Allen, ' Theses cars in the 1950's would've been in black with white RR Roman lettering. I.ve attached a 1950's era SOU flat car as an example, along with a later era photo of SOU 50000. Bob Graham --

That photo of SOU Ps4 1380 was not made in a scrap yard or in process of scrapping. It was made sitting on the lead now used by NCTM at Spencer NC. It is right in front of the still-extant paint shop

Pretty easy, David. The Warren Calloway photo appears to be the earliest. The Tom Sink and G.M. McDonald photos were both made the same day. Those 2 gents used to be close friends and traveled frequen

That is an HTC truck with the casting holes blanked, somehow or for some unknown reason. It looks like possibly they were filled in, or even photoshopped out to me, but that is only speculation. The p

Correct on snowplows; SOU SD40-2 3244 was the first SD40-2 with plows, and they continued up to 3328, the highest numbered SD40-2. Bob Graham -----------------------------------------From: "David Frie

Mr. Courtney: Mr. Wall's response is the correct one regarding the Duke Power Buck Steam station you were asking about. There was, however, a Duke Power steam station located in the Asheville NC area

Nice work, Fenton. Just to add to your collection, here is a photo I made of the very similar ACL class O-17 ventilated boxcar 18440 in service at the Wilmington NC freight station (now the Wilmington

These 200 SOU aluminum covered hopper cars were delivered with the same red lettering as the Big John covered hoppers. I clearly recall seeing one in Greensboro in 1962, but was shooting B&W only. The

I wasn't paying close attention to these messages until I rea your reply to Warren; I was thinking you were doing a CofG RS3. But, for ET&WNC, I can offer a couple of 209 I have scanned. I also have 2

Mr. Collins: Answers to your queries below in UPPER CASE as I know them. Bob Graham -----------------------------------------From: "Al Collins" To: "main@SouthernRailway.groups.io" Cc: Sent: Monday Au

The lettering on SOU 1116 sure looks black to me. FWIW, I saw and photographed more of the 1960's era all-aluminum cars (4000 series cement covered hoppers, 6200 series 3 bay covered hoppers and Big J

It was SOU's USA Declaration of Independence celebration. The SOU applied a decal for each Southern colony's signers of the Declaration of Independence. SOU had 17 E8A at that time, so worked out grea

shallow v-shaped slope. -----------------------------------------From: "Jason Greene" To: main@southernrailway.groups.io Cc: Sent: Thursday April 30 2020 5:35:41PM Subject: Re: [SouthernRailway] South

Except for my old friend Fenton Wells. I missed reading some of my email inbox. Sorry for the dislocation. Bob Graham -----------------------------------------From: "Robert Graham" To: "main@SouthernR

The car coupled directly behind the faded SOU PS-1 40ft XM is one of the SOU Spencer Shops rebuilt pulpwood racks, empty. Behind it on an adjacent track is a gondola. I've attached a photo I made Jan

You're welcome. If I can't help with a specific answer, there are MANY others on list who will also chime in when/where they can. Bob Graham -----------------------------------------From: "Evan Miller

The change from using Sotchcal metallic gold lettering on new SOU locomotives began with SOU SD40-2 3313, the first unit delivered of the final order of SOU SD40-2 3313-3328 built in May and June 1979

My oldest Sou Ry form 1014 is from 1966 (I think, undated, but newest power listed are the 1965 SD35's and the 2800 & 2900 series E6A's are still listed) and a May 6 1970 SOU form 1014 both list SOU F

SOU B36-7 3815, 3816 were equipped with Locotrol and had the 3 antennas on the roof. The Locotrol equipment was deactivated in 3815-3816 circa 1984. The 1985 NS form 1014 shows these 2 equipped only w

That Ortner rapid discharge hopper was a one-of-a-kind commemorative paint livery car, similar to the Pullman-Standard 200,000th car SOU boxcar 550555 that ran around for quite a while in its blue/gre