Organizing the SRHA Southern Presidents' files is a bit more complex because so many memos and letters include comments or responses written on the original or copy. In pre Xerox days, the original wo

Rick: Good catch! There is no scan of Pg 4, I’ll go back to the paper file and see if I can locate it! Ike

Note attached…as we approach the holidays, be governed accordingly. (SRHA Presidents’ Files Box 531c, File 12) Ike

In 1958, the PRR's financial condition was bad and getting worse. On January 10, 1958 the PRR President sent a letter to the Presidents all of the railroads with through passenger car connections at W

All: Here is a cross posting from the Passenger Car LIst. It is a good example of the kind of material found in the Southern Railway Presidents' Files collection in the SRHA Archives. Ike From the SRH

In addition to all/most of the ICC Valuation sheets from the initial work 1916-1926 or thereabouts, the SRHA archives include a great many of the bi-annual updates into the early 1960s, probably to th

One of the “passenger train” files I found in the President’s Files in the archives this past Sunday (Box 509A, File 7) was only about passenger segregation 1945-1950. The SouthernRailway.io list has

As we sort through, and scan, the passenger train folders in the SR Presidents’ files, there are a number of documents on mixed trains. As the subject would make an interesting TIES article, does anyo

Joel: Another good subject for research! The only thing I can say for sure about “smoking rooms” is that they were only in the “gents” end of the car during this time period. I expect that corresponde

Sunday’s quick trip to the archives produced a Presidents’ file on the Railway Mail Service I've not seen before. The file is only post-war data but appears to show increasing mail traffic, and revenu

Joel: I’m sure the drawing is representative of Southern “combines” of the period but it should not be associated with any specific order or car numbers without more research. When I first started ass

Sorry for the delay responding, this is not a simple answer I have not located a high quality scanned version of a turn of the century Southern coach floor plan. For a stand-in, I’ve attached a reduce

Kev: Thanks..that’s my guess but the Athens, GA Acct 20 example didn’t include a turntable. I think (!) Frank Greene and I scanned all of the summaries but we have to remember, they only cover what ex

Jack: The Val section data for Brunswick would include any turntable info through the years, although I do not know which ICC account that would be shown under (turntables are not shown separately, sh

Jack: No doubt you are correct but I cannot find anything in the archives (that we have scanned) to provide more information about SR Mountains to Jesup. There must be something, so we’ll keep looking

Jack: Check out the article on Jesup that ran in TIES. Note the photos of the engines at Jesup….no 4-8-2s! Would it be logical to run a Ts to Jesup, cut it off and exchange it for a Pacific for the ru

The Southern had to use its Atlantics (4-4-2) then light Pacifics on the Brunswick line south of Macon because of the track. The Atlanta-Jacksonville train that ran on the Coast Line from Jesup exchan

Steve: Ben Roberts and Oscar Kimsey were the "heart and soul" of the Southern Railway Historical Society. Both were prolific photographers and more or less produced "Southern Rails" by themselves. The

The status reports of passenger train discontinuances, rejections and approvals to VP DW Brosnan in the SRHA archives begin in April, 1947 and continued, almost monthly, into the mid fifties. The repo

Dave: Do the switch lists describe if the lime is bagged? I don’t think we’d see off-line cars on the Southern in bulk lime service? Does anyone know….would box cars without doors be accepted in inter