The pictures went to Charlie Poling and Chris Williams. Their company, East Tn Railcar owns the car. It is currently in storage awaiting restoration. It’s safe and in a good home.

Ed That photo was taken in Oak Ridge at SARM. When we received the car it didn’t look that good. With a lot of work by our volunteer staff, the car was restored to match the Fort Oglethorpe, also at S

Ed I’m not saying I know it all, but since I’ve been working on helping get it restored for a while, I’m at least pretty familiar with it. And it’s twin the Fort Oglethorpe. Somewhere (there’s a big w

Ed You wouldn’t happen to have a picture of the car post wreck but prior to going to Southern? I don’t, but would love to see it. I question that Budd applied the smooth roof, primarily because they w

Ultimately that probably led to the smooth roof. After Budd repaired the wreck damage it retained the fluted roof for a while. At some point Southern got tired of the leaks and installed a smooth roof

Curt Budds were built with fluted roofs. Being of all stainless construction, the cars were-and in many cases still are-practically indestructible. Unfortunately they leak. Sometimes a little silicon

Bill As a matter of fact SRHA does have records of some movements of the Enoree River. The car shows being inspected on 12/11/56 and 12/12/56 in Charlotte. The first day it was in The Southerner and t

All SRHA now has an Instagram account! It is @SouthernRHA . If you’re already an Instagram member, please sign up for some pictures from our convention weekend. If you’re not an Instagram user, you sh

Ike I noticed that too. Suspect they took whatever was easily reusable and left the rest. When was the derailment? Kevin