Certainly an interesting series of comments! All are certainly logical and probably contributed to the decision to get rid of section houses. Could the fact that most of the company house designs; sec

Two days of work in the SRHA archives has turned up yet another category of Southern Railway data...and a question. After WWII, there were a number of "programs" that included the retirement of variou

To remind everyone, the August archives work session is Friday and Saturday August 16 and 17. Several of us will be there starting Thursday. Ike

I’ve attached a photo of Sou 3252 “Emory River” taken Atlanta, GA 4-5-72 O.W. Kimsey, Jr. photo. Bill Schafer may be able to tell us which train the car is operarting in? Note the unpainted roof.. I’v

Dan: The L&N cabs were acquired by the L&NHS, I’ll ask what their plans are for them. We were told the ACL/SALHS was not interested but SRHA does not have those items, (The MD&S low side gon is partic

Glen: We intend to have the Southern bay window cab available in the next month or so. To keep the price down SRHA will provide only the resin castings (possibly not including the interior as it is ve

I apologize for continuously asking for donations to preserve Southern Railway equipment nowadays but the two gons to TVRM are a perfect example. Without the willingness of people to donate the cash t

Re: Jim’s model of the Southern 40’ lo side gons…. May I add that I believe, and have told many people, that it is one of the best, most accurate HO models ever made! It is just one of the reasons SRH

Ed: The people donating the purchase cost of both cars are rather outspoken that we will see “SOUTHERN” on both cars’ letterboards. The paint on NS OC 8 is in good condition so we might see the repain

I have mentioned TVRM has purchased ex Southern Budd dining car #3307 from Amtrak. It will soon be moving from Beech Grove to TVRM for service. From the "when it rains it pours" category, TVRM is also

We had another productive work session at the SRHA archives this past Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Although there is a lot of work to be done, we are making visible progress. Join us in August.... M

First: AC reminder, the usual third weekend of the month SRHA Archives work session is Friday and Saturday. (Several of us will be there in Thursday if anyone wold like to joiun us then.) Yesterday an

Bill: I checked a number of ETTs thinking there may have been some kind of code showing MPs where they located…no luck there. Might the issue be that because a speeder could be moved off the track man

I notice no one has responded to this post yet. Although I cannot locate my copies of the Southern Railway standards books, if someone can look there, they may (!!) include plans for a track speeder s

They are not perfect but the enclosed Google Drive link will allow everyone to download a copy of the current draft of the Southern Railway Presidents' Files Finding Aids. We need to begin an archives

Gordon: For "The things I don’t know”, might you contact the group owners or moderators for answers? The SouthernRailway, ModelingTheSouthern, and SRHA.io groups are all affiliated with the Southern R

Let me clarify a bit about Pullman "club cars" carrying FDR's auto...On Jun 29, 2019, at 3:18 PM, Charles Powell wrote: George, I was interested in what you said about your father being on FDR's secur

Charlie: The archives project to scan every available Southern System ETT and PTT is almost complete. I’ll ask if a 40s version of either showing Warm Springs has been scanned and see if we can post a

Dave: (A quick comment about the N&WHS and SRHA: Both groups have a commitment to pass “home road” material back and forth no questions asked. No swaps or “prisoner exchanges” are needed. That is one

The project to scan all of the Southern contracts in the SRHA archives is moving along. There are still a few to be located and scanned but it will not be long before the effort become part of SRHA's