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Young RV From the Plant 64 Copy Editor, Carolyn Thompson Two 40th Anniversaries Contributing Writers: Fred Thompson, TMH Dealers Meeting Norman Spray, Rick Kessler, Danny Inman, Traveling With Your Pets 36 Jonathan Willis, Dave & Terri McClellan, Bob Tiffin, Dr. John Pilarczyk, and Sally Moore. Tiffin Management Team 37 Serious Tech Talk 70 Contributing Photographers: Fred Thompson, Brian Granlund Dave & Terri McClellan, Rick Kessler, Rick Cover: The Jekyll Island Club Hotel Curd, Everette Albury, Claudia Abbott, and In the Plant with Jonathan 40 photographed by Fred Thompson Jonathan Willis. Roughing It Smoothly circulation jumps to 79,000 printed and online magazines. Over 25,000 Tiffin owners are now receiving dress in case we need to edit or ask for more dress including the zip code. We do not ac- Roughing It Smoothly through the U.S. and Ca- information. Color prints are welcome and cept phone calls for changes of address. nadian postal service. 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Be sure to include your name old address before we can add a new one). ing It Smoothly, PO Box 1150, Monroe, GA and address, phone number, and email ad- Second, please enter your new three-line ad- 30655-1150. The following names are registered trademarks of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.: Open Road®, Phaeton®, Allegro®, Allegro Bay®, Allegro Bus®, Allegro Breeze®, Zephyr®, Roughing It Smoothly®, Pusher®, and PowerGlide®. 2 FALL 2015 VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4 56 41 Features Trickle-Down Design: It Works! • The Allegro 34PA Leaves the Competition in Awe. See page 6 Georgia’s Golden Isles • Jekyll Island. See page 16 That’s All, Brother • The First C-47 to Drop Paratroopers on D-Day. See page 41 Steam Train to Bald Knob • A Steep Adventure on the Cass Scenic Railroad. See page 56 The National Park Service will celibrate its 100th anni- versary in 2016. To recognize the NPS’s achievement, all of the travel stories in Roughing It Smoothly next year will fea- ture our national parks. The Winter edition (13:1) will lead off with the Grand Canyon National Park, followed by the Rocky Mountain National Park in the Spring, the Denali National Park in Summer, and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in the Fall edi- tion. Shorter features on other national parks will accompany the major story. The Grand Canyon and Denali parks will feature the photography of Claudia Abbott. At left is a sample of her work. 3 PRESIDENT’S CORNER How the Railroads Built the Economy of Red Bay and Northwest Alabama by Bob Tiffin The U.S. Postal Service’s first record of a post office in central supplies and furnishings. They received all their merchandise by northwest Alabama was in 1888 in a community called Gum. It rail. Unfortunately, the impressive building burned in 1916. was about 2.5 miles south of where Red Bay is now. Five families Uncle Jim moved to Clanton and Uncle Bob stayed in Red Bay comprised this community: the Standfields, Tiffins, Bullens, and opened a hardware business in a different building. TBosticks, and Beasleys. A few years later a lumber company named Golden Saw Mill Moving forward about 20 years, the Illinois Central (the IC) opened in Red Bay with a huge milling operation. They ran 100 decided to build a spur off the New Orleans to Chicago line, miles of narrow gauge rail lines into several counties to harvest starting at Cairo, Illinois, and connecting the towns of Jackson, virgin timber, sending out two small steam engines every day to Tennessee; Corinth, Mississippi; and Haleyville, Alabama. The haul logs back to Golden. They even had their own sluice pond route came through Red Bay. for staging the logs into the mill. Much of the South was going The IC started building the line in 1907 and almost imme- through the latter stages of the industrial revolution. Golden diately the families in the Gum community moved to the area Saw Mill used the Illinois Central to ship nearly all of their that is now Red Bay and incorporated the town. Little towns milled lumber north to the cities of Chicago, Cleveland, and sprang up along the new railroad’s right-of-way — Tishomingo, Detroit that were experiencing rapid growth. Belmont, Vina, Hodges, and Hackleburg. Everyone wanted to Red Bay had an abundance of limestone and a big sand pit. be located on the railroad. With the largest population, Red Bay Located about two miles south of the Red Bay Cemetery, Jim also turned out to be the strongest economically. Bryce Hughes Sand Pit shipped sand by rail to the glass factories Commerce started almost immediately. Stores were built up north including PPG and Ford. Large quantities also went along a single street which today is still Red Bay’s Main Street. to the Birmingham steel mills. Sand was used to line the molds Among those was a store called Tiffin Brothers. It was built in when they poured molten iron. Birmingham was one of the few 1910 by two of my great uncles, Jim and Bob Tiffin (my grandfa- places on earth that had large resources of coal, limestone, iron ther’s brothers).
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