The SRHA Archives Work Session for March will be this weekend, Friday & Saturday, March 15 & 16. The schedule for future Work Sessions may be found at SRHA.net (on the first page) The remaining

Thank you for all of you help. I have forwarded all the comments to the City of Greensboro. Kevin von der Lippe

I also do not know with authenticity the colors of steel structures in the 30's, but I do know that SR "greased" its steel structures in the 70's to preserve the steel. However, SR had a unit train

While the Sou Ry steel bridges I shot photos of in the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's were silver in color with either black or green lettering like the one Carl Ardrey provided, I believe in the 1940's and

Can anyone cite the builder(s) and dates for the Charleston Division drawbridges over the Congaree River (SC Line MP 102.6) and over the Wateree River on the SB Line (MP 5.2)?

This structure still in use by the Aiken RR is between Aiken and Warrenville. CEA

Kevin Van Der Lippe: I don’t know how the underpasses were painted in the 1940s, but when I was living there in the early-1970s, the McGee Street/Davie Street underpass was a dirty gray or silver,

The City of Greensboro is working with NS and the NCRR to paint the various railroad bridges within the city limits, and would like to paint them to be historically correct for the Southern Railway.

Just a reminder that the SRHA Archives Work Session will be Friday & Saturday, Feb 22-23 Jim Thurston

Southwest Scale Productions offers HO scale FP7-F9 after cooler piping for sale which is also sold by Highliners. http://www.southwestscale.com/F9-Rooftop-Coil-DE-100.htm Justin May

Highliners also has aftercooler pipes for F-units. Gary

As far as I know the long cooling pipes mounted alongside the radiator fans were aftercooler pipes between the air compressor and the main reservoir. Sounds like the finned pipes on the E6s and E7s

There does not appear to be any drawings of rooftop cooling pipes for FP-7s in the SRHA archive scans. As many early photos of Southern FP-7s do not show the pipes, I expect they were added after

File section of the Yahoogroup migrated to groups.io has drawings.

I know Bob Harp did one of these on the old Southern Modeler site. Check to see if it is still there.-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Hi all, I am working on a project and trying to gather info on FP-7's. Anybody got dimensions or drawings of rooftop piping? (Were they cooling coils or air lines up there?) Also what about location

SRHA is in the process of scanning more than 1,000 contracts, operating agreements, leases, joint facility agreements and equipment trusts. In the next few weeks we should be able to upload scans of

We are back from the Cocoa Beach RPM and this weekend's Atlanta train show. I expect several folks we spoke to will help at Friday and Saturday's SRHA archives work session. We will be working on

I recently purchased a Nikon Cool Scan 5000 to scan my large slide collection. Slides I did not take and ones that are no longer applicable to my modeling, research, etc., will be sold off. The

I recently purchased a Nikon Cool Scan 5000 to scan my large slide collection. Slides I did not take and ones that are no longer applicable to my modeling, research, etc., will be sold off. The