I’m gonna concur with Senior Graham on this one. Enlarging the picture it is clearly black. Jason Greene

The lettering on SOU 1116 sure looks black to me. FWIW, I saw and photographed more of the 1960's era all-aluminum cars (4000 series cement covered hoppers, 6200 series 3 bay covered hoppers and Big

Now that would be interesting to see. I will seach on Flickr and see what I can turn up. Thanks again Stuart! Thanks, Alex

Thanks Stuart! Thats really interesting about the robot power and its arrangement. I will try and find some info about the coal train. It Thanks, Alex

Thanks for that info and link Tim, greatly appricated! Thanks, Alex

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-Southern-SOU-1116-Hopper-Car-August-1970/373115491098?hash=item56df6a931a:g:aZIAAOSwlGZfDhpG Looks to have been repainted at Coster prior to this 1970

To add to this, I don’t remember which train it was, but we used to see run through BN power come into Louisville from St Louis. Stuart Thayer

There is a "Freight Train Schedules and Blocking Instructions" for 1979 available here: http://southern.railfan.net/paper/sr_paper.html At a first glance through the index, here are the trains I see

Alex, There were also trains 123 and 124 which were about the hottest trains on that line. Used to watch 124 come off the K&IT bridge in New Albany in the afternoons heading west. It usually had big

Hello everyone, I in the planning stages of of a HO-scale layout based on the Louisville to St. Louis line. I've tried searching on the web for informating on the line but have had no luck. Primarily

Thanks, Robert. I completely missed seeing those vertical numbers until much later, after my reply to Fenton. Elsewise I wouldn't have ID'd it incorrectly. I'm so accustomed to seeing white horizontal

Mr. Schmidt, The signal illustrated in Fenton's photo at the start of the Saluda timing section is a 2 aspect signal, not a single fixed aspect. SOU fixed aspect signals on Eastern Lines in modern

I thinkI still have the original slides and can provide a tiff image if needed. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Thank you, Fenton. Those put me a step closer to the goal. Now I know there were cases and a signal at the start of circuit, as well as the sign, which I knew was there. And the signal was likely a

Paul, I don't know if this will help but I took these photos in the Fall of 1984 on a trip to Saluda. You may use them if they will help your article Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC

Hello Can anyone advise if there are any books on the Crescent after Amtrak started but BEFORE Amtrak took it over? Jim Younger

In the days when Linwood was still a pipe dream and 153 came out of Pot Yard and 173, 453, and 155 originated at Spencer, all usually ran radio. As Tim says, when tonnage was light the trains would

I can remember in the mid-'60's hearing about some bad derailments around the tunnels on the CNO&TP when the Radio Control Cars lost radio signals. New technology sometimes takes a little time to

Thanks for the very informative information on white number boards and LOCO - TROL. I guess you do learn something new every day. Thanks, Michael Shirey

Here's a train doing something similar in Alexandria. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=736111 Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC