On page 84 of “Appalachian Coal Hauler: Interstate Railroad's Mine Runs and Coal Trains,” there’s a photo of Southern 2182 on a mine run at Kent Jct. There’s a two-aspect colorlight signal to

I was chatting with a friend who was asking about Southern cabs on other roads. It appears that the PC bought 13 of the 1946 cabs in 1971. They also inherited five from the Indianapolis Union

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Jim Wrinn, who aspired since his youth to be the editor of Trains magazine and served in the role for more than 17 years, died at home on March 30, 2022, after a valiant 14-month

Just a little reminder of the NEXT Timonium, Maryland train show in suburban Baltimore, MD. on April 2-3, 2022 That's just 3 days away and this is the rescheduled date, originally slated for later in

Guys, the link below will take you to my SRR Passenger Car Lettering and Paint diagram for Steam

Thanks Bob for the extra bit of history on the photographers and these units. Now to replicate what I see in Warren's photo. David Friedlander

Has there been any word about whether Rapido will be doing the early (1969) as-delivered GP38's? -- Mike Turner MP-Z35

Pretty easy, David. The Warren Calloway photo appears to be the earliest. The Tom Sink and G.M. McDonald photos were both made the same day. Those 2 gents used to be close friends and traveled

Hi all, I'm getting some models ready for the Valley Forge RPM. I've finally come back around to my model of Alco S2 2218 I did many years ago and want to weather it. Went looking for photos and

I would like to know if you have elevation drawings

I am loking for the alco elevation drawing, please help, as I want to engrave thedrawing in brass and attach it to Southern Railway 1643 (now Morehead and Northfork 12) at Age of steam

Planning continues for the joint SRHA/L&NHS Convention and Prototype Modelers meet at TVRM on Sept 29, 30 and Oct 1. (The L&NHS has made arrangements for good hotel rates.) The session, at TVRM Grand

Stephen, Great info—thanks for sharing! I’m trying to imagine an N&W derrick squeezing through the tunnels between St Paul and Norton that were too tight to handle plate C cars—might have been

George, While I did not start to work on the Appalachia Division until the early 70's, The patterns should have been the same. Yes, the Div. HQ originally on the V&SW/S Ry was in Bristol, and the

I posted this to the ACL/SAL list but others may be interested… Ike Begin forwarded message: From: "George Eichelberger" <geichelberger@...> Subject: Re: [SeaboardCoastLineModeler] SAL 591143 -

A long-term SRHA archives project has been to organize and scan all of the various freight and passenger car drawings, Specifications and Card Lists. The work is on-going and help cross reference and

While this is not directly related to this thread, folks might be interested in Bernard Kempinski’s recent (and past) blog posts at https://usmrr.blogspot.com/search/label/Telegraph . Bernie models

You might find some telegraph calls in The Railroad Telegrapher magazine, some issues can be searched on google books. I have searched it mainly for finding interlocker towers in the Southwest.

I'd be interested in any telegrapher information related to the Hendersonville, NC station. We can put it with our telegraph setup. In our museum, we have a telegraphy station set up with 1920s key

Hi Bob, Yes, I have a nice collection of employee TT's and those have come in handy as well. I wasn't aware of Allen's 1912 station list, I'll have to email him and see if he'll send me a copy. He and