I agree with Dave, I am not aware of any Southern single sheathed USRA box cars. Although USRA allocated some number of them to the Southern, that information might be found on a USRA published list b

Bob: Although not many, there are records, photos and drawings of Southern stock pens in the archives, including the Harrisonburg Branch. Ike

Andy: It’s another of the excellent “groups.io” forums….PassengerCarList@groups.io. Ike

All: This just posted on the PCL… Ike Re: Southern Ry modernized coaches From: Nancy Boots Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:15:52 PDT Time to add in my nickel (I expect change for my 2 cents) on the informat

At one time, the Southern owned and moved a considerable number of stock cars. In addition to cattle, several hundred cars of horses and mules were sent to Pinners Point, VA for export to Spain immedi

John: There is quite a bit of information in the SRHA archives on TIPS. It is usually filed (digitally) with the Yard name rather than as a comprehensive TIPS file. In addition to what we know about n

One of the possible projects for upcoming work sessions will be to go through boxes of “miscellaneous” document and either move them to individual car files, or, at least to scan them and put the digi

Memos referring to car 3659 are in the “Excursion Services” files dated 5-31-68, 8-1-70 and 3-9-79, so we know it was in use then. Ike

Chris: What is the car number, your organization and where is it? Ike

For anyone interested in Southern Railway freight and passenger car maintenance and modifications 1971-1984, the nine pages now on Google Drive are the “key” to helping get the SRHA archives Mechanica

I hope we can schedule an archives work session (open to vaccinated people) for the third weekend in June (Fri-Sat, 6-17/18) . We’ll post information here and on the SRHA.net home page. I expect we wi

Matt: The original and rebuild stencil schemes are in the original version of the 40’ box car book. (I can send larger versions and individual stencil drawings (full size) if needed. Why don’t you gat

Southern 46831 was rebuilt and renumbered from Sou 14412 5-2-68. The re-write of the SRHA Southern Railway 40’ box car book will include material on all of the Southern and CofG rebuild programs. If f

Here is a smaller, cleaner version of the Sou 42000-42099 50’ box car assignment list. As part of a very large draft, it has duplicates and errors to be corrected. (Some “errors” are directly from the

This discussion reminds the SRHA Directors that we need to revisit and decide if there is enough interest in the “plan packs” we have offered in the past to devote resources to producing and making mo

Jim: I’ll locate and get the FGE stencil drawing for these cars to you. Ike PS For the HO modelers among us, I spoke to Moloco about doing them. He told me (Nick would know, his research is excellent)

Clark: You didn't mention a year for the "Carolina Special" consist, here is a document from 11-15-67 showing the standard consist of Train 27 not long before it was discontinued. The Pullman came off

I know I have seen lists of destinations for kaolin clay that were routed via the Southern (they virtually all originated on the Central of Georgia) but, of course, I cannot find them off hand. Here i

From the Southern Railway Historical Association Archives, Box 334A: Although unremarked, and for a much shorter period than WWII, railroad troop movements for WWI were still significant. Here is page

The SRHA archives include many files on the shortage/purchase/rebuilding of 40’ box cars 1963-65. Many were needed as the Southern’s contribution to various on-line and off-line car pools and for Kaol