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The
Alabama Central Railroad Company, incorporated in 1906 in Walker County, Alabama. It's The Old A.C.’s
retired steam engine No.29 now resides in Dora at the Alabama Mining Museum,
and once stood on the hillside next to the present girls dorm on the
Walker College Campus of Bevill State Community College. The Railroad
Depot was located at the end of Alabama Avenue in downtown Jasper
on 19th Street. The train made daily
runs to the Marigold Tipple at Manchester, waited while many coal cars
were filled with coal, then returned to downtown Jasper, passing right
in front of Farmstead School. Many teenage
boys used to hop the train, which always traveled at a very slow speed,
and ride to Farmstead where they would jump off and be picked up by
friends, a pastime that would likely not be tolerated today. People from Birmingham and other areas, frequently drove to Jasper in the waning days of the
steam engine, just to watch No. 29 leave the station. |
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