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

Fascinating tidbit, Scott - I never knew that. Thanks.

Here’s what they looked like in service. The conversion to passenger service came fairly late in the game - 1951, at Hayne. They were converted from 50’ freight boxcars built by Mt. Vernon Car in 1938

Felix is talking about pre-Amtrak or early-Amtrak days. Some years after Amtrak began operating, in the 1980s I think, they got some federal money to enlarge the clearances in the Capitol Hill tunnels

I meant to say that the image was of the newer of the old buildings on Penna Ave. Even though this area has long since been taken over by government office buildings, the Old Post Office still stands

Location of original SOU office buildings in Washington, D.C. was at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, a block west of the old Post Office at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue. Southern added to these buildings over t

For the 2021-2 TIES, currently being composed, we are in immediate need of the following images: * A photograph - any photograph, no matter how old or how crappy - of the Marion Junction, Ala., depot.

Thank you, Mike, for submitting the material. —Bill