Editing Tuskegee, Alabama (section)

==Transportation==
[[U.S. Route 29]] and [[U.S. Route 80]] pass through Tuskegee. [[Alabama State Route 81|State Route 81]] goes north from the town. Four miles north up Route 81 is the interchange with [[Interstate 85]].

A short distance beyond I-85 is the hamlet of Chehaw, where [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] passenger trains made stops at the Western Railway of Alabama Depot. Into the mid-1960s both the Southern's ''[[Crescent (train)|Crescent]]'' and its ''[[Piedmont Limited]]'' made stops at the depot.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Western Railway of Alabama, Table 1 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=98 |issue=2 |date=July 1965}}</ref> The railway's ''[[Crescent (train)|Crescent]]'' was the last train to make stops at the station.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Western Railway of Alabama, Table 1 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=101 |issue=1 |date=June 1968}}</ref> The Southern Railway moved the train out in 1970 for a rerouting from an Atlanta-Montgomery-New Orleans itinerary to an Atlanta-Birmingham-New Orleans itinerary.