I found the link to this group on the SRHA website, and decided to give it a try. I'm interested in several railroads, mostly in the South, like the Seaboard, L&N, and ACL, though I do have a soft

How do you find the sub-group? Jack

George, The Southeaster Railway Museum has former Southern Railway (GS&F) SW-7 unit No. 8202 Until not too long ago it was operational, but I'm not certain of its current status. Last time I saw it,

The stuff about Southern switch engines has me thinking… Are there any Southern ALCo or EMD switch engines preserved at one of the museums? TVRM just did a lot of work* obtaining, and moving, a

I’ve explained to people over the years; if you see an odd diesel consist or one that seems too large (Southern had a strict 24 (?) powered axle limit), look at the MU hoses as it passes. Engine(s)

That's the sort of approach that John Stewart followed using a scenes-along-the way approach. His website is at http://www.bhamrails.info - there is some good protype info in there as well . Ken

We met every Tuesday evening and were there most weekends as well. The fuel rack was always busy with four axle road power (including F units near their end) while the bigger engines went in and out

Try a thru freight with a pair of F-7s back-to-back followed by three SW1500s on a 150 car train . . .

Bill, That would be a sight to behold for sure. I’ve always thought an F7-GP38 pair looked odd but the idea of F7-SW1500 would be great. One for the layout for sure. Jason Greene

Here’s another advantage to those SW1500s being delivered on Flexicoil trucks: they could be used as road power in a pinch. When I was in Southern’s training program in Greensboro 1971-1972, many

As Jack Wyatt suggested, trackage appearing in 1935 district map remained largely intact through the '40s and into the early '60s, when mergers and abandonments took hold. I have full-size 3x5'

Tim: I don’t know (see my posting just now) but I suspect that particular roller bearing equipped switcher allowed Southern to close, or cut back, operations at the Alex disel shop. Ike

Rob: Yes, there are diesel assignments into the ’60 in the archives. The practice of assigning locos to specific locations/routes and trains became less of an issue in the early 70s. As roundhouses

Hi, Somewhere on the many lists I read this article drifted by. Gino Damen Van: Charles Harris Verzonden: dinsdag 21 september 2021 08:55 Aan: main@SouthernRailway.groups.io Onderwerp: Re:

I grew up in Arlington and started hanging out at the Northern Virginia Model Railroaders layout in the old Alexandria yard office about 1971. IIRC SW1500 2300 was the usual yard engine that I

Ike, Good study. I assume the $35k operating savings is the steam maintenance costs vs diesel maintenance. That’s alot of steam maintenance! But all of our steam was at least 20 years old by that

Charles, you're welcome. The index for earlier issues show content, but for the last few years, you just have to discern it from the cover photo. Jack

Hello Jack Thanks for the link. Will do and look forward to brousing! (or however it is spelt) Charles in New Zealand

Hi Charles, I'll let you do the searching because you may come across something else you like while you are doing it: SRHA's TIES Magazine Jack

Hi Fitting in to this discussion is the Ingalls 4-S, built 1946. Construction of the loco was part done in AL Bham and Decatur etc and part in MS. A lot of testing done in .AL. I note that