Occasionally, our writers receive a note of appreciation about our articles in this paper; these articles for the Tri-City have been contributed by our members since 1990. Recently, Mr. Dudley wrote a note to say how much he liked a history of logging railroads. Mr. Dudley who is in his 90s, is a veteran of WWII. He later had a career in the space program, retiring as a project engineer at Huntsville. He turned his attention to the history of Alabama’s railroads and joined the local railroad club in 1968. Today, this club operates the Alabama railroad museum in Sheffield and Mr. Dudley, as the...