Thanks, gents, for the plethora of information on the Vertagreen movements. From your responses I've learned the shipments originated in Rockland, Florida and were routed

I believe the Kansas City - Florida Special was gone by the time of the SCL merger, so the Jessup routing would have no longer had a service advantage. Jack Wyatt

I spent a good bit of time with him in my early days on the ACL. He was very helpful to me. Ed

Ed: Do you recall if the routing via Jessup continued after the SCL merger? Prior to that, the interchange between the ACL and Southern was at Tiftton, GA, nothing was done through Jax. The

Ed Mims

I’ll (try to remember to) look it up when I get home next week.

Thanks for the correction, Bill. That's what I get for not looking it up. Do you recall when the first diesel road-switcher's were assigned? Jack

IIRC, Prince said the Ms Mikados, which were legit on the Evansville and French Lick branches, ferried to the rest of the system via West Baden-Monon-Louisville. —Bill Schafer

Ks 2-8-0 steam locomotives, light Pacific's on the passenger trains, and EMD F-units on the through freights. I believe that one of the branches used Ms 2-8-2's which had to be brought in over the

The service pre-dated SCL, the tank cars were originally stenciled to return to Rockland on the ACL. Note attached photo of Sou 341 stored at the food terminal in Chattanooga, the “ACL” stencil is

Here is a useful website documenting Rockland. It was an old mine from the 1920s and finally shut down in 1994. These shipments would have also been handled by SCL locally prior to

Marv: There was a full article on these cars in TIES magazine a few years ago. Someone needs to help find which issue. It has always been unusual for any railroad to own revenue tank cars. There were

I'm planning on modelling the L&N St. Louis Division - but not really, I can explain. As far as I know, the L&N interchanged with the Southern at Belleville and Mount Vernon in Illinois and Evansville

Marv, The May-June 1998 issue of Ties has an article on the railroad owned tank cars used, but does not have much to say about them being pulled on the end of passenger

Vertagreen is Cherokee,AL. Still in operation and a large customer. CEA

Marv - I recall seeing waybills on similar cars and the origin station was Vertagreen, AL. Obviously, this was one of those stations that was, by rulebook definition, a place identified by name on

Back in the mid-60s Southern routinely handled several tank cars of Vertagreen liquid fertilizer on the rear of Nos 7 & 8, the KC-Florida Special, between Brunswick GA and Birmingham AL. Does anyone

I'm glad you agree, I hope I gain the support of at least a few of the societies.

Hi, A place were the various subsystems are gathered would be nice. But also the option to talk (or read) about the new on the same location would be nice. (With new I'm referring to the new Norflok

Hi, does anyone think a Southern Railway forum could be a good idea? I think if we could get other Southeast railroad historical societies involved such as the ACL-SAL, L&N, and NC&StL, it could