Mr. Ike, Do you have the date and any other information on the last Saluda Mountain runaway? (Other than the defective brakes on the Interstate cars) Rod S.

I suspect the Mechanical Dept people did not think FRA inspectors would venture into the wilds of SW VA very often in the late 70s. Defects were visible on many of the yellow ball cars. If one was

Evan, The Interstate continued to operate generally as it had before Southern’s acquisition between 1960 and 1965 when the Southern shut down its Appalachia yard and moved into Andover (clearing the

Evan: Here is a tiny (!) snippet from the SRHA rolling stock data spreadsheets. Many Interstate hoppers were either scrapped because of their age and condition, used in “yellow ball” service, then

Hello everyone, I’m looking for information on what happened to the Interstate RR coal fleet after being acquired by Southern. I know many were placed into captive “yellow ball” service for the

Thanks, I was just planning to add a scale house to my model railroad. George Courtney

My experience was the weighing cars was a yardmasters nightmare in a flat switching yard. Dedicating a 4-man crew to weigh a cut of cars was time consuming. But it had to be done --- just

There are 70 indexes for the 17,000+ files in Southern Railway Presidents’ Files collection in the SRHA Archives. Here is the current version of one of those 70 for the period from 1871 to 1895,

Although it is a subject that does not get discussed much, scales were a very important feature at many yard, terminals and industries on the Southern. Data on them is quite scattered in the SRHA

Charlie: That proposal, certainly the switcher, is in the SRHA archives. The Southern was unhappy with Alco power but because of the anti-trust suit against EMD, they made a last effort with the

Back in 1979 when I was on the Car Department Staff in Atlanta I was in the Mechanical File room searching for something I needed, when I ran across a proposal from ALCO for high-hood, long hood

Happy New Year to all! I'm searching for three Southern Ry. documents: a train register card, a typical waybill and a mine block waybill. Also, I'm on the hunt for any engineering prints or

We have been successfully conducting Zoom sesssions amongst modelers for the past 4 months. I would love to participate in a session related to the SRHA to learn more about the current Archive

Ike That would be great idea about Zoom. I would also like to see more information about the Asheville engine facilities from 1900 forward. This information would be very helpful for those of us who

Ike, I'd love to hear more about the Zoom sessions too. When it's possible to get down to Chattanooga, I'd certainly like to make it a productive use of time for all of us. What you listed....track

Fascinating Bill. I almost forgot about the DL-109s being heavily used on the CNO&TP. I think I always thought more about the FTs needing servicing early. I sent you an email with some correspondence

There are several sources of data in the SRHA archives that can give us information on track, bridges and structures. For a location such as Ludlow, data may (!) be found in track charts, AFEs

Thanks for posting those photos, Bob! I don't recall ever seeing the RS-3s in service (though I was certainly in the area for family trips in that timeframe but I was born in 1969), the former SP

Chris: When SRHA had its annual meeting in Cincinnati in the spring of 1995, one of the activities was a tour of the facilities at Ludlow. We were pretty much given the run of the place and were well

Thanks for sharing this and all of the things you pull out of the archives. There wasn't any doubt about me re-upping my SRHA membership, but this made me re-up a couple of weeks ago for two years