Everyone is probably aware of how “low” PC was in the early 1970s. Freight traffic through its southern gateways at Pot Yard and the N&W through Harrisburg was considered short haul traffic not

Hello Jack, Guess I did leave that important bit out. 1977-1982 would be my focus, as it allows for GP50s and some of the earlier GEs at the same time. Thanks, Alex

Alex, what time period? Jack Wyatt

Does anyone make original NS decals in HO that can be adapted to this car? Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/

Hello everyone, Micro-Trains just released an N Scale Southern single window coach with road number 4500. I was wondering how common single window coaches were on the Southern, and does anyone have

It has been some time since I looked at scans of the of the oldest Southern passenger car drawings, I revisited a series of “standard” car drawings from 1904 and 05. It took the Southern about

Alex, I saw a posting on the "Trainorders" website with link to an author's website advertising a book "Railroads of Indiana" for $59.00. There was a short video clip showing some of the photos in the

This photo was taken probably on August 6 or 7 1970 at what was left of Terminal Station, Birmingham, when Pullman-Standard’s 200,000th boxcar, SOU 555055, was on display (right in picture) in the

I’m gonna concur with Senior Graham on this one. Enlarging the picture it is clearly black. Jason Greene

The lettering on SOU 1116 sure looks black to me. FWIW, I saw and photographed more of the 1960's era all-aluminum cars (4000 series cement covered hoppers, 6200 series 3 bay covered hoppers and Big

Now that would be interesting to see. I will seach on Flickr and see what I can turn up. Thanks again Stuart! Thanks, Alex

Thanks Stuart! Thats really interesting about the robot power and its arrangement. I will try and find some info about the coal train. It Thanks, Alex

Thanks for that info and link Tim, greatly appricated! Thanks, Alex

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-Southern-SOU-1116-Hopper-Car-August-1970/373115491098?hash=item56df6a931a:g:aZIAAOSwlGZfDhpG Looks to have been repainted at Coster prior to this 1970

To add to this, I don’t remember which train it was, but we used to see run through BN power come into Louisville from St Louis. Stuart Thayer

There is a "Freight Train Schedules and Blocking Instructions" for 1979 available here: http://southern.railfan.net/paper/sr_paper.html At a first glance through the index, here are the trains I see

Alex, There were also trains 123 and 124 which were about the hottest trains on that line. Used to watch 124 come off the K&IT bridge in New Albany in the afternoons heading west. It usually had big

Hello everyone, I in the planning stages of of a HO-scale layout based on the Louisville to St. Louis line. I've tried searching on the web for informating on the line but have had no luck. Primarily

Thanks, Robert. I completely missed seeing those vertical numbers until much later, after my reply to Fenton. Elsewise I wouldn't have ID'd it incorrectly. I'm so accustomed to seeing white horizontal

Mr. Schmidt, The signal illustrated in Fenton's photo at the start of the Saluda timing section is a 2 aspect signal, not a single fixed aspect. SOU fixed aspect signals on Eastern Lines in modern