Thanks for the help! It looks like it'd be fine to mix in some black and repainted INT cars in a 60's era Middlesboro based mine run I'm considering modeling. Being able to mix in Southern Black, Tran

Hello everyone, I’m looking for information on what happened to the Interstate RR coal fleet after being acquired by Southern. I know many were placed into captive “yellow ball” service for the Westmo

This was posted by Ron Stafford in the Appalachian Rails and Mining Facebook group. It is from March 1963. Scott, noticed your photos show some of the Middlesboro District mines. It caught my attentio

Hello everyone, Micro-Trains just released an N Scale Southern single window coach with road number 4500. I was wondering how common single window coaches were on the Southern, and does anyone have an

Thanks for the builders photos Justin. Didn’t know they had red trucks as well. Southern sure loved to have lettering all over their coal cars! I’ve never seen another railroad with as much data and w

Thanks everyone! I’m assuming these are 100 ton PS-3’s, but perhaps built to Southern specs? L&N had plenty of PS-3’s but theirs had a different slope angle and more panels/ribs. -Evan Miller

Hello everyone, I was looking though the photos on the Southern Railfan photo archives and these hoppers I've linked below caught my attention. Would anyone happen to have any information regarding th

Thanks for the great answer Bob! -Evan Miller

Hello everyone, I'm looking for information regarding Southern's switch in the late 70's from using Metallic to Delux Gold on locomotives. Was there an exact date for the switch? I've noticed some new

Thanks George, pretty funny seeing how Southern picked out the new scheme! I guess it would have been a common sight to see heavyweight trains with both the old Roman lettering and new block lettering

Hello all. When did Southern begin to use this simplified lettering on passenger cars? http://southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/passenger/575.jpg

In Diesels of the Southern Railway 1939-1982, there is a photo on page 53 of NW2 2280 and TR2B 2454 working the Jefferson City Zinc mine on August 14, 1958. On page 52 it shows the two engines on a lo

A big thank you to you Mr. Wyatt! I've been looking for this kind of information for a long time! This confirms a lot of things I've been looking into. I never knew about that loadout a Kelos, such a

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great find! Does it have anything regarding the Middlesboro, KY area? Although it was L&N territory, Southern had trackage rights there. According to a L&N timetable, in 1

Did Southern ever publish coal mine directories? I’ve seen several published by the Virginian Railway. They list the various coal loadouts that the railroad served along with the monthly amount of car

Thanks for the photos! Hard to argue against them. I had no idea that these were actually a separate metal piece! I always thought that they were just painted on. Looking at the photo on the 6144, it

Hello everyone, after looking at many color photos of Southern's cab units during the 50's, I have a question. Was the lettering on the herald green or black? Most models I've seen have green letterin