While you can still find Southern-painted waffle boxcars on the rails (saw one yesterday), almost every last one has lost its original doors. Does anyone recall when that started? Building cars to use

So I was looking through my Southern general arrangement drawings, a pile that stops in the late '60s, and noticed that the drawings for both the Pullman Big Reds and Greenville Little Big Reds both s

Speaking of coal cars, of which I had zero interaction with during my time at the Southern, and rarely photographed afterwards, there is the question of the "Big Reds". Does the term refer to all the

Lee, First thing, if you're looking for O-scale detail parts, the first place I'd call would be Des Plaines Hobbies. Same for S-scale parts. The horn is a Nathan M-3. The bell is a standard "fabricate

> Just to confirm this is from Oct 1984? Yes. Scott Chatfield

I guess my phone doesn't want to upload directly to this list's file section on groups.io, so I'll just attach the images to this email. Scott Chatfield

In the Archives we have a map printed by the Southern of active coal loadouts in October 1984. Of course it includes the Southern and Interstate lines in southwest Virginia. I took quick pics of the m

What were the different colors used to letter the Silversides? (The aluminum coal gons.) I gather the colors had meanings, either for which power company they hauled coal for or which subsidiary they

Thanks for the replies about the Hogshead cars. Very educational. Completely outside of my work at the Southern in intermodal. If memory serves we did have some tire shipments by piggyback into the At

A few questions about the ever popular hogshead cars. 1) Where they ever in interchange service? Especially in their original role of hauling tobacco "hogsheads". 2) I think most of them spent their l

Thanks Bill and Bob. I just couldn't see that short car being used in a full-length passenger train with E units and 85' cars. A derailment waiting to happen. Scott Chatfield

Is this thing for? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Rail-Slide-SOU-Southern-Railway-403-no-location-4-1964-ex-A-EC/303559401497 Scott Chatfield

A 1977 ETT has a chart for the restrictions but no pictures of the placcards. The 1978 version has pictures of the various diamond placcards with the words spelled out. Both state they were no restric

Paul Schmidt asked: > Anyone have access to a Southern Special System Instructions for the late 1970s (or equivalent document for the era) pertaining to the location of a hazmat car within a train? In

Thanks Darrell. Next time I'm at the archives I'll see if we have the NCP folders for these cars. Scott Chatfield

Pullman-Standard, if memory serves. Not ex-CG. Scott Chatfield "Evan Miller via groups.io" <nsrailfan82@...> wrote: Hello everyone, I was looking though the photos on the Southern Rail

The Southern Railway System leased the Norfolk & Western Railway at the end of 1990, and then the Southern's formal name was changed to Norfolk Southern Railway. This is the end date of the Southern R

I gather some Alabama coal even made it as far west as the Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill near Pueblo, Colorado. I gather this didn't happen until the '60s, and perhaps was done only because mines in

I find it interesting that this ca1950s map shows six mines served but the 1984 map I've seen shows twelve on less track. I wonder if the mergers gave the Southern access to more mines on L&N track or

Ike wondered: > PS I have not checked but might the new Tangent hoppers be a starting point for a model of these? Tangent's 3-bay hopper is a Pullman 15-panel PS-3, 2700cf if memory serves. L&N owned