David: I do not expect there is a specific TVRM “plan” for Sou 5 at this moment, its restoration will come first. As it will be operational, as opposed to a “museum piece”, the car will certainly be u

Marvin: Yes! That is the plan… I will put the entire Point Richmond, OC-X…OC-5, NS8 file on line at this week ends archives work session (we’ll also take time to go see NS8). That file contains everyt

Southern Railway official car No 5 (disguised as NS No 8) arrived at Chattanooga this afternoon. It will be set on trucks tomorrow and moved to the TVRM Soule Shops to be restored as Southern Railway

Scott: I have not checked to see if they are correct for clay hopper conversions but they ARE absolutely correct for Southern. I questioned their freight car brown color with Roman lettering. The atta

Dave: Here is another photo of T-413. WHAT are they burning in that tank? The origin of T-413 may be in the ICC records in the archives if it survived past 1926 or so when the valuation study began. I

All: This is a shameless ad for SRHA’s three-book set Southern Railway Freight Car Diagrams. SRHA has sold hundreds of copies over the years but the current printing is almost gone (more are not plann

Yes, note Sou 73648 attached at Linwood 7-96….with no side extensions or hopper bottoms, they certainly did not carry a heavy load of chips. I have photos at Pomona of several cars with the doors miss

Scott: Digging through photos, I found several of the cars in wood chip service (stenciled along the channel below the side sill). The photos were all taken at Linwood yard. Ike

Scott: The clay hoppers were favorites of mine so I took as many photos of them as I could. I’m sure Warren has many more but here is a nice shot of Sou 72597 I took at Greensboro 12-30-83. Aside from

Scott: The “crude earth” cars were modified from 70T Sou 70000 series triple hoppers. When I was cataloging the SRHA freight car drawings they were generally in chrono and numerical order per drawing

The January 23, 1969 Mow renumbering plan shows the following old and new road numbers for the “weed killer flat cars” in service at that time. 991491 weed killer flat car to be renumbered from OSM-1

All of the various monogram drawings, and the specifications for the paint and lettering on the engines that used them are in the archives. Our next work session is January 17th and 18th. If time and

Dave: I’m not sure what your point is but this group is about the Southern Railway….the Southern did not use the term “Herald”, why should we use/propagate it? Ike

I’ve had a similar conversation with the NS Engineering folks and the ACL/SALHS about what resolutions to use to scan microfilm aperture cards. Both groups told me they thought scanning at 300 dpi was

Thanks Ed! As a “naturalized” Floridian, I have to admit the ACL medallion lettering style is the absolute classic! Ed’s drawing, like Southern DL-1010 appears to be a tracing of an EMD original. In t

I'll leave the color question to others but first I'll harp on "herald". The Southern Railway always/only called the round "Southern Serves the South" stencil a "Monogram". Other railroads may have us

Two more items from the SRHA files.....certainly an unusual subject in 1968, a steam loco and Automatic Train Stop..... I sent these to "our" Jim Howe (a member of SRHA's BOD and the Association's Att

Trackage rights for the CG from Albany to Tifton were apparently agreed to by SCL but not done? Ike

Yet another major file(s) in the SRHA archives concern the Seaboard Coast Line merger in the mid 60s. In addition to competition from the ACL and SAL combination, the Southern was interested in improv

Rodney: We look forward to you (everyone on SR@groups.io, actually) making it to one of our archives work sessions. They are a combination of actual work, just looking through the archives and always