Attached is the outline of a presentation made at the RPM meeting at Cocoa Beach in 2016 by two excellent railroad historians, Noomi Peterson and Jim Murrie. Their contact information is shown on Page

The Central of Georgia had two number series of coaches. The 500-series were referred to as partitioned coaches because they had a partition near the center in order to comply with the Jim Crow laws.

The article about this car is a disgrace and something that an institution like the Smithsonian should be ashamed of. As Ike said it is pure BS. The history of Jim Crow Laws and the treatment of Afric

I think Floquil had a color they called “Coach Green “ which is close to the color The Smithsonian used. They should know to check things like this. Ed Mims

I fully agree with Fenton Wells also. Now, comes the question: who will set the experts at The Smithsonian straight? Also, there is a copy cat in “The Georgia State Railroad Museum” in Savannah with a

Did the Southern paint it’s coaches a bright green? All that I saw were painted PULLMAN GREEN. None were the color of the car seen in the attached link which is close to being “Kelly” green. If this s

My thought about Walthers is that they don’t worry about the small stuff. The average modeler does not either, so Walthers provides models that sell without caring if it is prototypically correct. Thi

I suspect LCL, Package Car and Peddler might have all been the same. I'm not at all familial with this practice but I know train crews and other railroad employees had their own vocabulary. This vocab