A&Y, Southern, and ICC Valuation Fans, Can someone familiar with the ICC valuation records help me interpret the attached pages from an engineers' notebook? These images are of pages from the

Dave … I have a few pix of 9-rib gons; 2 show 1938 and 1941 built dates. It’s been a LONG time since I researched the 11-rib gon (when I produced the HO kit in 2006) so don’t know if ALL of the

While we’re on the topic, Gordon Andrews recalls that, as a kid in Virginia, he saw the section gangs burning the brush and grass on the right-of-way every year. Here’s my reply: The spectacle you

Specific to the Southern? no. This was general business and technological history of the 20th century from grad school. I can get articles and studies to back up the claim and to see if it was as

Wow! I had no idea labor would have been such a large percentage back then. I was thinking the swing would have been later. Thanks for the info! Darrell Sawyer

A quick comment from a new subscriber...... I was working a summer job as a "Rodman" on a surveying crew in Birmingham in 1966 and remember seeing a work train spraying "fuel" on the right of way in

Certainly an interesting series of comments! All are certainly logical and probably contributed to the decision to get rid of section houses. Could the fact that most of the company house designs;

There's a pie chart in the 1961 annual report that shows that 37.9% of the company's expenses were payroll expenses. By far the largest single item.\ The next largest was the catchall "other

Dave, Do you have anything to backup your statement that "the biggest expense was payroll"? Thanks, Darrell Sawyer

This sounds as plausible as any theory. There was the restructuring to simplify the corporate complexity to save money and deal with the funded debt that was due. This would be another way to save

I am a 1/87 scale modeler. The problem with Speedwitch kits is that they aren't making any (Ted has a full time job in NY and I don't want to wish him to be unemployed again, even if it would mean

Ike: My sense is that mechanization was a major driver in the reduction, or elimination, of MofW section gangs and the need for section houses. I’d like to see some documentation of this hunch, but

Two days of work in the SRHA archives has turned up yet another category of Southern Railway data...and a question. After WWII, there were a number of "programs" that included the retirement of

Speedwitch is the only other source for HO Southern low side gon kits besides mine (that were sold only thru SRHA). Like most of Speedwitch’s kits, you have to find them on the secondary market.

The CofG #665 is one of the cars that came to Alaska RR. Curt Fortenberry

The question is scale. Jim King knows that my interest is S, presumably David and Dan are HO and Jim has re-entered the O-scale market. Jack Wyatt

I'll add to Jack and Dave's interest in an un-rebuilt gon kit. Dan Miller

Jack has a more direct way of getting to the point...so I’ll follow his lead: Anything for 1934? Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

The pictures went to Charlie Poling and Chris Williams. Their company, East Tn Railcar owns the car. It is currently in storage awaiting restoration. It’s safe and in a good home.

Any hope of producing a kit of the un-rebuilt car? Jack