I realize thirty pages of meeting notes from 1904 will not interest everyone but to see for yourself use the link to Google Drive to view or download the notes of a meeting at Southern headquarters in

Fenton: All of the Southern and CofG "brick" cars need a detailed article in TIES as they have quite a history. A "short" answer to your question.....working backwards.... The Southern 505700-505848

My thought about Walthers is that they don’t worry about the small stuff. The average modeler does not either, so Walthers provides models that sell without caring if it is prototypically correct.

It just seems like Walthers had to go out of their way to model the steam generators. None of the other roads (correct or not) had them. John Ryan -- John Ryan

Does anyone have information on these boxcars? They were rebuilt 40 boxcars with 16' door openings and double plug doors. Some had loaders insd=talled and were called container cars. They are in

John, Good to hear from you. I looked at these also. These models are not the Proto series but the Mainline series and maybe comparable the older Proto 1000 series that included the Southern Phase II

John: Working with Walthers, or other manufacturers is something we always try to do but personnel changes can break our contacts. We did receive a request from Walthers about the F-7s quite some time

Well the problem is that the SRHA has told manufacturers what we have and how we can help, and few take advantage of it . There's been personal visits to most of the majors literally showing drawings

What's is really interesting is that none of the other Walthers F7's that I saw had steam generators. If they had just used dynamic brakes there would have been quite a few suitable matches. I

Remember that most people in China have never seen an American locomotive. Also I have seen manufacturers use the same body shell for different paint schemes,not really researching what is correct for

I have been looking at purchasing the Walthers F7 models. The numbers offered, though, do not seem to match the configuration very well. The models have dynamic brakes and steam generators. My

All, Recent news...Sunset Models/3rd Rail is now going to attempt do the dual service (steam generator + rooftop air tanks) F3's in both green and black. These are O Scale models and come in both 3R

All, I will most definitely join the modeling list once established. I'd help moderate it too if desired. In regards to my Question #1 and #2: I looked through my digital library and found Bob

David: One of the reasons we established “ModelingTheSouthern@groups.io” (a sub-group of SouthernRailway@groups.io) is to create a “place” where we can focus on accurate SR modeling

Ike, Wish I had that diagram when I did my F7 freight units. Maybe I'll go back and redo the piping I did to make them more realistic. Wish the archive was closer, so I could volunteer there...it

Southern drawing DL-3304 shows the aftercooler piping for “Freight Units”. I will see if there is a digital version of the air tanks drawing tomorrow. If not, I expect there is a hard copy of the

All, I'm currently trying to figure out three things for Southern (Phase 3) F3's that had the Rooftop Tanks: 1. Does anyone have photos or drawings of the roofs to determine where piping for the tanks

David I have a SOU form 1014 that I believe is a 1967 copy; it DOES NOT have an effective date (olive green cover, dark green tape binding) but I believe it to be a 1967 edition, as it does not have

Does anyone have a copy of the subject list dated January 1, 1967 (on or about)? If so, would you let me know if all nine of the Central of Georgia F3 locomotives (901 - 909) are listed. Thank

Ike: Both Claytor files are corrupted for me (crazy bad formatting) Jim T