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This is a waterfall in a wonderful park in Tuscumbia, Alabama. It's just around the corner from Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller lived....and learned.
I'm pretty sure this is manmade, but it sure was pretty. :-)
BTW, this is one of the poorest jobs of adding a sky I've done. Here's a tip for you.....working around plants/trees when you're doing your clipping path is hard. I may have feathered the edges a little too much, too. Ah well, here it is. :-)
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Digging through archives.....taken on vacation.
Formerly working at the Colbert Steam Plant for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), this 44-Ton switcher now is on display at Alabama's Tuscumbia Railways.
Coldwater Stagecoach Stop in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Built as early as 1815, this small hewn-log cabin served as a stagecoach stop on the Jackson Military Road and is believed to be one of several cabins operated as a hotel by Michael Dickson, the first white settler to Tuscumbia. The original name of the town was Coldwater. Cold and clear water came out of a nearby spring.
I had been wanting to chase something along the NA line for a couple of years (I traveled the stretch of the line between Tuscumbia and Natural Bridge fairly often for work throughout 2023). That finally came to fruition this past weekend while I was in Decatur for the River City Rail Club's annual spring Railwatch event. While most railfans knew train 975 (the Safety Train) would be in Huntsville starting on May 5, most expected the train to run the Memphis East District from Chattanooga. I found out Friday morning that 975 would be running north from Birmingham via the NA District instead. I wound up chasing the train from Spruce Pine to Sheffield Yard.
Norfolk Southern 975 features specially equipped classroom box cars and several specially equipped tank cars. The train is part of Norfolk Southern’s Operation Awareness & Response (OAR) program. Launched in 2015, the goal of OAR is to educate the public about the importance of the safe movement of hazardous materials by rail and to connect emergency first responders in Norfolk Southern communities with information and training resources. The program provides in-depth, hands-on training for first responders across the Norfolk Southern’s 22-state network, covering a variety of crucial topics, including hazardous materials handling, rail operations, and emergency response techniques.
Littleville, Alabama
May 2, 2025
Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,
Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;
Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
A view of the old church in Tuscumbia Missouri, from my archives. This old beauty burned to the ground a while back. I wish I had taken the opportunity to take more shots of it.
Christmas at the Keller home.
Helen Keller Birth Place
300 N Commons Street West
Tuscumbia, AL 35674-1134
(256) 383-4066
Formerly working at the Colbert Steam Plant for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), this 44-Ton switcher now is on display at Alabama's Tuscumbia Railways.
Spring Park is Tuscumbia's most popular park. It is located in downtown Tuscumbia, just south of the central business district. Spring Park consists of a large spring forming a lake which supplies the city's drinking water.
Norfolk Southern train 975, the safety train, makes its way up the NA District between Littleville and Tuscumbia, Alabama. The train is enroute to Huntsville, where it will host a series of first responder classes over the next week.
Norfolk Southern 975 features specially equipped classroom box cars and several specially equipped tank cars. The train is part of Norfolk Southern’s Operation Awareness & Response (OAR) program. Launched in 2015, the goal of OAR is to educate the public about the importance of the safe movement of hazardous materials by rail and to connect emergency first responders in Norfolk Southern communities with information and training resources. The program provides in-depth, hands-on training for first responders across the Norfolk Southern’s 22-state network, covering a variety of crucial topics, including hazardous materials handling, rail operations, and emergency response techniques.
Hunter, Alabama
May 2, 2025
Former home to Morris Motors AMC (American Motors Corporation) dealership in downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama. The covered over parts in the front were once display windows for the newest model AMC automobile models.
Painted up as USMC 1775 boxcar, this United States Marine Corps waycar rests at Tuscumbia Railways in Alabama.
3-7-15 Tuscumbia, AL. NS train 732 snakes through the s-curve cut, while also cresting a grade. Train 732 originates in the Powder River and is heading for the Scherer Power Plant in Georgia.
Video from the day: youtu.be/yg8gRHevgVE?si=-DtXBacpDoaK3wNY
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The North Alabama Abstract & Guaranty real estate title insurance company has been in operation since 1905 and working from this building since 1926. In downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama.
The childhood of Helen Keller had an outdoor kitchen. This window, at one time opened into the outdoor kitchen. The other end of the building is the live in servant’s quarters. I found the haphazard crudeness compelling. Tuscumbia, Alabama.
NS 9828 charges up the small grade near the community of Valdosta AL outside of Tuscumbia AL. The 9828 still sports its Auto start equipped sticker from many moons ago albeit faded and hardly legible
The Promenade Formal Wear shop and The Coldwater Seed & Supply Store on E.6th Street in downtown Tuscumbia. Founded in 1924, Coldwater is the oldest seed and supply store in the state of Alabama.
Waving slowly in the heat of a summer day in the deep south, it seems to go on forever, silently mesmerizing anyone who takes the time to notice.
UP 8518 is the one unit wonder on point for NS 28Z sporting the new UP Paint scheme this is one of the few repainted units out and about. I don't mind the large shield on the nose but the flag looks awful and resembles clipart way too much.
The Rosenbaum House. A single-family home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built for Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in Florence, Alabama in 1940. The only Wright building in Alabama.
Here you are looking at the side of the house -- the front entrance is to the right facing the street. The street that I am standing on to take the photo probably didn't exist until much later in the life of the house.
The Rosenbaum House was one of the first Usonian houses designed by Wright. Wright considered the Usonian to be a house for middle income people owing to their moderate size.
The Rosenbaum family managed to keep all of the Wright-designed elements in the house intact including the original furniture. Truly an amazing house and a wonderful preservation of Wright's heritage.