Ridin' the Rails in Shelby

Motor Car at Shelby Iron, originally uploaded by JB @ Shelby Iron.

Gary Garner pilots the motor car over the rails during the Shelby Iron Works Festival. Once known as the "Alabama Mineral Line", a rail connection between Calera and Blue Mountain, then back west to Birmingham, was a busy freight and passenger corridor. The section of track shown here has been re-established by the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (Calera & Shelby Rail Road), as a part of the eventual return of the trains to Shelby.