Birmingham Rails
Links Page
(Contact jstew@bhamrails.info to submit links!)
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AISI Learning Center |
The American Iron and Steel Institute's Learning Center. Reading material and some great graphics you will like. This will help explain what all this technology is about and how the pieces fit. |
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The Wrecking Crew |
Birmingham area model rail club. |
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Steel City Division - NMRA |
Birmingham area chapter of the National Model Railroad Association. |
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NC&StL Preservation Society Inc |
OK -- Not from Birmingham, but operated in Alabama. These folks have a good project, and personal favorite of mine! |
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Friends of the Railroad District |
Celebrate Birmingham's railroad heritage and plan for downtown improvements |
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Sloss Furnace Landmark |
Birmingham's blast furnace museum |
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Birmingham Historical Society |
Another great source of local history |
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National Register -- Jefferson County, AL |
Information on buildings and other items |
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Redstone Model RR Club |
Huntsville based group with a very good newsletter covering a broad range of topics including local history. |
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Dale's Alabama Rail Pics |
Good site, well done, and lot's of contemporary railroad pictures |
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Craig's Model Railroad |
Craig Gardener's model railroad site. Nice freelanced contemporary layout located in the Birmingham area with southeast/coal theme. |
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Chuck's Railroads of Southwest Missouri |
For Frisco Fans and other Fanatic Ferroequinologists... |
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Shelby Co. Site of ALGenWeb |
Nice historical and genealogical site of local interest |
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Shelby Ironworks, Shelby Co., AL |
One of the historical sites around Birmingham |
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Brierfield Iron Furnace |
One of the historical sites around Birmingham |
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A great historical site and park. Fun to visit. Stone furnace has been rebuilt and was actually in blast several years ago. |
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Mine Safety & Health Administration's link to these local museums which do not have their own web sites. |
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ACL & SAL Historical Society |
Includes information on the Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast RR on of the "fallen flags" that served Birmingham. Thanks to Larry Goolsby, one of the officers for the link tip. |
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Peach Creek Shops |
Check out the "Steel Mill Project and Kits" portion of this hobby shop web site. |
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The Iron Belt |
This website contains images of a model steel mill. |
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Columbia River Steel Corporation |
From Peach Tree Shops: Model RR web site with on-line "heavy steel" model project that you might enjoy. |
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The Railroad Industries Special Interest Group |
An independent, non-profit group focused on industrial railroading, affiliated with the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) -- Check out the links for great models. |
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Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Penna. |
Ok, it's not Birmingham, but a very interesting web site about coal mining. I found some of my ancestors here. |
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Hudson Model RR Club |
Nice model railroad organization in the steel mill business |
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Birmingham Terminal Division Layout |
Ken McElreath's very interesting layout highlighting the Birmingham industrial heritage, and located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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Alabama Rail Directory |
These are good current resources from the Alabama Dept. of Transportation's Multi Modal Bureau. This page contains links enabling one to download these and save them for reference. (Large files take time.) |
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Sadly, Alex Nuckols recently passed away in Birmingham, AL. He was a good friend and a wonderful historical investigator and resource. He will be greatly missed. [8/30/08, Birmingham Rails] |
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A digital reference library produced by the Alabama Historic Ironworks Commission in cooperation with The Iron and Steel Museum of Alabama |
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Little River Railroad |
This is a museum project in Townsend, TN, in the Smokey's. It's a good website and preservation project. |
