Hello all, looking to have HO scale decals made for the early DS paint scheme. To my knowledge these are not available commercialy. So I have a few assumptions and a few questions for the group to

Mike, back in February I explained to the Modeling The Southern list (a sublist of this list) how I kitbashed an old Walthers/Heljan Thrall gon into a Greenville. It is titled Workbench Wednesday

Although I have no idea what some of the items Ford wanted installed in the 800 86' auto parts cars shown on the attached are, taken together the three pages give an idea of how closely the railroads

From the SRHA Archives: Both Alcoa and Reynolds Aluminum maintained lists of commodities that could be carried in freight cars made with their aluminum without voiding the warranties. Here (attached)

Ike, Thanks for the info. I will work from my photos and scale it from those and known dimensions. Mike

Southern 70-T 52’-6” high side gons were built on New Car Program (NCP) 149 by Greenville Steel Car as their Lot 1101 in 1975. The General Arrangement drawing is Greenville 37115, stencil drawing

Thanks Jack!

I would like to create a model of a 1975 vintage Greenville Steel Car Gondola. Number series 66090-66699, AAR Type E534. Some are still in use for MW service and have been seen around my home area.

Fwiw one of Southern's 1950's coal trains off their Appalachia Division carried the nickname "The Birmingham Special". This from an Ed Wolfe book. I recall seeing solid coal trains running through

James, ETT's don't usually give the interchange points for revenue and routing purposes, but they give crossings and junctions. From 9/29/1946 ETT. Jack

Hi Jack, would that ETT happen to mention where interchanges were on the division?

Ike, sorry that I can't make it. Maybe in a few months. Jack

Jack: I agree that ETTs do not tell much about train consists but quantity, running times, how long they were in yards, not to mention the NA track profile may provide a hint. Although I do not know

Thanks Ike, but ETT's will not tell you the classification of traffic and the blocking of trains. I do have a 1946 Birmingham ETT and it does look like a series of no. 54's eastbound could have

Jack: Someone can check the ETTs at the archives this weekend (Fri & Sat) but I suspect most Atl-Mem traffic went via Chattanooga. Between coal traffic and operations on the NA, I cannot see that as

Aidrian, Excellent summary, Aidrian. I agree about the tank car business. Though mostly single car, my impression was that the Birmingham Division had a good variety. One small part of the business,

When just about everything went by rail your "anything and everything" is spot on, but there were some local characteristics. I have notes here and there, but they aren't well indexed so this is a

One routing that I am curious about is how traffic went during that period between Atlanta and Memphis. Was it via Birmingham or via Chattanooga? Jack Wyatt

I already suspect the answer to this is "anything and everything," considering Atlanta and Bham were massive industrial centers. I suspect the Southern was similar to many railroads in that they

Wow! Donnie, thanks for posting this! -Ed Burnett, Lynchburg, VIRGINIA