I shot a fair number of these cars over the years, and in looking at my photos it appears the ones I shot were in brick service. Does this conform to your info or experiences? Scott Chatfield

PWRS/NARC is Pacific Western Rail Systems and their manufacturing arm North American Rail Car, not to be confused with the prototype North American Car Company (NACC), a freight car lessor whose

So that's how Pullman mounted the power handbrake gear box in the high position: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sout/sou43022dch.jpg Scott Chatfield

The reason Kadee has done only that car is simple…I think. Until very recently Kadee has not made a Morton roofwalk. Although that was the far and away favorite of the Southern, for some reason the

I did some digging on Kadee's website and it looks like they've only done cars from Southern's 262865-262899 series (assigned to CNO&TP). These were 50-ton cars with DF loaders built in 1960.

The aluminum doors on these cars were the result of Alcoa complaining to the Southern that they were a huge shipper but the railroad was not buying enough aluminum. The complaint led to aluminum

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DUPLICATE-SLIDE-Southern-SOU-43023-Box-Car-FRESH-Paint-Dallas-TX-1966/392145714875 Did you notice the 100-ton trucks? I hadn't before seeing this shot. I sure many of you

All: I trust it will be OK with NIck Molo if I forward his “Master Class” discussion to the group. I’ve posted it on the Southern Railway (not only “modeling”) group because of its business

Does anyone know of a source for an HO model of the Murphy welded roof similar to that shown in SF-5210? These were used on the bay window Hayne cabooses similar to X-3115 (X-3099 - X-3178). The

Re: Bulkhead flat 115757 (Southern series 115750-115774) An interesting car! The series was modified by Evans and renumbered in 1964 under Special Car Program (SCP) 754 from wood racks 120998-122997.

We can research the data about the bulkhead flat but are people aware the slide being sold is from an Al Chione set? All his sets are marked as copyright? Selling someone else's work is simply not the

Tom Mack asked: > any suggested starting point as a good basis for one of these cars? I mentioned the fishbelly sidesills because I wonder if the old Athearn 40-foot flat might work if you cut off the

All: These cars are described in the first SRHA 50’ box car book so I won’t duplicate that information here. I did not reproduce the AFE that led to the cars’ being ordered but I am reasonably

[This was posted to the Baby Boomers Freight Car List. Fowarded here to see if anyone has modeled these series yet.] Tom Mack wrote: >Southern received 500 of these interesting Pullman-Standard

The Southern was definitely ahead of its time. We generally think of low bulkheads are being a very modern

Here are two 100 ton aggregate hoppers I have done. 103373 is scratchbuilt, before the Walthers hopper came out. (Yes, I will claim the Dabney award for building a model then seeing a commercial

A cross posting from the MFCL.. Cale: Southern 114000-114149 were built by Thrall under New Car Program (NCP) 186 in 1978. The Thrall General Arrangement drawing is 5-M-001-40, stencil is

For our first topic in "Modeling the Southern", could someone suggest a "cover" photo of a Southern Model? I had to get rid of the elephants but as you may have noticed, I do not have a good setup for