As president of the SRHA I'd like to welcome everyone to this new group. I'd also like to invite those interested to participate in our archive work at the TVRM.

Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the

Bro. Webster says that "despatch" is a variation of "dispatch." Apparently both are correct. Bob Hanson

Ike: The Oxford English Dictionary lists both spellings with equal status. “Dispatch” is by far the more common spelling, uniquely so in the 16th, 17th, and 18th-century examples. “Despatch”

Ike, Per a dictionary, "despatch" has the same meaning as "dispatch", but was a common spelling in the 19th century before dispatch became the more common spelling. Darrell Sawyer

I “get” the two spellings but why did the railroad(s) chose to use the archaic version on car sides but not the contract wording? …..I’ll go with Bill Schafer’s “Victorian” era concept.

I have always liked how the Southern's modified E-6s looked.. As soon as I saw the Proto 2000 E-6s I have wanted to modify one in the same style. The pier panels on the body castings Athern uses in

[In case anyone was wondering if Ike is nuts, here's your evidence....] Ike wrote: >BUT, there is a problem. All other piping on Es and Fs is just piping, the E-6s have 4x4" cooling fins. I can cut

I think about the only way to do this reasonably is with photo-etched metal. They'll all be the same size and the holes will be centered. Hunt around for someplace that does custom photo-etching. You

Ike, Thanks for posting this. This was a detail I was hoping to figure out how to do in O scale at some point. Two questions. 1. Are there any existing good photos of what these look like? 2. The

First of all, to everyone that has joined the Southern Railway group..... Hello and welcome to the new Southern Railway group sponsored by the Southern Railway Historical Association. Membership in

Anybody know the story behind this shot? I didn't know the Silversides ever went off-line. That appears to be a switcher's tender it's coupled to.

Probably new en route. I see a builder's date of 2/60. If I remember correctly N&W ran steam through April 1960, though increasingly isolated. Thanks for sharing. This is something which you never

They would have been brand new if they were switched by N&W steam. I don’t know the answer, but since the photo was taken in Bristol, the car could have been touched by N&W in the joint N&W-SOU yard

My guess (emphasize GUESS) is that SOU silverside shown in the slide is not being worked by N&W steam, but is coupled to N&W class M 4-8-0 433 (for some reason) that was restored cosmetically and is

I was thinking there must have some kind of display in Bristol for PR. The freshly painted tender is the give away with that late date. I think Bob Graham may be right, the Abington engine that was

My guess: the hopper was newly built and was being routed to the nearest SOU interchange point for delivery to SOU. Mike Turner MP-Z35

They were built in Birmingham.

Another point re: this 1960 shot of Silverside and N&W 475 I just sent: the last steam on N&W was in Williamson WV, a lowly 0-8-0, in May 1960. I don’t know if 475 was serviceable to be

This is the other end of the Silverside shot. 475 was dolled up for the famous 1957 NRHS convention and used for special occasions afterward and stored in Shaffer’s Crossing r/h in between. It now