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The "Dummy" proceeds west down Broad Street (now University Boulevard) past the Post Office/ City Hall building. The Dummy trains were so noisy, they could be heard from one end of town to the other. The line circled the city and went out to…

One year before this photo of Kate Jemison was published in a 1899 Tuscaloosa Times there was a day of gaiety and celebration because of the completion of the Montgomery division of the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Jemison was the sponsor who was to…

Advertisement for Old South Coaches found in the 1930 Corolla, The University of Alabama yearbook.

The Corolla, v. 37, 1930

This photo was taken circa 1925 and shows the "Doodle Bug" coming from Northport, Alabama.

The Mobile & Ohio (M&O) Railroad trestle is a wooden and steel truss bridge that was constructed across the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa for the M&O…

The trolley is shown on Broad Street (now University Boulevard). Behind the trolley in the building with the white awning is the Charles Black Company, a clothing store. To its left is the Merchants Bank and Trust building. At the other end of the…

This station was later called the Alabama Great Southern Depot when the railroad companies were joined. It was located at 2105 Greensboro Avenue where the current (2017) Amtrak Station is located. This building was replaced with the current…

The Kellerman bus carried passengers from Kellerman to Tuscaloosa over unpaved roads. Kellerman, located north of Brookwood, AL, in Tuscaloosa County, was once a thriving mining town with about 40,000 residents and even a hotel. When the mine closed,…

Modes of transportation merge in this photo with the Dummy Line train proceeding east on Broad Street (now University Boulevard), a horse and wagon on the right and what appears to be construction in preparation for paving at the corner of Market…

F. W. Monnish stands near the front of the steam engine of the Dummy Line, Tuscaloosa's first transit system that didn't require horses. Sage A. Monnish, son of F. W. Monnish, is shown in the window of the train. Sage died in 1908 at the age of…

A drawbridge over the Black Warrior River that connected Northport to Tuscaloosa was used until late 1973 when the new Hugh Thomas Bridge was opened.

The drawbridge was built in 1922 at a cost of $196,511 on pillars that had been there since 1897.…