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.
The Birmingham excursion will be Sept. 12 and is a one-way trip with return to Attalla by charter bus.
The second trip is a one-way trip on Nov. 9 to or from Chattanooga, with a chartered bus to Chattanooga or back to Attalla.
Both excursions will use Steam Engine Locomotive 630.
For the Attalla-to-Birmingham excursion, the train is scheduled to arrive in Attalla about 11:15 a.m.
Passengers will board at the vacant lot beside the underpass at the corner of Fifth Avenue NW and Third Street NW at 12:15 p.m., with the train leaving at 12:30 p.m.
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.
The train will travel over Norfolk Southern’s Alabama Division main line, which began as the Alabama Great Southern Railway.
Passengers will unload at the former site of the Old Southern Terminal Station in downtown Birmingham.
This route has not carried passengers since a Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum excursion, using a chartered Amtrak train, traveled the line in 1999.
Arrival in Birmingham is expected about 2:45 p.m., and the return to Attalla will be about 6 p.m. after a stop for dinner.
Thursday Sep 12, 2013
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
September 12th, 2013
Train is scheduled to arrive in Attalla at 11:15am, Passengers will board at 12:15pm, and the train will leave Attalla at 12:30pm, arriving in Birmingham at 2:45pm.
Corner of Fifth Avenue NW and Third Street NW at 12:15pm.
$65.00
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