Almost certainly tank cars. General American Tank Car Journeys published by General American Tank Car Corporation in 1931 has a whole page (P. 99) devoted to 'whale oil'. From that page: "whole ship l

A ship named Pythia is in this list: Donaldson Line (theshipslist.com) It was sold to Norway in 1911 and converted to a whale factory ship. Jack Wyatt

We weren't in the Great War yet, but we were coming out of a recession which lasted from January 1913 until December 1914. Jack Wyatt

Close enough! Jack

Steve, Atlanta Terminal Station was on Spring Street, just up from then Southern offices in Atlanta. Attached is a map from the 1934 study. Hope this helps. Jack Wyatt On Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 11:

Allen, the 1934 Atlanta Terminal Coordination Study shows a 100' turntable at Inman Yard. I believe that the Southern's coach yard at North Avenue also had a turntable, but I haven't found the length

Thanks Matt, I had heard the UPS story and that took place in 1916. Dublin said that Pullman started developing its green in 1900. Maybe it took ten years to evolve. Brown sounds good to me. Now if I

I assumed that the Southern Railway System's first passenger car color was similar to Pullman Green. Indeed, in a contract dated May 3, 1895 with Pullman Palace Car Company for new passenger cars, the

Ike, I believe that the Buhoup vestibule was a wide vestibule design. The vestibule in your drawing of the Southern Railway coach is a Pullman narrow. See attached. Pullman narrow vestibules were spec

When the Vestibule Limited was wrecked at Bluff City, Tennessee in October 1894, two coaches were destroyed. Southern Railway ordered two coaches from Pullman on an expedited basis using spec's from P

Joel, Thank you for sharing that information. Interesting project! The annual report for fiscal year 1900 ending June 30, 1900 shows 9 passenger cars being retired that year which should include the t

Ike, the combined baggage - coach cars continued into the 600 series. As I already posted, the new first class coaches started at 1200. Southern did have an order from Pullman in early 1901 which back

Joel, Look at this site for a source of early Southern Rwy. passenger car diagrams: http://southern.railfan.net/ Select "Southern Documents", next "Passenger and Business Car Diagrams", and finally "P

Joel, The original renumbering from the predecessor roads had combination passenger and baggage cars in the 500-560 series. Second class passenger coaches (some of which did not last much longer) were

Thanks Barry, that was my recall too, but I could not find it. Southern Rails was not the easiest publication to find something in. Maybe I should try again (in the morning after my <pot of> coffee).

The 99 ships built at Brunswick during WWII probably accounted for some tonnage. Naval Air Station Glynco was a big blimp base, so I guess that quite a bit of helium was used there, I am curious what

Ike, we are talking about Ts class engines painted black used for a limited time on a pair of freight trains between Macon and Jesup which ran at night. Interestingly, the black paint on former passen

Ike, Macon -Brunswick got upgraded circa WWII. The May 12, 1946 Atlanta Division ETT shows 314,800 lbs. total weight 4-8-2 Mountain engines being allowed. Jack Wyatt

OK, found it. Southern Rails, issue No. 28, Spring,1990, page 4. Article was actually by Shelby F. Lowe and is titled "Black Beauties. Engines were nos. 1453, 1454, and 1466, all pictured. Intended us

Bill, Oscar Kimsey wrote about them in one of the issues of SRHS's Southern Rails. I think it was four or five Ts class engines in total. I don't remember whether a Ts-1 got the black treatment. If I