Another thing I would like too add, since I’m a new member and I clearly don’t know my way around here could anyone tell me what you mainly do here? Another question I have is that are the

Hi I’m new to the group and am still learning how this works but I thought I’d make a post on what I’m most interested in. Southern steam color photographs, I love seeing southern steam engines

I am not familiar with these operations, but I thought of possible research source, that might answer questions. You might look at the ICC annual reports for these railroads , which had some

Since you had three pairs of through trains which ran over the N&W, N&W dining car crews were entitled to part of the business. In earlier times the dining car on the Birmingham Special all the way to

I hadn't thought about a TC office car. That would make sense. Perhaps it was only two diners being removed and serviced at Knoxville. But my ancient memory says one, most likely the Tennessean was

I have seen 2 other possibilities, since TC pass. ended in about 1955. TC served Ft. Campbell and the cars you saw might have been troop movements. I saw those trains a couple of times near my home

Very curious. Around that time, The Tennessean did indeed have a DC - Knoxville diner-lounge, Interesting, the Carolina Special also had a Knoxville - Columbia diner-lounge. This idea seems crazy, but

Back in 1958 and 1959, at age 15 & 16, I worked at the Southern Railway Passenger station in Knoxville, Tn. I only worked during the summers while school was out. I worked the evening shift from 3 pm

A&Y, Also try this interactive satellite view with historic map overlay. North Carolina Maps: City of Winston-Salem Zone Map, 1930 (unc.edu) Friday, June 10, 2022, 11:24:38 AM, you

Try: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06522_010/ Sent from Dave Bott's iPhone

Does anyone have an old map (30's or 40's or older ) of Winston Salem NC

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Looking for experts and interested parties: Among the Mr. Marvin Black’s major research files, Binder No 88 includes many documents, diesel orders and correspondence from and about the C&NW, BR,

Hi Gary Thanks for your reply with helpful suggestions. I checked out the TN valuation maps on the link, and they are very useful, lots to study. I will now have a look at the aerial photos. Thanks

James and everyone: A large percentage of ALL SR ETTs are in the SRHA archives and have ben scanned. The intention has been to publish the entire collection, most likely on-line. If any SRHA members

Hey all, does anyone happen to have scans of any employee timetables for the Atlanta-Birmingham line they would be willing to share? Timetables for the 40s and 50s would be great, but I'll gladly

Hi, Sandy. The Tennessee Comptroller's Office has valuation maps of all railroads in Tennessee available for free download

Hello Sandy and all Some suggestions: Try accessing Sanborn maps through the Library of Congress website Search: loc sanborn maps Memphis Try contacting the Memphis Rail and Trolley Museum, Mike

Hello I posted a request for information about Memphis City Yard in the 1960s yesterday. I forgot to mention that I would also be interested in Memphis employee timetables, freight train procedures

Mike Condron’s site is great but you already got that. I don’t know if Steve Forrest is on this group but he’d be another good source. He shot a lot of slide in that area a little later than