabama.
Wilbur and Orville Wright formed the first landing sight in Alabama, which is now known as the Maxwell Air Force Base.
With major sites of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Redstone Arsenal located in Hunstville, Alabama, Alabama's aerospace industry consists of four sectors: space, defense, aviation, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul.
[1] Barge transportation in and out of the Port of Tuscaloosa and other commercial navigation make the Black Warrior River useful in the state of Alabama.