Try a thru freight with a pair of F-7s back-to-back followed by three SW1500s on a 150 car train . . .

Here’s another advantage to those SW1500s being delivered on Flexicoil trucks: they could be used as road power in a pinch. When I was in Southern’s training program in Greensboro 1971-1972, many of t

Robert: You have the complete set. The two volumes with the SR-arrow monogram were bound and sold by SRHA; the Second Supplement was produced by the Southern in 1958. NS donated the guts of Vols 1 and

Total: 66 Legal Histories, beside what was stashed away in the archives (obviously, the unbound copies were not counted). As I suspected, a lot of division (outside) counsels had a copy. Memos from Mr

I have seen a number of sets of bound volumes of the Legal History over the years, and the bindings seem to have been customized a number of different ways. The most common appears to be the main Lega

My hat is off to those who had the patience to scan those 1523 pages! This appears to be just the first two (original) volumes and does not include the 1921 and 1958 supplements. —Bill

Thanks for the heads-up

And you were required to use LDX pens for these reports? Interesting. Do you know of any other departments or reports (other than switch lists and waybill headers) that required the use of LDX pens? T

Thanks, Charlie, How were the reports submitted? Did they get sent somewhere by LDX machine or fax? —Bill

That’s the point of the article, which will explain why they were no longer required by 1978.

"Remember the red ball point pens for time tickets?” Oh, do we remember those red ball point pens! The ones that would leak in your shirt pocket. The story of those pens and their history is a tale th

I'm trying to wrap up 2021-3 TIES - its deadline is April 25, and I don't have many (or any) images for the time period covered by the 3rd installment (1935-1950) of our Akron Branch series. If anyone

Fairfax Harrison certainly didn’t/couldn’t adapt and it darn near bankrupted the railroad during the depression. One of the factors that nearly sank SOU in the 1930s was that SOU eventually closed the

I don’t know. I assume that if the RR was paying taxes on the line when it was in service, it would pay taxes on it if it remained in place even if unused. Just my guess.

Southern wanted out too; it just was sneakier about it. Before Amtrak, box meals were often offered after dining cars were removed from Southern trains. This was a good news/bad news situation - the g

Good recall, Bob. My date was based on the timetable date. Sounds like Southern added food service before May 1974, but maybe not much before - I have a feeling they tried to get by with no food servi

Southern Railway’s trains 47/48, the Southerner, became trains 1/2, the Southern Crescent, in the February 1970 timetable. In October 1970, you were riding the Southern Crescent.

I’m not as familiar with the coach and sleeper attendants. In the Southern Crescent era, most (but not all) were based in Atlanta. I think the coach porters may have worked on a divisional basis, but

This is in reply to Steve Ellis's follow-up question about dining car crew bases other than Atlanta. I'm starting a new thread. The November 20, 1970 timetable is the first that shows the Southern Cre

In the years of the post-Amtrak Southern Crescent, the dining and lounge car crews were based in Atlanta. The train ran overnight, every night Atlanta-Washington, and tri-weekly Atlanta-New Orleans. A