Every trackage rights or joint trackage arrangement, Union Station agreement, crossing or interchange between railroads was documented by a contract or agreement negotiated and signed by the parties.

Good to see it all coming together, George. I’ll be at the museum the weekend of November 9-11 and hope to take a peek if you or someone with access is around. ~ Marv

If you "give" some to Steve, you need to "give" some to me at HTK, too! Just sayin'. Doug

All: This is a repost since I think the original was deleted. —Bill

TIES Magazine is the quarterly journal of the Southern Railway Historical Association. It is nominally 32 pages, with prototype articles, mention of notable restorations of Southern Railway equipment

Thanks Dave. Sounds like a subject for a trip next year, since my vacation's done for this year. Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

You actually want the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park. Note that this is a multi-day visit most times. You order things, they find them on MASSIVE compact shelving units,

Tim: I understand the ICC records (the originals) are in a warehouse in MD. I cannot imagine how big the place must be after seeing the scope of what SRHA has for just the Southern and CofG…imagine

Thanks Ike. This should help finding things even in other collections. I'll be going to the Washington, DC, area this week for the MER convention. If things are on time, I may hit the Library of

Before posting some examples of rolling stock data from the ICC forms, here are the "index" maps showing the Valuation Sections for the Southern Railway. Note that other parts of the "Southern Railway

Scott: Sorry for the delay posting you question. A list moderator has to okay only the first post from a subscriber. There is no way to change that but it would keep us from being overrun by a

A friend asked me today if the Southern's roof hatch boxcars (AAR class LC) were used for anything other than kaolin. When I worked there they were mostly used for kaolin shipments to Mexico, and I

Dear list, I've been organizing and scanning my prints as well as my collected electronic images of A&Y locomotives for several months. In addition, I'm combing through the correspondence files to

Or an Alabama football site.

Hi Ike Thanks for your email and offer to locate reference re Ingalls. No hurry to locate just when you come across it again. Regards Charles New Zealand

Marv: I just fixed the photo…. I could not figure out how to replace the elephants but it turned out it took longer to upload the photo than I was giving it to finish. Waddya think of the

Thanks for the invitation to membership. May I suggest a different photo for the home page? Seeing a herd of elephants, at first I thought I might have been fooled into joining a Republican party

Ike pages 16 and 17 are missing from this. Rick

Charles: While researching the Southern diesel book, I found a reference to the Ingalls locomotive. I will dig though what I've accumulated and see if I can find that reference. We will also look in

Ike pages 16/17 are missing from this document. Rick