Paul: Below are two pages from the register book at Marion Junction, Ala., for January 12, 1917. I’m not an expert on train registers, and they may have changed over the years as the rules changed. Fr

For what it’s worth, my recollection is that the cars were joined with a solid drawbar and a solid air hose - no glad hands. Also, I do not ever recall seeing “artics” painted black. If anyone has suc

Chris: When SRHA had its annual meeting in Cincinnati in the spring of 1995, one of the activities was a tour of the facilities at Ludlow. We were pretty much given the run of the place and were well

Outstanding info, Dave, this will make a great TIES article. Thanks for analyzing Conductor Snow’s log books - wealth of information there. As a kid raised on Esskay products, I was interested to see

Steve: You’re right that trains 1 & 2’s schedule changed from daily to New Orleans in the August 12, 1970 timetable, to tri-weekly in the November 20, 1970 timetable between Birmingham and New Orleans

Hi, Allen, I’m not aware of any single reference that lists all the Southern Railway turntables together, nor am I aware of anyone who has made the effort to make a compilation of them. I just checked

Great, Rick. Thanks.

In the SRHA Archives, we have photographs of at least two Ts-class Mountains, 1453 and 1454, in black paint with dog houses on the tender decks. These are the only two 4-8-2s I know of that got the bl

Mike Schafer and I are co-editors of SRHA’s quarterly journal, TIES. We are distant cousins. If you have an interest in the fascinating Southern Railway, you should consider joining SRHA. You can do s

1910 - SOU ran three each way daily into/out of St. Louis - trains 7-8, accommodation trains Mt. Vernon, Ill.-St. Louis making all local stops; trains 1-2, overnight to/from Louisville with connection

The Brotherhoods’ National Diesel-Electric Agreement of 1937 established the less-than-45 ton limit on drivers and specifically required firemen on “streamliners” (regardless of the UP’s trademark). S

Power truck at rear was A-1-A, with only two of the three axles powered. My understanding is that it spread the weight on drivers sufficiently to keep that weight under 45 tons. That way, SOU could ge

As far as I can tell, SOU had no coaches in the 4500-series. The few passenger cars numbered 4500s were some heavyweight Pullmans acquired in the Pullman split of 1948. Also, a couple baggage-RPOs and

This photo was taken probably on August 6 or 7 1970 at what was left of Terminal Station, Birmingham, when Pullman-Standard’s 200,000th boxcar, SOU 555055, was on display (right in picture) in the thr

Jim: The red and white “signs” were vinyl decals. Back in 1975 Graham Claytor, Southern’s president, realized that there were 17 signers of the Declaration of Independence from the states that were se

Well, well, well, Mark, How fortunate you shot the rear of the train at Peachtree Station, Atlanta. It prompts me to amend my earlier comments about the train based on your earlier photo of the front

Mark: Interesting info, Mark, The March 31 train with the two E8s probably was a special of some kind. The giveaway is that the first, or regular, section had four E8s, and it had a long train because

That’s a typical school kids special. The kids ate simple meals in the dining car, but those trains tended to run with a lot of dining cars. The Birmingham students may have made their annual trip to

In the Southern Crescent era, the DeKalb County and Fulton County safety patrol trains operated in early-May, and were always special trains. While similar school groups may have been carried on the S

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