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North Alabama Railroad Museum

HUNTSVILLE, AL

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About North Alabama Railroad Museum

The Mercury and Chase Railroad departs from the historic Chase Depot, a 1937 Union station, and traverses about 10 miles round‑trip from Normal east to Mt Carmel on the museum’s five‑mile right of way. Vintage ALCO S‑2, S‑4 and RSD‑1 diesel‑electrics pull two Budd stainless‑steel coaches, a 1927 Pullman heavyweight, and a 1943 Army‑built dining car.

📍 HUNTSVILLE, AL 34288

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History

The North Alabama Railroad Museum, Inc. (reporting mark NARM) incorporates in 1966 as an all‑volunteer nonprofit dedicated to preserving railroad history in North Alabama and South Central Tennessee. In 1984 the museum purchased a five‑mile segment of the former Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway line that CSX Transportation was abandoning between Huntsville and Winchester, Tennessee, providing the right‑of‑way on which its heritage railroad now operates. The museum’s Chase Depot, rebuilt in 1937, holds the distinction of having been the smallest Union station in the United States, a superlative that underscores the organization’s unique historic assets.

The Trains

The Mercury and Chase Railroad runs on the museum’s five‑mile right of way, offering roughly a 10‑mile round‑trip excursion that departs at Normal and proceeds east to Mt. Carmel. Its active roster includes three first‑generation ALCO diesel‑electric units—a pair of S‑2s, an S‑4 built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as number 1534, and an RSD‑1 originally built for the U.S. Army during the final months of World II—plus two stainless‑steel Budd coaches built in 1939 and 1940, a 1943 American Car and Foundry hospital‑car‑turned‑dining car, a 1927 Pullman heavyweight coach, and a 1924 ACF baggage car. Static displays feature a 1926 ALCO boxcab with a GE generator and Ingersoll‑Rand diesel engine, a 1928 railway post office car built for the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, and a 1947 Southern Railway caboose opened for visitors when volunteers are present.