50-ton aggregate cars were also articulated. Dick Fisher On 1/17/2021 12:29 PM, George Eichelberger wrote:

Dan: I don’t think the concept of joining two 50-T hoppers was based on reduced costs. After the “Big John” case was settled (won), the Southern wanted to offer 100-T tariffs on other

Bill, I don’t have any photos I can share online, but in the hopper section of “Southern Railway Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment” by James Kincaid is a photo of an articulated

For what it’s worth, my recollection is that the cars were joined with a solid drawbar and a solid air hose - no glad hands. Also, I do not ever recall seeing “artics” painted black. If anyone

What I haven’t been able to figure out with these “articulated” cars is how they were coupled. I would assume a drawbar, but photos aren’t clear. How do you designate an A and B end with brake

Those hybrids were strange looking. Around ‘65 or so I recall seeing one standing under the Gay St. viaduct, and asked a Sou. Carman what they were. His answer was less than printable, likely

While I do not have a record of this particular car, and I do not recall any cars just left off-track (maybe the scrapper got there first), I do recall the original Benedict mine as having occasional

The company reports would have been in the Asheville Division records which are long gone. CEA

Rodney: If we have anything it would be in the Chattanooga archives…I’m just outside of Atlanta. I’d suggest looking into some of the sites that keep ICC accident reports. Ike

I am needing to sell two Ho scale Southern diesels at a very reasonable price. A Rapido B36-7 for 150.00 and an Athearn genesis GP39X for 100.00. I can be contacted through the group or e-mail:

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. From: main@SouthernRailway.groups.io

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

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,

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

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

I wasn't paying close attention to these messages until I rea your reply to Warren; I was thinking you were doing a CofG RS3. But, for ET&WNC, I can offer a couple of 209 I have scanned. I also have

Thanks, guys. Warren, that's a great photo and I'm probably going to use it as a guide along with some other shots I have of it. that's the cleanest I've ever seen her in photos, for some type of