If you can find the result, that would be great. History is always in danger of being lost, just when it seems safe something changes. Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

This was throughly hashed out years ago on the old yahoo group. You may have them saved in your saved emails. I’m not sure if you can still go back and find the old yahoo group and search the

On the steam freight car list (STMFC) there is an excel sheet which has the reweigh and repack location shop codes compiled for all US railroads mostly by Richard Hendrickson and primarily based upon

Aidrian, My conductor logs were from the Winston-Salem division in 1934 and centered on Greensbor0. I didn't offer this because Allen was looking for 1955 data. The logs represent a large number

There was a long discussion which covered this topic on the old Freightcars List about 20 years ago. The upshot of a lot of analysis was that in the post war period "free roaming" cars - primarily

Can anyone give me a general idea of what percentage of cars on Southern main lines in 1955 would have been Southern? I was thinking 50% but that is just a guess. Any other percentages of other roads

Thanks for the replies about the Hogshead cars. Very educational. Completely outside of my work at the Southern in intermodal. If memory serves we did have some tire shipments by piggyback into

When I called on Goodyear's Akron OH HQ for CSX, which back then -- in the 1990's -- also served the Gadsden plant, both we and NS were trying our best to retain the rail shipment of tires. I believe

James, I suspect the RJ Reynolds acquisition of a truck fleet would be tied in to the State of NC's imposition of the tobacco leaf processing tax and resultant company activity to avoid that expense

Bob, Thanks for the info. Would that tax have coincided with RJ Reynolds purchase of a large trucking fleet in the early 1980’s? I remember seeing these cars come from the RJ Reynolds Storage

Absolutely they were in interchange service. They (all 3 types; original Coster Shop built dutch roof single door & flat roof single door; and P-S built flat roof double door) were in use hauling

I saw them in the early 1990s at the Goodyear Plant in Topeka KS. Jack Wyatt

They would have worked well in coke service. Knock the sky lights out and unload through the side doors. Just kidding of course. Were they not used in the furniture industry after tobacco service?

A few questions about the ever popular hogshead cars. 1) Where they ever in interchange service? Especially in their original role of hauling tobacco "hogsheads". 2) I think most of them spent their

Patrick Tillery please contact me off-list re: your SOU/NS wood chip hopper reservation. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/

From the Morning Sun Site: Southern Railway in Color, Volume 4, cuts across the deep south despite starting in Illinois and Indiana. It then skips to eastern Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and

FYI to all: Southern Railway in Color Volume 4 is now available for pre-order from Morning Sun Books. I just ordered mine. There's a $10.00 discount for pre-orders. Morning Sun is listing an August 1

All: Sorry some folks were having a problem downloading the SR tonnage map from Google Drive. They changed something and reset the defaults for downloads. I changed it back to simply requiring using

My time period is 1974. I like EMD -2s and there was still a passenger train on the line then. Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

Tim: We have a number of Asheville Div train sheets from the early 1940s, they show an amazing number of trains on the River Line west of Asheville. As a Division Point, Asheville handled trains on