Bill, Good to hear from you. What a backwards way to do things. It’s not that difficult to use the correct color temp lighting. You’d think they’d never lighted a display before. Wonder how many

I’ve attached a low res version of Southern drawing SP-6098 showing the floor plan of partitioned coaches 1200-1206. The variations in the lav. sizes are shown as are the luggage racks on both ends

Don: I know the answer to the car color. The SRHA knows it’s wrong; the Smithsonian chose not to utilize the correct colors, saying that the authentic colors wouldn’t look “right” in the

Ike, Where did this car color come from? Don

Charlie: I helped do the research on that car in the SRHA archives before it went to the Smithsonian. Other than the fact that the toilets at the ends of the car were slightly different sizes, we

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A friend of mine sent me the link below to a short video from 2016 regarding the SOU 1200 coach that was placed in the Smithsonian. The video showed some short clips of the car's interior during the

In the picture SOU72747_3.tif, the brake step appears to be a slotted Apex design. Is this correct? Did all the SOU 70t 3bay AAR hoppers use this brake step? There appear to be hopper door locks

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

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