Overview
The museum operates a heritage railroad that offers two excursion trains every Saturday from March - December. It also operates excursions on special dates such as Halloween and Christmas. The standard gauge train operates with a diesel locomotive on a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) section of former Louisville and Nashville Railroad track. The museum offers visitors the opportunity to ride in the cab of the locomotive and in a caboose in addition to the enclosed and open-air passenger cars.
Additionally, the museum operates a two foot gauge live steam engine locomotive and passenger cars on a one-quarter-mile long loop. This train served the nearby Birmingham Zoo for many years before being placed into operation at the museum.
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Interior historical displays at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum.
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The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum excursion train departs past the display of railroad signals.
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Woodward Iron Company No. 38 steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1924 and Alabama Power Company fireless steamer locomotive No.40 built by Davenport in 1953.
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Norfolk Southern, formerly Southern Railway rail crane and Whitcomb 25-ton diesel switcher.
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Electro-motive Division SW-1 switcher locomotive.
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