Depot and Roundhouse: (
Satellite)
Helen Keller Birthplace: (
Satellite)
The turntable and roundhouse are on the right.
Randall Hampton
posted three photos with the comment:
Tuscumbia museum, Alabama
[Muscle Shoals area]
The founder of this railroad was Helen Keller's father.— in Tuscumbia, AL.
[Randall posted to a caboose group, thus the emphasis on cabooses.]
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The topo maps normally help me find a depot. In this case it cost me time because the location marked on this map as the Southern Station is just a
big clump of trees.
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| 1952/58 Tuscumbia Quad @ 24,000 |
And why have tracks to the downtown if this is not the depot? It has the bay window and train order signals of a depot.
Randall Hampton
posted seven photos with the comment:
The Tuscumbia Railway was founded in 1830 by Helen Keller's father. It was the first railroad built west of the Appalachians. Two years later, it grew into the Tuscumbia, Courtland, and Decatur, a bypass for cotton shipments around the rough waters of the Muscle Shoals area. There was a canal, but it was inadequate for the traffic. The line was acquired by Southern Railway and most of it is still operated by NS.
The surviving Tuscumbia station dates back to 1887 and has a small museum collection. The modern three stall roundhouse replica has no tracks inside. The Keller house is just a few blocks away, due north, and is open for tours.
NS Sheffield Yard is just a couple of miles to the east.— in Tuscumbia, AL.
Nick N Joyce Gardner: Yep......Asst. Div. Supt., George Montague's office was in that building when so many of us were sent to Sheffield, after the Tenn. River flooded in April 1972 .. We had a total of 7 washouts. Fortunately the new yard had been completed, but not yet open and we yarded several trains there.. At the time, I was an Asst. TM at Knoxville, but was sent there along with MANY others to help... When the new yard opened I was made TTM there, and stayed until 1975... Jim Greenwood was Div. Supt., and Paul Rudder was Div. Supt. on the adjoining Alabama Div..
[The comments contain a lot of history. "There were shops in Sheffield, after that town paid the railroad to relocate the mainline out of Tuscumbia and through Sheffield." [Bryan Turner comment on this post] That relocation explains why the depot was at the end of a spur.]
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Dale Proctor provided two photos with the comment: "Same building, 4/30/84."
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