Well done David, it looks very good and the decals appear very correct. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Friday night, I had some leftover Tru Color paint in my airbrush cup after painting my pulp racks, so I pulled out an Ertl low side gon project car, removed trucks and deck, then painted it black. I

Although the terminology does not appear to be commonly used, a few of the more than 23 bound SR contract books include an "Index Appendix", The example from Volume iX is attached. It groups contracts

Ike-. Looks like a good reproduction of a typical Jt. Facility agreement, of which I made, amended, or supplemented over much of my career. I am glad to see that the agreements are being organized

One of the on-going SRHA archives projects has been to scan as many of the 1,100+ Southern Railway contract books as possible. The first pass scanning the unbound contracts we have is done. Now, we

Decking is wood clearly in the photo. Also shown on the print as the "wood grain" is drawn into the detail of several of the planks. The thickness, type of wood and specified finish is likely in the

Kevin: One of the local fans told us the railroad hired a contractor periodically to salvage the coal and scrap the cars. Other than rust on the wheels, there was no way to tell how long the car laid

Ike I noticed that too. Suspect they took whatever was easily reusable and left the rest. When was the derailment? Kevin

Hi all, I need your interpretive eye help. I'm going to create a Ghost decal for the gondola pictured below. Other than one rib off (8 instead of 9) the Ertl model is almost perfect for this number

Ike, The Stonega line ends at the Wentz mine and transloader. Dick On 3/17/2019 11:08 AM, George Eichelberger wrote:

I just noticed the photos of derailed Sou 72747 show the knuckles removed from both couplers. Is that some kind of universal “sign” that the car is permanently out of service? Ike

Here is a PARTIAL list of Southern’s 50-ton articulated hoppers. There are more than 100,000 spreadsheet entries for Southern locomotives, freight and passenger cars that have been transcribed

To answer a question about the decking on Southern Greenville Steel Car bulkhead flats, here is the title block half of GSC drawing 36028 but I do not see any references to the planks being wood or

Here are three photos of Southern 70-ton hopper 72747 derailed and on its side just outside the mine at the very north end of the Roda or Stonega Interstate mine spurs. The tipple is uphill to the

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