Booksigning:  Thursday, October 4th from 5 - 7 pm

Birmingham Rails is the first publication devoted exclusively to pictorial coverage of the Birmingham railroad district in the mid-20th century. Co-authors Marvin Clemons and Lyle Key both grew up in Birmingham during the railroads' "last golden era" after World War II, and their collaboration provides a detailed and colorful account of Birmingham railroads over three decades culminating with the coming of Amtrak in the early 1970's. 
 
Birmingham Rails promises to be an indispensable reference for rail enthusiasts, hobbyists, and anyone with an interest in Birmingham and Alabama railroad history. 

"Marvin Clemons and Lyle Key have done a marvelous job of crafting the ultimate pictorial story of Birmingham rail history. Their efforts take the story from earliest times to the modern era. Of all Southern cities to have had so many railroads and such an extensive network of lines, Birmingham deserves to have a volume of distinction like this one." 

-- Jim Wrinn, Editor, Trains Magazine

"This book is a must for the thousands of Southern rail enthusiasts who, like me, were lured at an early age to Alabama's 'Magic City.' Both visually and verbally, this volume is destined to become the premier reference source regarding what non-Southerners have often called the 'Pittsburgh of the South'."

--  J. Parker Lamb, President, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society