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The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (initialised HOD, reporting mark HODX) is the official state railroad museum of Alabama. Dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and operation of historically significant railway equipment, the museum is located at 1919 Ninth Street, Calera, Alabama, on I-65 approximately south of Birmingham.〔http://www.hodrrm.org/ Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum〕 The museum features a wide range of locomotives, cars and other railroad equipment that dates from the 19th century to the 1950s and operates regularly scheduled excursions with museum equipment over the museum’s track. It also features two depots that are approximately 100 years old. == 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 section of the former Alabama Mineral Railroad, a division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 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 narrow gauge live steam engine locomotive and passenger cars on a long loop. This train served the nearby Birmingham Zoo for many years before being placed into operation at the museum. File:HodIMG 3054.JPG|Interior historical displays at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. File:HodIMG 3031.JPG | The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum excursion train departs past the display of railroad signals. File:HODIMG 3016.JPG | 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. File:HODIMG 3013.JPG | Norfolk Southern (formerly Southern Railway) rail crane and Whitcomb 25-ton diesel switcher. File:HODIMG 3004.JPG | Electro-motive Division SW-1 switcher locomotive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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