Sandy, Murphy is a hard town to find 70s era info on. I'm modeling the Murphy Branch in 1978 and getting all the info is challenging to say the least. High detail aerial imagery of the railroad that

I believe SSW was a Southern official taking his office car over a foreign road, so that would have been quite a laugh. Looking at a Official Guide from that era, I see an S. S. Wilbanks, Vice

Regarding "SSW" notation: "Nothing about SSW being stranded with nothing to survive in but an office car. Did they offer him a bus ticket?" Apparently an official with those initials was riding in an

I have mentioned the extent of the Southern Railway Presidents’ files in the SRHA/L&NHS/TVRM archives (to become the “Center for Southeastern Railroad Research) multiple times. (Do similar files

We are re-opening the "Roosevelt Railroad" in Spalding county. No hurry to do so, it's a project a group of us does as we can. We have about 7 miles of former Southern track (M-9.6 - M-16.8), from

Fascinating information about the engine changes! I was surprised with the frequency that the engines were replaced. Thanks, Curtis. Michael B. Welborn

Not relating to the funeral train… My father was on FDR’s Marine Guard prior to WWII. As an “inside guard”, he was one of the Marines closest to the President. He traveled with FDR to and from

Obscure but interesting, George. Thank you. Mike Michael B. Welborn 520-299-2356 520-615-1351 Fax

Will, I wish you luck in finding footage of funeral train other than the few snippets appearing on the web. All I've ever seen were shots of the train departing Warm Springs and backing into Union

I’m Sandy Smart, SRHA member living in Oban, Scotland, UK. A long way from NC! I’m hoping to model Murphy in the mid 1970s, both Southern and L&N tracks, and I’m looking for some help in

There are so many potential “stories” among the Southern Railway Presidents’ files in the SRHA archives, there is simply no way many of them can ever be written about. I’ve attached an example

When the FDR funeral train came through the different towns and cities does anyone have or know where to find a video (If there are any) of the find a video of the train going by? All the footage I

I think some were used to haul hay from Kentucky or points north to the south many years ago during a really bad drought. I thought that was a neat way to utilize such massive cars to haul bulky,

Those roll over date stamps have the years as a single stamp, and only in a tight timeframe from when it was made. In other words, any stamp you buy today will probably have 2023 to about 2030 or so.

Yes to “1965”. The “problem” with these cars is they were not a single design, blt. date or carbuilder. (Someone had plans to produce an HO model. SRHA provided the drawings, then pffft, nada.

With apologies to everyone that sent an email to “archives@...” over the past year, most were not being forwarded. I will attempt (very) belated responses to as many as possible but please re-ask

But with the date stamps you can roll over the numbers like the ones with the 6 digits. So 2 for day 2 for month and 2 for yr

They might be willing to customize the year for you. Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC SB-77

The only problem with date stamps is that they're all for current times and how almost nobody models today...

Check out this website that makes highly customizable dates stamps that can also be used as ticket daters: https://www.stamp-connection.com/ btw they also make custom corporate seals, so if we know