Warren, that pretty well agrees with what I've heard and read. Siskin bought the TAG basically to give the Southern the single-finger salute. And apparently did so successfully. Bob Hanson Loganville,

From what I've read and heard, the TAG's relationship with the Southern was not all beer and skittles, either. The TAG made a living by short-hauling the Southern. It paralleled the AGS for its (TAG's

Macon Tolleson was one of Brosnan victims. I don't recall if he quit or was fired, but he is one of the many capable men lost to the Southern due to Brosnan's whims. The gory details are in the two-vo

That consist you describe, Bill, sounds almost like a "make-up" train assembled in a hurry after it was learned that the connecting train would be very, very late. Bob Hanson

In the 1960's and 1970's the coaches generally ran ahead of the diner and the sleepers were placed behind it on almost all passenger trains. There were exceptions, but that was the general practice. F

Marv, If you've read Fred Frailey's book, Twilight of the Great Trains, you know that some of the trains Brosnan was in such a sweat to get rid of were actually profitable. Some maybe only marginally

Bill, and all - I suspect that, like Charles A. Wickersham of the West Point Route, Harrison was ideologically at odds with the idea of Federal control. Wickersham signed on as Federal Manager but qui

Another would be an Industrial Directory, of you can find one. It would list the businesses in each town, what they shipped/received, and, if the town was served by more than one railroad, the road on

While I never rode the train, I was told by those who did that the X-Plorer did not cover itself with glory on any of the few trips on which it was used. Most unreliable. Bob Hanson Loganville, GA

Good point, Bill. The SAL Pullmans of the period were two-tone gray. Bob Hanson

Not necessarily. The Pullman Company's Descriptive List of Cars for March of 1961 shows 28 of these cars in Pullman ownership and in the Pullman pool. Also, any cars that are not needed can be release

I've seen color slides that showed black lettering on the medallion. I may have one or two but I'd have to dig them up. Bob Hanson

And EMD called it a "Medallion." Bob Hanson

There's a lot of that "infinite wisdom" going around. A scanned image is not the same as an original document, and frequently they'll scan a contract or document without scanning the supporting docume

I think that such rights were rendered redundant by the purchase of the Georgia Northern. The Southern upgraded a portion of the road so that they could run trains from Albany over to Sparks, GA (just

To this day I wonder how many ICC commissioners the ACL and SAL paid off to get that kind of ruling. It blows my mind that they were able to get the merger approved without giving up anything in the w

Brosnan was both a genius and a lunatic at the same time. He was a genius because of his many ideas and inventions that enabled the Southern - and the railroad industry in general - to mechanize and c

Apparently I missed something - are they going to move the statue? I believe that the statue is sitting right where it should sit - in front of the NS building in Atlanta and if it should be moved at

Jack, you may be right. All I had to go on was the biography, apparently given to dignitaries, issued for the dedication of the memorial. I've done nothing to verify the information, so you'll get no

According to a biography in my collection that was issued at the dedication of the Spencer Memorial in 1910, Samuel Spencer also served at Vicksburg and later under General Nathan Bedford Forrest. He