A (perverse) benefit of having many train-off petitions and documents in the SRHA archives, is that they contain some of the best information on how trains were operated that the Southern wanted to

James and everyone: A large percentage of ALL SR ETTs are in the SRHA archives and have ben scanned. The intention has been to publish the entire collection, most likely on-line. If any SRHA members

Hey all, does anyone happen to have scans of any employee timetables for the Atlanta-Birmingham line they would be willing to share? Timetables for the 40s and 50s would be great, but I'll gladly

Hi, Sandy. The Tennessee Comptroller's Office has valuation maps of all railroads in Tennessee available for free download

Hello Sandy and all Some suggestions: Try accessing Sanborn maps through the Library of Congress website Search: loc sanborn maps Memphis Try contacting the Memphis Rail and Trolley Museum, Mike

Hello I posted a request for information about Memphis City Yard in the 1960s yesterday. I forgot to mention that I would also be interested in Memphis employee timetables, freight train procedures

Mike Condron’s site is great but you already got that. I don’t know if Steve Forrest is on this group but he’d be another good source. He shot a lot of slide in that area a little later than

Hello I am a SRHA member in Oban, Scotland, UK. I would like to find more information about the Southern freight operations around City Yard Memphis, Tennessee in the 1960s. This was inspired by

This goes into the "planning ahead" module for you train show fans. I just got this the other day and since it's a sort of first time for this group at this location AND the historical importance of

As one of the SRHA people that handle the SR.io group, a notice comes to me whenever anyone joins or leaves the group. This one, for long time SRHA member Dick Fisher, was a sad reminder that, last

Just that last minute reminder to check out all the goodies available at the Hagerstown Ag Center train show on Saturday, May 7. There is usually an eclectic variety available at the show and it

Doug, Do you have a sharper scan of this attached document to your post. When I enlarge it, it is not clear enough to read. Regards, John John C. Willis Mobile, Al

How are you doing, Can I ask a favor? Edward

If anyone, or any foundation, historical group... can fund someone to work at the archives to organize, index, scan, copy, upload to the NAS…whatever. We can promise books, articles, copies, access

I like the big image files for archiving and research since you can read carbon copies, faded ink, and marginal notes in pencil or wax. But I agree that converting to 72 dpi and using optical

Thanks for sharing. A book acknowledging Marvin would be fitting tribute. He was a gem of a person and cared about preserving knowledge. He got me going on the A&Y and supported me in my

John: The example I posted shows only a fraction of the content in the material Marvin accumulated. (As a Sou-NS employee he had access to railroad files and most certainly volunteered when material

Based on the Royal Palm pool, a good guess for the date of the document would be at least spring 1947 or later. My March 1947 passenger timetable does not show the train as being dieselized, but the

George, If all the information is of the same quality, Mr. Black's contribution is to be lauded in the highest terms. Thanks for sharing this sample. These jpg's can be resized to 800x600 with no

We have not given sufficient "thanks" to the amazing amount of Southern Railway Diesel locomotive research material Marvin Black accumulated for his planned book on SR diesels. Among many other items,