That's interesting, Scott. I'd be very interested to know when it wore the blue paint. I used to live in Newnan, Georgia not far from Plant Yates and Plant Wansley, so ever since I saw the publicity

In this discussion I was referring to the N scale model only to point out that it had all the data one would expect to find on the other cars in the series. I wonder if this was based in fact or if it

I've got the impression that Ortner hopper only had that scheme for a short period of time. It might have made a few trips in blue, but since it wasn't in interchange service they might not have felt

The Southern did not have classes for the freight cars. The drawings are however for specific number series of cars. Jason Greene

Here are two photos of Sou 550550. One is when the car was turned over to the Southern, the second photo is the only time I saw the car long after it was painted. The “in service” photo was taken

I cannot locate data on the Ortner car but recall it was the standard stencil arrangement with the 10,000 car stencil added. Other than that, it was the standard stencil scheme except on a blue

That Ortner rapid discharge hopper was a one-of-a-kind commemorative paint livery car, similar to the Pullman-Standard 200,000th car SOU boxcar 550555 that ran around for quite a while in its

Ryan: The Southern was rather particular about how its rolling stock was painted and lettered. It produced stencil drawings for different car types and updated drawings as lettering standards

I've only seen one photo of the 10,000th Rapid Discharge Car, Southern 390399: http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1980/80-11/ortner.html In this photo the car appears to be marked with only the large

These cars have the thin large "SOUTHERN" and numerals on the sides of the car similar to the three bay hoppers in the 360xxx series. This thin style of letters and numbers is difficult to pin

Jack: I will be doing this in HO Scale. I have some of the Sanborn maps that I have been able to see online and my friend Jim King is also helping me out as well as Gordon from the Murphy Branch

I have attached one of many items in the SRHA archives that document Southern's business carrying auto parts. Because of the Ford and GM assembly plants in Atlanta, Southern participated in equipment

Southern was nowhere near unique for this little idiom. The B&O used it on the names of stations' signs at the various locations as noted on many early photographs and likely even much later. Bob

Well Bill, then hooray for tradition! Doug On Monday, November 18, 2019, 04:22:22 PM EST, Bill Schafer <bill4501@...> wrote:

No, but it seems to me to have been a common convention at the turn of the last century. And the Wall Street Journal still places a period at the end of its title, even on the app on my cell phone,

Did you ever get an answer to your "period question"? I have noticed that on a lot of advertising of the era. I think that the last holdout, naturally, was the Wall Street Journal, which ran a

Ike, I'm going through my enormous backlog of emails and happened on this. I don't know if you found a solution, but if not, why not call the nice ladies at Catzpaw in Griffin. They do 3-D

Thanks to Rick Bell, a list of Southern "SCPs" (Special Car Programs) and the later "CP" (Car Programs) is on the "Public" part of the SRHA file server. Use the same URL, etc. described for the

Mike: There is a lot (!) of material available on the S Line and Murphy branch but I have to ask; How much detail are you going to model? My own layout covers only from Murphy Jct to Old Fort (an old

I'm modeling that line, but just the Spencer to Clinchcross portion. I've found the "Business Tracks and Stations Not Shown in Station Columns" in the employee timetable to be very helpful. Also, look