Thanks for the insights, Jim. Scott Chatfield

I asked Ed King if he knew anything about the photo. He did not except to say he did not think it was in Bristol. Ed would certainly know, he is "Mr Steam" and from Bristol. Ike

I own this color negative and the envelope it came in was dated and stated Bristol. The brick building behind the Silverside gon also looks like the yard office that’s still there but there’s

Jim: I don't know myself but info from Ed King is "take it to the bank" stuff. Ike

David: Your points, and questions are excellent. Let me take a stab at an answer….. Yes, there is the concept of multiple “processes” to organize, scan, make available for researchers and

Ike, Thanks for the response. Merry Christmas to you and the list. TBS has already started their annual 24-hour run of A Christmas Story. My replies are embedded within and start with DF and are in

Hello Ike and all, I would recommend looking at the way the NYCSHS has offered their collections up as a way for the archive to hopefully pay for itself and also be a bit more autonomous on requests

I think all the questions about preservation, cost, and use are intertwined. If you have materials out there that people can use, you create a following and a group dedicated to the railway's history

Our partnership with TVRM has allowed us to broaden our exposure to many groups of all ages. Where else can you see 5 operable, 2 steam, Southern Railway locomotives plus other Southern equipment,

N&W 475 is what it's coupled to. I have an original color neg showing that engine with the Silverside coupled to it. N&W 433 was already spotted on the Abingdon panel track display before this date.

A friend of mine sent me the link below to a short video from 2016 regarding the SOU 1200 coach that was placed in the Smithsonian. The video showed some short clips of the car's interior during the

<< On Saturday, April 6, 2019, 07:23:35 PM EDT, Charles Powell <charlesspowell@...> wrote:

Charlie: I helped do the research on that car in the SRHA archives before it went to the Smithsonian. Other than the fact that the toilets at the ends of the car were slightly different sizes, we

Ike, Where did this car color come from? Don On Saturday, April 6, 2019, 07:35:17 PM EDT, George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote:

Don: I know the answer to the car color. The SRHA knows it’s wrong; the Smithsonian chose not to utilize the correct colors, saying that the authentic colors wouldn’t look “right” in the

I’ve attached a low res version of Southern drawing SP-6098 showing the floor plan of partitioned coaches 1200-1206. The variations in the lav. sizes are shown as are the luggage racks on both ends

Bill, Good to hear from you. What a backwards way to do things. It’s not that difficult to use the correct color temp lighting. You’d think they’d never lighted a display before. Wonder how many

We know that the Southern delivered 1401 shopped and painted. There is NO way the railroad would have done it any other way. Now…could we get someone super rich to become railfans and help get the

It is my feeling that the Smithsonian is hung up on the Jim Crow South. The entire exhibit around 1401 is focused on those terrible times and their effect on American Blacks. The rest of the story

Did the Southern paint it’s coaches a bright green? All that I saw were painted PULLMAN GREEN. None were the color of the car seen in the attached link which is close to being “Kelly” green. If