Bill, I’ve just listed on Ebay a slide of SOU 550555 taken the month the car was released by Pullman-Standard. It’s probably too late to be used with your article, but let me know if you need a

There are simply too many pages in the ICC rolling stock accounts to put on line so I have copied a sample of what is in the SRHA archives. The Google Drive link is:

The SRHA Archives Work Session schedule has been set through 2019, beginning with Oct 19-20 (Fri-Sat) this month. These dates, along with any changes, will also be posted here and on our website:

Yesterday at the SRHA archives, I scanned a file that included a letter from Mr. W.E. Dillard, President of the Central of Georgia Railroad to Mr. D.W. Brosnan, President of the Southern dated August

Ike; Thank you again for putting all of these little gems someplace where we can get at them. ;) Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

All: Here is an interesting series of emails about the Southern’s “Arrow” monogram (I have never seen the word “logo” in company documentation.) Can anyone provide any additional

Ike - I have read that the arrow-through-initials herald (monogram/medallion) originated, not with the R&D, but with the Georgia Pacific Railway. I can't definitely cite the source of the

Bob: Thanks! Maybe you could scan or take a photo of the Georgia Pacific “logo”. I’ve attached the only GP letterhead scanned to date. Obviously, it is from the R&D receivership era. The second

There's a letter from the president (1916? Or so) in Southern News Bulletin terminating the use of the SR and arrow, and introducing the new one. Ri m

Thanks, Rick, for the memory jog. Here is the excerpt from the October 1915 Southern News Bulletin announcing the official adoption of the SR monogram as the company trademark. No mention is made of

Ike - Here are scans of the front and back of the pass I mentioned. I realize that it is from 1894, long after the R&D assumed control of the GP, but I have read, can't remember where, that the

Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the

Bro. Webster says that "despatch" is a variation of "dispatch." Apparently both are correct. Bob Hanson

Ike: The Oxford English Dictionary lists both spellings with equal status. “Dispatch” is by far the more common spelling, uniquely so in the 16th, 17th, and 18th-century examples. “Despatch”

Ike, Per a dictionary, "despatch" has the same meaning as "dispatch", but was a common spelling in the 19th century before dispatch became the more common spelling. Darrell Sawyer

I “get” the two spellings but why did the railroad(s) chose to use the archaic version on car sides but not the contract wording? …..I’ll go with Bill Schafer’s “Victorian” era concept.

With SEARS bankruptcy in the news, it may be interesting to mention how "big" they were in the Southern's LCL business. SEARS had a distribution facility on the Southern belt line in Atlanta. The

Here is an aerial photo of the Spencer Transfer, which is mentioned prominently in the document that Ike posted. This is just south of the shops, adjacent to what is now called "Old Spencer Yard". The

When I was with Wabco at that time we were directed to make shipments from Pittsburgh in the daily Spencer Transfer car, arriving 3 days later at Spencer. Dick Fisher

<< Here are two items that will be included in a package car article being researched for TIES. We have two complete package car schedules in the SRHA archives, if anyone can copy or donate anything