I think it likely that the traffic feeding into Atlanta, Birmingham, and Chattanooga on the double track was divided over several routes at those cities, or was for places located there (especially At

Thanks John. I've got a February 1979 Freight Train Schedules and Blocking Instructions from this site: http://southern.railfan.net/ For the eastern lines, one of the biggest differences between these

The typical small stations on all of the railroads of in the south were laid out in virtually the same way. Starting at one end of the station, there is the white waiting room. Next is the agent's/ope

You might want to consider the new book from Morning Sun Books, Southern Railway in Color. It includes a good section on the Louisville to St. Louis line. Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

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 t

Here's a train doing something similar in Alexandria. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=736111 Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

The units with white number boards were set up as controlling units. The mid-train locomotives were connected to a radio control car (most looked like boxcars, but only end doors, no side doors). The

My time period is 1974. I like EMD -2s and there was still a passenger train on the line then. Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

Hello Ike; As another modeler of the Southern lines in North Carolina (in my case, the S line from Spencer/Salisbury to Morganton) this doesn't surprise me as much as you might think. I have the good

Thanks Brian. That did it. :) Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

Ike referred me to the ModelingTheSouthern@... for modeling topics on our favorite railroad. I sent a message to that address, but got a delivery failure, "Address not found." I prefer to use the

Is there a seperate modeling group here on groups.io? The title of this group, if you look at the Home page is: Southern Railway Historical and Modeling Information Interchange Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

A good place to start is a Tennessee Division employee timetable (ETT) for the period you're interested in. Look for the "Business Tracks and Stations Not Shown ..." table near the back of the ETT. Th

My recent experience on the Palmetto and the Carolinian on the NE corridor was that there were several cars on the head end on the southbound trains for local traffic, with through passenger being sea

I love these calendars, and this one lives up to their reputation. Lots of great pictures of my favorite railroad. :) Tim Rumph Lancaster, SC

The caption for the picture on the SRHA calendar for January says this is train 256. Then it talks about the Belmont coal train. The Belmont train was 270. Train 256 was the Catawba coal train, headed

I'm modeling that line, but just the Spencer to Clinchcross portion. I've found the "Business Tracks and Stations Not Shown in Station Columns" in the employee timetable to be very helpful. Also, look

I met Matt Bumbarner Saturday at the train show in Gastonia (and bought a signed C&NW book!). I meant to stop by and ask his this, but didn't manage to get back there. 60 and 61 were the local trains

The Southern Railway Building is on the national historic register, and the park service has a web page about it: https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/16000194.htm According to that, the original bui

I think about the only way to do this reasonably is with photo-etched metal. They'll all be the same size and the holes will be centered. Hunt around for someplace that does custom photo-etching. You