Kevin: This is great news! SARM is doing superb work preserving Central of Georgia and Southern rolling stock. Although we have not been very successful getting folks interested in the Central in

Hi all, It’s true the Man o’ War wasn’t a Southern train, but I thought you all might find this interesting Kevin August 5, 2021 From Southern Appalachia Railway Museum, Inc.and East

Ike, I believe it was fairly common practice among railroads to stamp the owning roads reporting marks (Southern had none) and car number on the center sill. You might find the location on a paint and

I have found many Southern cars stenciled on the frame near the bolster but often this gets very dirty and hard to read. Inside the door is often another good place. You may have to remove layers of

I don’t know about the center sill but I do remember seeing the initial & number stamped on the lower side of the car body around the hand rails. Don’t remember if it was the ‘A’ end or

Does anyone know if the Southern used metal dies to stamp a car’s road number on its center sill? The question is to try to determine a car’s original number so it can be painted and numbered

Apparently, the question began from the NYC’s cars in the order. They started the issue of having 3 inch skirts on their lightweight cars. There is an entire sequence of correspondence between the

I wonder who the guy was that thought they could call up Ford and ask them to modify their cars to look like Chevy? My response would have been “If you wanted all your cars to look the same you

The attached letter from Budd to the Southern, 4-28-47 is one of a series of letters in the SRHA archives where Southern asked Budd, ACF and Pullman to change the design of the side sheets on cars on

In 1955 my memory says black. I’m not sure when the flats, hoppers and racks went to brown but I thought it was 1957. Could be wrong. Maybe some one who definitely knows will chime in. But you could

In 1955 would the Southern 53'6" flatcars in the 51000 series have been painted black or freight car red? Allen Cain -- Allen Cain Modeling the Southern in 1955 in HO Scale

Thanks, Gary. I check his site out. George Courtney

Chad Boas has the correct end door for the SRR 40' boxcar. Gary Bechdol

George Courtney Would either of these two ends be good for the opening doors on the ends of a Southern 40' or 50' Automobile Boxcar early 1950's? This might take e two messages

Paul: From the SRHA archives, here circa 1947, is the drawing for “Southern Railway Post Sign”. All of the various state RR crossing signs are also in the files, I will see if the VA “slow

I have a copy, and I too enjoyed it, it contains a lot of good information, and is written in a way that holds a reader's interest. One thing I will always remember about it, however, is this quote

Bob, I enjoyed it too, learning about many obscure wrecks/accidents. I do recommend the book, but just double check anything which seems questionable. All wrecks are nasty, but New Market ranks right

That would be suspicious, Jack. The book was written by an English professor as a study of ballads and the wrecks that inspired them, it was not written by a railroader or a rail enthusiast. I agree

Thanks Bob, It's an interesting book, but some pictures in her article on the New Market wreck are questionable (e.g. wrecked freight cars in the wreck of two passenger trains). Jack Wyatt

I accidentally hit "send" before I was finished. Sorry. The previously mentioned book is a study of train wrecks and the ballads written about them. I don't think it is still in print, but one could