All I can say is WOW and thank you so much everyone. This is amazing research work and I know myself and many of our crews appreciate it. First to answer an earlier post I just saw now. Yes, this

Tim, thanks for finding the answer. Years ago when I was trying to create an all time roster of Southern Railway passenger cars, a similar renumbering incident, number 1367 in your list, bedeviled me.

From the SRHA archives today comes the following from the car maintenance record for car 3659 and dated 11/1/1966 Using the diagram book from Another Man's Treasure we see that the car was originally

Stephen, in the early 1960s Southern still had a few coaches with throw-over seats. I seem to remember catching one of them in a train between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Talk about a time warp! Jack

Having rode these cars starting in 1960 all the way through the end of SR's scheduled service (on the Knoxville Division and CNO&TP), I can say that you have an "original" car interior, at least

I don't remember them being referred to as LDX, just that you had to use red ink to fill them out.

Chris, Bethlehem Steel did build 25 coaches for Southern Railway System in 1924. They were numbered 1614-1633 and CNO&TP 3776-3780. The coaches generally got renumbered when they were rebuilt with

Memos referring to car 3659 are in the “Excursion Services” files dated 5-31-68, 8-1-70 and 3-9-79, so we know it was in use then. Ike

I assume this is follow up to the question from last week regarding the 3659, now at the Valley Railroad. I was able to look at the maintenance card in the SRHA archives over the weekend and found the

Chris: What is the car number, your organization and where is it? Ike

Hello all, Our volunteer organization as started its investigation of the car to see what needs to be addressed. Current plans are not finalized but I'm sure these inspections will tell weather or

For anyone interested in Southern Railway freight and passenger car maintenance and modifications 1971-1984, the nine pages now on Google Drive are the “key” to helping get the SRHA archives

And you were required to use LDX pens for these reports? Interesting. Do you know of any other departments or reports (other than switch lists and waybill headers) that required the use of LDX

Bill, They were mailed to the Car Department office at 99 Spring St. There a small group of clerks reviewed them for errors that might cause problems such as a missing reporting mark or faint

Southern Call Office Sheet, 1981. Have you ever seen a Southern RR Call Office sheet? I never had except when I was a kid and went with my dad to the call office on a weekend and saw it on the agents

Thanks, Charlie, How were the reports submitted? Did they get sent somewhere by LDX machine or fax? —Bill

Bill, The Mechanical Department used them to fill out the car repair billing forms used to report the repairs made to cars on the RIP tracks. Charlie

That’s the point of the article, which will explain why they were no longer required by 1978.

Carl: That just reminds me of the US Government Skillcraft pens that I used from being in the service. Mike

By 1978, train crews weren't required to use the red LDX pens for 612's, but there were still plenty of them around.