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

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

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'

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:

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

Hi In above post there is mention of " I recall someone doing a series on Mobile facilities in TIES. Frank Ardrey did a photo series on Birmingham in TIES. " Is someone able to come up with the

I managed to drop my text from the message transmitting the Erie RR's diagram. I have not found a Southern Railway diagram for the Ms-7 so I thought that some of you would like to see the Erie's. Jack

Very true - though perhaps Tony Koester and his concept of 'selective compression' may be able to help. That is, cut out the things you don't need to focus on showing a version of what you do need.

On Sunday, September 19, 2021, 05:35:21 PM EDT, Brent Greer <studegator@...> wrote: The most recent post on the locomotives of the

That’s likely an understatement. Railroads are HUGE. The yard in Mount Airy, NC in HO scale is 27 feet long and more than 6 feet wide. That’s the end of of a small short line/branch. Birmingham

In my recent reply, I failed to say early diesel switcher assignments, but Jason is right - a lot of steam switchers were still operating in the mid-forties. Jack

You're welcome, James. Southern Railway kept a good list of early switcher assignments, so basically name a date. Of course tackling modeling a major terminal in anything less than a club-sized layout

0-8-0s and 2-8-0s were common in the yards in both Atlanta and Birmingham. Birmingham also had some 0-6-0s still lingering. I Birmingham the Southern interchanged with just about everyone. You had

Thanks all, what you've shown has really helped. Does anyone know what switchers the Southern tended to use in their Atlanta and Birmingham yards at this time? Does anyone know what companies the

Sorry, but apparently Mr Brain and Mr Memory were both having bad days at the office. for "1492 (though she seems to have moved around a bit during and after WW2)" please read "1482" and forget the