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Birmingham Rails The Last Golden Era From WW2 to Amtrak by Clemons & Key w/ DJ
Birmingham Rails The Last Golden Era From WW2 to Amtrak By Marvin Clemons & Lyle Key with foreword by Frank E Ardrey Jr
LIMITED EDition #408 of 1800 copies, signed
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
271 pages
Copyright 2007
Table Of Contents
dedication iv
foreword V
acknowledgmentsvii
prefaceviii
chapter 1 - Atlantic Coast Line Rr1
one Last Chance To Ride The Old Acl Through Bessemer 14
chapter 2 - Central Of Georgia Ry15
memories Of Woodlawn Junction 18
racin' The Sun, Chasin' The Moon 32
chapter 3 - Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Rr37
chapter 4 - Illinois Central Rr45
chapter 5 - Louisville & Nashville Rr55
the Humming Bird, Birmingham's First Post-war Streamliner 65
union Station/l&n Station 71
l&n's Last Sugar Bowl Special 75
chain Gang Dispatcher 79
chapter 6 - St. Louis - San Francisco Ry85
christmas In Cordova 105
switching The Hard Way On Frisco And Birmingham Belt In 1968 111
chapter 7 - Seaboard Air Line Rr117
chapter 8 - Southern Railway138
the Thanksgiving Day Wreck At Woodstock 165
chapter 9 - Industrial And Shortline Railroads 171
birmingham Industrial Railroads, 1946-1971 171
birmingham Southern Railroad 207
chapter 10 - Birmingham Terminal 213
flight Of The Redbirds 229
chapter 11 - Birmingham's Steam Revival236
chapter 12 - Birmingham Electric Co. 243
streetcar Map 245
remembering Robert W "bob" Kincey 251
epilogue: Then And Now255
map Appendix 262
DUST JACKET: Birmingham Rails features historical narrative, entertaining personal recollections, and hundreds of vivid color and black & white images from well-known photographers, along with those whose photos appear for the first time. As the first published pictorial of Birmingham railroads in the mid-20th century, Birmingham Rails will be a valuable resource for railroad enthusiasts, modelers, and anyone with an interest in the history of Birmingham and Alabama railroads. Here are just a few comments received from the rail press and preservation community about Birmingham Rails:
"Marvin Clemons and Lyle Key have done a marvelous job of crafting the ultimate pictorial story of Birmingham rail history. Their efforts take the story from earliest times to the modern era. Of all Southern cities to have had so many railroads and such an extensive network of lines, Birmingham deserves to have a volume of distinction like this one."- Jim Wrinn, Editor, Trains Magazine
"This book is a must for the thousands of Southern rail enthusiasts who, like me, were lured at an early age to Alabama's `Magic City'. Both visually and verbally, this volume is destined to become the premier reference source regarding what non-Southerners have often called the 'Pittsburgh of the
South'." - J. Parker Lamb, President, Railway &
Locomotive Historical Society
"Much of Birmingham's colorful railroad history would have been lost if not for this book. The authors bring to life an era when steel mills, steam, and early diesels made Birmingham go."
Don Phillips, Railroad and Aviation Journalist
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