Bob, I enjoyed it too, learning about many obscure wrecks/accidents. I do recommend the book, but just double check anything which seems questionable. All wrecks are nasty, but New Market ranks right

Thanks Bob, It's an interesting book, but some pictures in her article on the New Market wreck are questionable (e.g. wrecked freight cars in the wreck of two passenger trains). Jack Wyatt

What I am seeing is Sn 3-58. Looks like a reweigh date. Would Sn be Spencer? Jack Wyatt

I replied a little too quickly. I found a note that the specifications for nos. 1207-1212 were dated 1/15/1952. Maybe that will help your search. Jack

Fenton, I wish I could help. I would like to know that one myself. Jack Wyatt

Tim, I recall us talking about it years ago. If I remember, you had a lot of information on dispositions and my strength was the early Southern Railway passenger cars. I still would like to do somethi

Tim, thanks for finding the answer. Years ago when I was trying to create an all time roster of Southern Railway passenger cars, a similar renumbering incident, number 1367 in your list, bedeviled me.

Stephen, in the early 1960s Southern still had a few coaches with throw-over seats. I seem to remember catching one of them in a train between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Talk about a time warp! Jack Wya

Chris, Bethlehem Steel did build 25 coaches for Southern Railway System in 1924. They were numbered 1614-1633 and CNO&TP 3776-3780. The coaches generally got renumbered when they were rebuilt with rec

That is a good piece of information. I wonder if the 3659 has the original number stamped somewhere on the car? Jack

I think it is a case of a car being retired, but not scrapped, and then brought back with a new car number in the excursion fleet. My March 1965 Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment shows no

Seems like I have seen other pictures from that era with dry ice cars at Inman. I wonder if the nearby packing plant used dry ice? Jack Wyatt

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