Great, Rick. Thanks.

Ben Robert's told me there were 3..Some where I have the pictures he gave me. Ill try to find them. Rick

Bill, Shelby Lowe once told me that these along with several Pacifics and switchers painted in this scheme with "Southern" on the tender sides rather than the large numerals were used in passenger

In the SRHA Archives, we have photographs of at least two Ts-class Mountains, 1453 and 1454, in black paint with dog houses on the tender decks. These are the only two 4-8-2s I know of that got the

The SRHA archives work session for 18-19 September 2020 has been cancelled, due to continuing threat of Covid-19 Jim Thurston

George, Yes I did meet Ben Roberts at his home. He was a very nice man, and he had an impressive collection from the Southern Railroad. Steve

Steve: Ben Roberts and Oscar Kimsey were the "heart and soul" of the Southern Railway Historical Society. Both were prolific photographers and more or less produced "Southern Rails" by themselves.

Thank you.

Steve: The organization, the SRHS, no longer exists and hasn't for some years. SRHA was started many years ago as the alternative. Check out our website at www.srha.net. CEA

The status reports of passenger train discontinuances, rejections and approvals to VP DW Brosnan in the SRHA archives begin in April, 1947 and continued, almost monthly, into the mid fifties. The

I was in the historical society, or one of them, for the Southern Railway maybe 20 years ago. There was an old gentleman named Mr. Roberts in the Augusta Georgia area who was the head of it. I paid

Mike Schafer and I are co-editors of SRHA’s quarterly journal, TIES. We are distant cousins. If you have an interest in the fascinating Southern Railway, you should consider joining SRHA. You can do

I grew up next to the K&0 line west of Knoxville in the early 60s and remember the boxcars with no doors. The lime was piled in bulk in each end of the car. Seemed like it was seasonal as in early

Thank you Bill, and this is wonderful information. I always wondered about that line. The earliest passenger timetable I have for the Southern is April 1962. On the map of the rail system, the line

Central of Georgia Pulpwood Cars (Box Cars) CG converted approx 1300 36 ft Vent Box cars to Pulpwood rack cars in 1953=/-Information on the conversion is featured in the Jan-Mar 2007 issue of The

Regarding the early pulpwood rack conversions I was wrong on my first dates. Here is a spreadsheet from my pulpwood clinic Southern Ry Pulpwood Racks - Flat car conversions Car No.

No description on the way the lime was contained. No idea if it was bulk or bagged. Dave Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

1910 - SOU ran three each way daily into/out of St. Louis - trains 7-8, accommodation trains Mt. Vernon, Ill.-St. Louis making all local stops; trains 1-2, overnight to/from Louisville with

Ike I think lots of modelers would. From what I’ve found SR started building pulpwood racks from the 115XXX, 117XXX flat cars in the 1920’s. By the late 1940’s and 1950’s I doubt much SR

Dave: Do the switch lists describe if the lime is bagged? I don’t think we’d see off-line cars on the Southern in bulk lime service? Does anyone know….would box cars without doors be accepted in