The Western Railway of Alabama puchased two 4-8-2s from the American Locomotive Company in 1920 to pull its passenger trains. The "Mountains" were given road numbers 180 and 181 and they had 27 x 28 cylinders, 69" drivers, a boiler pressure of 210 psi, a tractive effort 52,920 and each weighed 316,000 pounds.

Number 181 was scrapped in 1952 and 180 in 1954.