Marv: The IC-CofG relationship was very strong. There are virtually no references to the Southern handling package car traffic out of Chicago to anywhere on the SRS, except what came via the IC/Centra

Here is a cover letter and the first two, of sixteen, pages from the August, 1949 Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry “Package Car Service” Bulletin in the SRHA archives. The term “package ca

I have been scanning documents in the archives on the 1949 order for cars for the Crescent. Here are three examples that tell their own story. Although I do not know how many Budd drawings we have, no

Everyone…please follow Allen’s request and communicate with him off line. Ike

Evan: While there were a few Southern paired window 13xx coaches built by PSCCo, far and away most from the “heavyweight” era were single window designs. Here’s an example from an old “Cyc”. Ike

Everyone is probably aware of how “low” PC was in the early 1970s. Freight traffic through its southern gateways at Pot Yard and the N&W through Harrisburg was considered short haul traffic not worth

It has been some time since I looked at scans of the of the oldest Southern passenger car drawings, I revisited a series of “standard” car drawings from 1904 and 05. It took the Southern about ten yea

Before the New Car Program (NCP) system, the Southern issued “Specifications” for new rolling stock. The Southern Freight Car Diagram book (published by SRHA) shows “100-Ton 47’-8” Aluminum Gondola Se

Here is a list of color Silversides photos I took over the years. If there is a “pattern” in them, it is that Silversides were delivered with Red lettering in 1960. Green lettering on (1973?) modified

Mike: I’ve scanned maybe 4,000 hopper, cov hopper and Silversides drawings and memos…..nothing! I expect many of the Silversides stencil color changes occurred when the cars were modified with steel r

Here are two. Only Sou 74505 is properly IDd. I took the photo at Andover, VA 10-2-87. Another photo, Sou 74285, may (!!) have faded green lettering Ike

Because the covered hopper were first purchased for different commodities, I have always assumed that maybe the stencil colors on them were to show what they were supposed to carry. The problem with t

Scott: For years, I have looked at stencil drawings, specifications and memos to find a “clue” to explain the different stencil colors on the Silversides, covered hoppers and the grey 70-ton triple ho

Marv: I need to check to see how large that file is? It took a long time to load which tells me it must be BIG. To help save space for attachments, give it another short while for people to download t

From SRHA Archives Presidents’ File Box 662 File 11670, the consist(s) of Southern Railway train Nos. 1 and 2 as of 11-15-71. I have to search for the slide but I think (!) I have a photo of a SP slee

I realize these book pages have already been distributed by the list BUT….. Aside from the fact SRHA would not want to see pages from books it produced and copyrighted simply copied and distributed we

The SR Presidents' files include correspondence on the Southern's Murphy branch spanning multiple years. The attached letter from TVA to the Southern, dated March 16, 1943 proposes that the railroad t

During the mid 1960s, the Southern made a concerted effort to eliminate as many passenger trains as possible. While many people would assume it was mostly the work of D.W. Brosnan, his “man behind the

Mark: We allow attachments on both the “SouthernRailway” and “ModelingThe Southern” groups. The time will probably come when we get to the limit of allowed storage and some items will have to be remov

We received an interesting question from John Horvath (NYCHS) about a group of Pullman Plan 3979A (8-1-2) sleepers assigned to the Ponce DeLeon. While we continue to look through the photos in the SRH