My daughter has liked trains since she was two years old, so I got into trains. Our first train was one of those battery powered trains that people buy to go around their Christmas tree. Then I began to dabble in modeling trains, and I put together a set of trains for Hannah's fifth birthday with a custom decorated steam engine and caboose. I don't believe we have missed any years that we haven't rode on a train somewhere. We have rode excursion trains in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina (Tweetise Railroad pictured).

One of my daughter's favorite place to go in Huntsville, is the old Southern Depot. When she was little she loved to ring the bell on the old steam engine and play in the Norfolk Western caboose.  Even now she loves to go and look around.

My favorite railroad is the old Southern Railroad.  Following are a few Southern Railway related web sites that I have found. If you know of any others, please let me know. jpkilpat@hiwaay.net

Southern Railway Historical Association	Central of Georgia Historical Society
The Southern Railway System	Central of Georgia History
Southern Railfan	Norfolk and Western Historical Society
Larry Puckets The Southern Railway System Page	Norfolk and Western Historical Photos
The Track Gang's Southern Railway Page	Last Run of the NS 611
Southern Railway (the best I've found):	Norfolk & Southern Corp. Page

	Here are some places we enjoyed visiting, visit their web sites to learn more about them:
Tennessee Valley Railroad	Tennessee Central Railway
Great Smokey Mountain Railroad	Tweetsie Railroad
Casey Jones Museum	Blue Ridge Scenic Railway

Here are some places we hope to visit soon:

Steam Town:	Spencer Transportation Museum:
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park:	North Alabama Railroad Museum:
Virginia Museum of Transportation:	Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum:

Here are some model train and railfan resources link pages:

Kalmbach's Trains On-Line	Bill McAllister's Links
Tourist Railroad & Railroad Museum List	Walther's On-Line
Railfan.net

Here are some Rail History and Rail Pictures pages:

Railroad Historical Societies	Rick's Train Page
Rich Clarks Railroad Photo Page	Rick's Train Pics Link Page
Steam Engines	A beautiful engine.Unofficial Homepage of the Royal Hudson
Casey Jones

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