When did the kids in Atlanta make the trip to DC every year? These would have been the patrol students form the metro area school around Atlanta. Jason Greene

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Jason: Heavyweight cars on the Southern Crescent were not common but not unknown. More common were the ex-CofG lightweights off the Nancy Hanks, City of Miami, and/or Man O’War. You’d likely see

Looked thru a few of my slides to locate one showing most or all of the consist, and here is one of #1, at Duluth GA, on April 1, 1978. There are 9 Southern cars, with what looks like at least 2

Were the heavyweight coaches dead head or active? How common would they be on the Crescent? Jason Greene

Because there has been some recent interest in actual consists of the Southern Crescent in its glory days (1972-1979), I have consulted some of my old pocket notebooks and transcribed the consists of

I have 3 new HO resin kits in the works: Southern/original NS 12-post PS 5277 single door boxcar – no waffles. Southern and the original NS were the only roads to order a 12-post 5277 design from

Before the New Car Program (NCP) system, the Southern issued “Specifications” for new rolling stock. The Southern Freight Car Diagram book (published by SRHA) shows “100-Ton 47’-8” Aluminum

They were all built on one order in 1960 before the NCP file system. Dick

Here is a list of color Silversides photos I took over the years. If there is a “pattern” in them, it is that Silversides were delivered with Red lettering in 1960. Green lettering on (1973?)

I agree. I always thought the color was whatever was standard at the time they were painted.. Dick Virus-free. www.avg.com

I have no idea why the gray 70 ton hoppers were painted that way, but I remember seeing them occasionally in Lamberts Point mixed in with black N&W hoppers in the 1980s. As for the Silversides, I’m

He probably is referring to one of these cars; SOU (C of G) HT 74338 I shot at Linwood NC April 19 1986. Bob Graham -----------------------------------------From: "James" To:

Mike: I’ve scanned maybe 4,000 hopper, cov hopper and Silversides drawings and memos…..nothing! I expect many of the Silversides stencil color changes occurred when the cars were modified with

Given that the car vendors built (painted) exactly what SOU specified, I would suggest a quick scan through the NCP folder for an order of Silversides that had varying colors. While it's not certain

Here are two. Only Sou 74505 is properly IDd. I took the photo at Andover, VA 10-2-87. Another photo, Sou 74285, may (!!) have faded green lettering Ike

I always assumed that it was a search for a lettering color which would provide contrast on the TV screens in spite of any overcoating's of dust and grime. Sorry to speculate, but after assuming this

Because the covered hopper were first purchased for different commodities, I have always assumed that maybe the stencil colors on them were to show what they were supposed to carry. The problem with

George, You sparked my interest with the grey 70ton hoppers with black lettering. Might you provide some pictures fo these? James Wall Rural Hall, NC

I would add the Magor hoppers as well. Curt Fortenberry