Attalla is partnering with Norfolk Southern’s 21st Century Steam Program and the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum to offer two steam rail excursions to Birmingham and Chattanooga, Tenn., according to Lisa Turner, director of the city’s Information and Development Center.
Turner said previous rail excursions with the museum were very popular and sold out quickly.
November 9th to or from Chattanooga, with a chartered bus to Chattanooga or back to Attalla.
Excursion will use Steam Engine Locomotive 630.
Tickets are $65 each for standard coach seating and return charter bus service.
The train will consist of standard coach cars with air conditioning and large picture windows for viewing the scenery, and a commissary car selling light food items and souvenirs.
Saturday Nov 9, 2013
4:30 AM - 8:00 PM CST
November 9th (Morning and afternoon trips available, see times below)
The morning trip will leave Attalla by charter bus at 4:30am in route to TVRM's Grand Junction Station at (4119 Cromwell Road in Chattanooga), Departure time from Grand Junction Station is 7am Central Time. The train will arrive in Attalla at 10:45am for a 2-hour 15 minute layover. The afternoon train will depart Attalla at 1pm in route to Grand Junction Station and the charter bus will return from Chattanooga to Attalla about 8pm.
Corner of Fifth Avenue NW and Third Street NW at 12:15pm, City of Attalla
$85.00
Kerri Griffin
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