Subj: [ParanormalGhostSociety] Birmington Alabama's Investigation Report.... 
Date: 5/28/2006 10:51:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: LordOfThyNight@aol.com
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Dixie Railroad
 
I will tell you visiting a state you know nothing about can be very eerie. Alabama is very beautiful but also very vacant in some areas especially the further you stray from the city. I went to this small town it was pretty far down a highway eventually pulling into the Calera Railroad Depot.
 
We started off at a railroad platform with at ticket booth and crossed the road over to this old steam locomotive. Actually it was a train yard with at least 50 different trains and train cars. I was in heaven but at this point I was exhausted I really was not in the mood to climb. I went up on a few engines, in a caboose, stood on a few passenger cars but most of them were chained up or badly rusted to a point that there were holes in the floors.
 
There were about 5 to 6 rows of trains and this time James was with me so we basically went row by row taking photos. I felt so watched from all the rail cars it was so overwhelming. I mean many windows were broke or cars were torn up. I seen this one car that was like 100 feet it was pretty interesting. We seen cars from the Montana Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, The Airforce, Calera Railroad etc etc We also seen a couple cabooses and one steam locomotive we were able to climb on into it and look at its furnace.
 
We also found a single person type of rail car, a crane car and one of the large freight engines I have ever seen. I mean this thing had to be almost twice as tall as a CSX engine. It was a lot of fun walking around seeing all the different types of train cars. There was even a historical plaque which talked about the history of the rail yard.
 
After this we headed on over too one of the two train depots. The first one was dimly lit probably was the passenger depot not sure though.   We did cross the road back to the other depot to an area where many rail cars had been restored. They had a couple tour trains for the public some of them still operate like the Calera Railroad. There was a party car and most cars were silver in color and very long.
 
We came to an area where we seen all kinds of railroad crossings, train wheels, and old luggage carts. We walked around for awhile checking out the outside of the station and rail cars. There were many tracks leading on off in the eerie woods. I honestly loved the historical aspect and I do think everybody here is going to enjoy the photos from this investigation not so much ghost photos but seeing the old engines and cars.
 
Afterwards we passed by the train museums store and gazebo back to the car. I have a bad exhaust manifold gasket leak so I had to patch that up unfortunately a hick cop drove by seen me and questioned me. She was nice but in my opinion plain old dumb asking me what I am doing as if she could not see me with the hood up working on the car. After she ran my record and it came up clean she let me go.
 
On my way out of the train museum there was an accident which ended up detouring me for 30 more miles I almost ended up in Montgomery not good trust me. I think there was a dead body out on the ramp which was thrown from a pick up truck. There was debris all over and a tractor trailer involved not good believe me.
 
 James and I were trying to find three plantation homes to investigate on the way to the hotel. Unfortunately it was a bad night as it is and the first one we found had a guard dog, the second was occupied and the third one we just could not find so after a night of driving over a 100 miles we just gave up. James was a really good navigator though not bad for a 9 year old boy.
 
After a few hours of rest time it was time for me to head out on the road to head for headquarters and make one last stop.