Fenton, With my kids & grandkids celebrating father’s day, I was not able to send you the files I had promised. I’ll send them tomorrow. J. C.

Charles: Can you give me an approximate date the unit was in Atlanta? That would narrow the number of Presidents files to look for this weekend. If the loco got from Ingalls in Pascagola to Atlanta on

Thanks big D

Hi George Thanks for your response. As much as I would like to make it to the work session, I cannot, live in New Zealand! If you happen to come across any reference to the Ingalls that would be

Charles: While I do not know of anything in the SRHA archives on the Ingalls locomotive, there are thousands of files in the collection, so I can say “maybe”. There is an archives work session

In the Atlanta Constitution newspaper for Thursday 21 March 1946, page 14, there was an article headed 'Terminal' Host To First Diesel Built In The South. This outlined an exhibition being held that

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OK should see you Thursday AM maybe 10ish? RB

Although there is much work to be done on the complete set (there is one file per year of the Southern 1894-1982), here is a draft version of two Southern Railway Presidents' Files finding aids. They

Fenton, I uploaded files to the resin car list files section for ORERs from years 1930, 35, 45, 50, and 55. The total size was close to 20MB (some are larger than others). If anyone else needs these,

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7n8p5v9x1t_17_1?q=train&offset=300&per_page=100 Interesting photo of a derrick with a cover. -- Mike Turner MP-Z35

Fenton, I should be able to send these to you tomorrow or Saturday. J. C. Paschal

If anybody has copies of these 1937 and 1940 ORER for SR Freight, could you please scan and send them to me. Thanking all in advance Fenton

Mike, The line to Cherokee ran from Ela on the Southern … it was called the Appalachian Ry. Remnants of the bridge piers/abutments where the line crossed the river near Ela are, supposedly,

This is interesting. I had not heard about the Southern & Southwestern Railway Club in about 30 years and had assumed that it had vanished. I was once president of the club in the mid-80s. It was

Thanks Ed and Robert. Organization still going. A reply I got gave me a contact. Details of there comments:- ****************** My name is Mike Rutkowski, and I'm currently the Secretary for the

Jim: I agree with your logic but the Southern was strict about reporting accounts to the ICC. SRHA does have the Southern’s (and CofG) carbon copies of all/most of the ICC Forms 588-R “Report to

Ike, Interesting tidbit re: tt's and wyes. The wye at Canton was still used when I was there 1977-81 and we had to turn an engine once after it broke an air pipe following a hard coupling and swapped

The Atlanta Constitution is now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Try reaching them at ajc.com/contacts. This will give you a list of contacts and their e-mail addresses. Or you can phone them at

I’m pretty certain that the Southern and Southwestern Railway Club became inactive many years ago. In its last years N&W and Southern (and NS) would not support it. This spread to the other