Ike, You have succeeded in flushing me out of the woodwork. A few years ago, Mr. Thurston and I were talking a lot about doing a Ludlow bridge building article (largely focusing on the current lift

All: Cincinnati and Ludlow, KY have not had enough written about them over the years. Today, NS posted information about leasing one of the Ludlow Shop buildings to the Ludlow Museum.

Ed, great comment and great photos on the NS enclosure Gerald Robinson

Ike, A friend of mine in Atlanta sent me this copy. I thought it would be interesting to the rest of our membership so I’m forwarding it to you. There are some very good photos in it. Enjoy!

Thanks! We are fortunate to have people knowledgable on every “nook and cranny” of the Southern. I took the attached photo of F-7A 4254 in Hazelhurst, GA on a typical (blazing hot!) August day in

Hi George, The line from Valdosta - Ray City – Nashville – Willacoochee is run by CaterParrott Railnet. They have been upgrading and improving service over the last few years. They also have a

I just got back from the Cocoa Beach RPM. (Two rather different routes, going from Atlanta via I-75 and the Fla. turnpike to Orlando then the toll road to CCB along the route Bright Line is building

Hello all, looking to have HO scale decals made for the early DS paint scheme. To my knowledge these are not available commercialy. So I have a few assumptions and a few questions for the group to

Simply "as info"... As of today, there are 185 in the "Modeling the Southern.io" group and 512 in "SouthernRailway.groups.io. I'll ask Dan Sparks to cross reference the subscribers on those lists to

Mike, back in February I explained to the Modeling The Southern list (a sublist of this list) how I kitbashed an old Walthers/Heljan Thrall gon into a Greenville. It is titled Workbench Wednesday

Although I have no idea what some of the items Ford wanted installed in the 800 86' auto parts cars shown on the attached are, taken together the three pages give an idea of how closely the railroads

From the SRHA Archives: Both Alcoa and Reynolds Aluminum maintained lists of commodities that could be carried in freight cars made with their aluminum without voiding the warranties. Here (attached)

Ike, Thanks for the info. I will work from my photos and scale it from those and known dimensions. Mike

Southern 70-T 52’-6” high side gons were built on New Car Program (NCP) 149 by Greenville Steel Car as their Lot 1101 in 1975. The General Arrangement drawing is Greenville 37115, stencil drawing

Thanks Jack!

I would like to create a model of a 1975 vintage Greenville Steel Car Gondola. Number series 66090-66699, AAR Type E534. Some are still in use for MW service and have been seen around my home area.

Fwiw one of Southern's 1950's coal trains off their Appalachia Division carried the nickname "The Birmingham Special". This from an Ed Wolfe book. I recall seeing solid coal trains running through

For anyone planning to come to this weekend’s SRHA archives work session, we are still asking that only fully vaccinated people participate. Even then, we will follow the Federal/TVRM mask mandate

James, ETT's don't usually give the interchange points for revenue and routing purposes, but they give crossings and junctions. From 9/29/1946 ETT. Jack

Hi Jack, would that ETT happen to mention where interchanges were on the division?