Um, the phrase is “Keep the Green Light shining.” Just sayin’. Another iPhone-generated message

What time era are you interested in? In the 1970s, we painted the derails white. Otherwise, no other indication was necessary. —Bill

No - much earlier than that. November 24, 1963. The photographer chased the train from Almond to Enka on a glorious fall day. Another photographer, David Salter, also chased that train - different yea

Jim: The office car special on the Murphy Branch was photographed by Harry Bundy, who spent a career with, and retired from, Norfolk Southern. Harry went to college in western North Carolina and is an

That’s generally what happened - adding/subtracting cars for locals to use on the NEC between Washington and New York - to the secondary trains from the south, mentioned by Michael Young. You experien

Interesting reading. If anybody doubted that the U.S. was gearing up for war before Pearl Harbor, this memo should put those doubts to rest. The memo came from “H A D”, Harry A. DeButts, at the time V

Pullman green, maybe, but two-tone gray more likely. Most pictures I have seen of pool cars on SOU in the 1950s are gray.

To help you narrow down exactly when the 6 sec-6 DBR cars operated on 33-34, this is what the passenger timetables indicate: Feb. 15, 1953 timetable South - car SR12 North - car L42 New York-New Orlea

A few clarifications for Sandy Smart: * OSM does indeed stand for “Oil Spray Machine” (or “spraying”). As Ike says below, the alpha-numeric numbers were converted to 99XXXX-series MofW numbers in 1969

Thanks for the correction, Tim. That was the one caption I farmed out, but I probably would have made the same mistake if I had written it. I’ll mention the error in TIES. Best wishes, —Bill

Green lettering. Unfortunately, too few well-lit photos of the monogram in the green era exist, and too many of those have been duplicated so many times that the color has shifted. When duplicated, th

Dave: The sheet metal monogram used on F-units in, say, the 1950s, was green and (imitation) gold. I owned one, and donated it to TVRM. —Bill

Rick: Those who live in glass houses . . .😜 —Bill Another iPhone-generated message

Excellent explanation. I expect those wood boxcars were nearly all ghosts. I remember when I was in the training program in Greensboro the mechanical Dept used a wood boxcar - sans trucks, in the weed

I’ll (try to remember to) look it up when I get home next week.

IIRC, Prince said the Ms Mikados, which were legit on the Evansville and French Lick branches, ferried to the rest of the system via West Baden-Monon-Louisville. —Bill Schafer

Many thanks to those on the list who came through with excellent photos and other information concerning Southern Railway’s aggregate hoppers, the first of which was constructed by the Greenville Stee

Thanks, Jack and Ike. I have the Diesels of the Southern Railway book here at home, but I don’t have it memorized yet. :-)

I'm not a locomotive expert by any means, and one of our colleagues from White River Productions, Dale Sanders, has posed a question I hope someone in the group can answer. Dale says: I'm in the proce

No, but it seems to me to have been a common convention at the turn of the last century. And the Wall Street Journal still places a period at the end of its title, even on the app on my cell phone, an