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| June - 2004 |
Old Alabama Rails announces availability for sale of new decals in HO and N scales for L&N freight steam engines and West Point Route (A&WP and WofA) USRA 2-8-2 Mikados. To view these decals, visit our new Products section.
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| February - 2004 |
Mr. J.T. Norton passed away on February 12, 2004 at his home in Montgomery. He was outside and had a heart attack. He is featured in “A Montgomery Railroad Worker Album”. He was a switchman for A&WP then CSX. He retired a few days before he had forty five years of service in 1981. He was known and liked by many and will be missed as a railman, neighbor and friend!
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A new addition titled Postcards of the West Point Route has been added to the Historical sketch section. The new section contains postcards from the west point route from the 1900's.
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A New article from the Montgomery Advertiser, titled "New transportation authority suggested" has been added to the "In The Press" section.
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A Civic Links heading and 4 links have been added to the links page
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A new drawing, the old L&N freight house, has been added to the Modelers Forum in the Central Alabama Drawings from ICC Valuations section.
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| January - 2004 |
| A New article from the Montgomery Advertiser, titled "Group studies creek" has been added to the "In The Press" section. |
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| June - 2003 |
| The Tales & Memories section has been updated with an article by Bud Wilson entitled Growing Up in the St. Clair Station. |
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| April - 2003 |
| The Historical Sketches section has been updated with a new article by Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Ph.D., titled Jim Crow Cars. |
A Genealogical Research heading and link have been added to the links page
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| March - 2003 |
| The Modelers Forum has been updated with two PDF Central Alabama Drawings from ICC Valuations. |
3 new articles from the Mongomery Advertiser have been added to the "In The Press" section.
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| December - 2002 |
Route maps from as far back as 1883 have been added to the Historical Sketches section for several of the railroads.
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The Modelers Forum section has been updated. Photos and captions have been added to the Models HO section.
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The HAER section has been renamed the Modelers Forum. In this section, Old Alabama Rails invites modelers to submit photographs of their work for display on this website. Our goal is to inspire creativity and commitment to modeling railroading in the Deep South in all scales, hence this is not a contest but a showcase
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| September - 2002 |
| One New Photo Album has been added to the Photo Album page under the "Featured Photographers" section named "A M. Lewis Kennedy Album". |
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| August - 2002 |
| Two New Albums have been added to the Photo Album section. One album is titled "A Montgomery Railroad Worker Album", the other is "Mystery Photos". |
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| April - 2002 |
| A New Album has been added to the Photo Album section titled "H.H. Foreman: His Work and His Family". |
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| March - 2002 |
| A New article from the Montgomery Advertiser, titled "Opportunity rides on rails" has been added to the "In The Press" section. |
| A New Album has been added to the Photo Album section titled "A David W. Salter Album". |
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| February - 2002 |
Two New articles have been added to the "In The Press" section.
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| You can now contact politicians and urge them to help support the Old Alabama Rails restoration efforts!! |
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| January - 2002 |
| New photos have been added to the Photo Album under the "Nookey Davis" section. |
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| December - 2001 |
The Photo Album Section has been updated with new photos for "The Alcazar Shrine Train."
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The Tales & Memories section has been updated with the story of J. Leon Pugh.
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| November - 2001 |
| The Tales & Memories section has been updated with the story of "Horace 'Hoss' Stevens". |
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| September - 2001 |
| The conceptual plan for The Western of Alabama Festival Center in Montgomery, Alabama, as developed by Barry Howard Limited of Malibu, California, is now online! Click here (or click "The Raipark Project" on the navigation bar) to see what's in store for the future! |
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| February - 2001 |
| City of Montgomery Master Planning: The Sasaki Group is approaching completion of its plan for Downtown and Riverfront Development. OAR plans for developing the WofA Shops as a major attraction is an important feature of both scenarios for the development of North Montgomery. |
| Union Station Development: In connection with a Federal grant with which the City has completed a restoration of Union Station's grand passenger shed (1897), plans are now underway to fulfill the transportation museum component of the grant. OAR Board members are working closely with City officials to coordinate the development of this project with the WofA Shops project. This is a key development that, if well-implemented, will facilitate Montgomery-Selma excursions, and excursions to east Montgomery. |
| OAR joins forces with the Lightning Route Centennial Committee: For over 15 years, a Montgomery lawyer, Craig Cornwell, and members of the Lightning Route Centennial Committee have built a successful track record of support and action (rubber-tired tourist trolleys) in the City. New routes have been formed that carry visitors to important historic and tourist sites in downtown Montgomery. OAR and the Lightning Route forces are now working together to advocate the return of a rail trolley, and the use of the Union Station Shed as a multi-modal facility for a variety of rail activities. |
| New photos uncovered: OAR has recently received a set of slides taken in 1960-61 by "Nookey" Davis, a former WofA Shops employee. Several of these are aerial shots that have permitted us the most complete view to date of the shops when they were in use. Look for some of these views to appear by early March on this website. |
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| December - 2000 |
The City of Montgomery recently hired the Sasaki Group (Boston, MA) to prepare a master plan for Downtown and Riverfront Development. OAR's proposals to be a major cultural attraction in this plan have been well-received thus far. The plan should be complete by April, 2001.
Plans are underway for a major effort to interview former employees of Montgomery railroads, the Tuskegee RR, and the Birmingham & Southeastern RR this coming summer (2001). The project will include a particular effort to discover and interview former black employees, though it will include any former employees, directors, or managers as the time frame will permit. We expect to get lots of good stories out of this!
Barry Howard Limited is developing the site plan for OAR as well as the initial cost estimates for development.
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