Alex, what time period? Jack Wyatt

I always assumed that it was a search for a lettering color which would provide contrast on the TV screens in spite of any overcoating's of dust and grime. Sorry to speculate, but after assuming this

I don't have the exact date, but sometime around the time of this memo, Southern helped to finish off No. 35 from Chattanooga to Memphis, by scheduling No. 17 to arrive Chattanooga ten minutes after n

Ike, Have you seen the consist for the Florida Sunbeam departing Miami on December 25, 1940 published in Wayner's Passenger Train Consists of the 1940? The Pullman names could be crossed checked with

I saw them in the early 1990s at the Goodyear Plant in Topeka KS. Jack Wyatt

I believe it made it easier to reach the water spout, though that practice was not common on other roads. In my opinion, it probably helped to keep one's feet dry when the water overflowed the tender

No, they got portholes and other doodad's. See attached photo. Jack Wyatt

Attached is part of USRA report which should help clarify the situation. Jack Wyatt

FH working for USRA came from Wikipedia, so that information is suspect from the start. Southern Railway Company put out an annual report at the end of 1918 even though the government operated the pro

Not sure. Before USRA he was chairman of an advisory board consisting of five railroad executives. I presume it was incorporated into USRA. Jack Wyatt

Coapman also had to resign from the Southern Railway, too, because he was the Federal Manager. Jack Wyatt

He was working for the USRA instead, thus he was not allowed to continue running the Southern Railway. Jack Wyatt

Harry Bundy was in college back in the sixties, I believe, so no. Jack Wyatt

The question was about coal from the Alabama District to Lamberts Point. I have learned never to say never, but surely it was not much if any at all. Jack Wyatt

I should add that up until the early fifties, the home heating market was still active, so individual carloads would have gone to local coal dealers in the region. Also more small foundries were opera

A lot would have been used for steel making around Birmingham, Alabama and other facilities in the region. Mobile AL would have been the main port for coal moving on by water. Lamberts Point would hav

Evan, you're welcome! Here are your Kentucky-Tennessee District (Knoxville Division) pages. Jack Wyatt

I got lucky. The guess of twenty pages (including covers) was good, but date of issue was March 1, 1952. I have been relieved of pages 17-18. I have attached scan of cover and map of Alabama District

I have one somewhere if I can find it. I am thinking late forties, staple bound, about 20 pages. Unfortunately someone took a pair of scissors to some of the sections. Jack Wyatt

Dave, Good answer! I wonder if it was something thick and nasty which they had to heat up to get it to flow. Maybe they were burning some of the stuff itself to accomplish that goal. Another question