Ike, Thanks for the scans. The diagram, especially, is useful. Joel

Joel,  Thank you for sharing that information. Interesting project! The annual report for fiscal year 1900 ending June 30, 1900 shows 9 passenger cars being retired that year which should include

This may be too wide of a question but would appreciate input on the length of the bridges on the various Southern turntables just prior to dieselization in the early 1950s. Thanks Allen Cain

Since Jack asked, I'm not modeling a 1900 Southern train but am working on a book (historical fiction) built around the Camp Creek wreck north of McDonough, Georgia in June of 1900. I have found

Ike, the combined baggage - coach cars continued into the 600 series. As I already posted, the new first class coaches started at 1200. Southern did have an order from Pullman in early 1901 which

Joel, Look at this site for a source of early Southern Rwy. passenger car diagrams: http://southern.railfan.net/ Select "Southern Documents", next "Passenger and Business Car Diagrams", and finally

Sorry for the delay responding, this is not a simple answer I have not located a high quality scanned version of a turn of the century Southern coach floor plan. For a stand-in, I’ve attached a

Ike, Whereas I agree that many of the lower level ICC accounts aren’t very interesting (replace 100# rail with 110# rail), many of them list the tracks they are related to. So many times you can

Jack, Your information was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks. Joel

Jason, Thanks for the information. Off the top of your head, would you know what record group the drawings are in. If you don't, I have a copy of the finding aids that I can browse and get an idea

Kev: Thanks..that’s my guess but the Athens, GA Acct 20 example didn’t include a turntable. I think (!) Frank Greene and I scanned all of the summaries but we have to remember, they only cover

Joel, The original renumbering from the predecessor roads had combination passenger and baggage cars in the 500-560 series. Second class passenger coaches (some of which did not last much longer)

The Archives have some drawing from pre-Southern equipment as well as some of the first Southern drawings from the turn of the century. Jason Greene

There are 2 pictures in the center fold of Issue 31 of "Southern Rails" Winter 1990/1991(from 1926) of Ps-4s still in black livery with stripping. One on the Queen and Crescent Limited and the other

Ike, Turntables were typically accounted for in ICC 20. Kevin

Thanks Barry, that was my recall too, but I could not find it. Southern Rails was not the easiest publication to find something in. Maybe I should try again (in the morning after my <pot of>

Jack: The Val section data for Brunswick would include any turntable info through the years, although I do not know which ICC account that would be shown under (turntables are not shown separately,

As I recall, a few issues after Southern Rails #28 was an update with a couple more “Black Beauty” pictures. I don’t have my Southern Rails available to check which issue had them, but I will

The 99 ships built at Brunswick during WWII probably accounted for some tonnage. Naval Air Station Glynco was a big blimp base, so I guess that quite a bit of helium was used there, I am curious what

Jack: No doubt you are correct but I cannot find anything in the archives (that we have scanned) to provide more information about SR Mountains to Jesup. There must be something, so we’ll keep