To jump-start conversations on the SouthernRailway@groups.io list, we will post a link to a number of Southern Railway "F-Cards" on Sunday. F-Cards are the drawings lists for each freight car specific

As the scans of the F-Cards are simply too large to upload, a PDF of the Southern Railway Freight Cars Drawing spreadsheet is available on Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fJUeuBMofeOAmZ2

Here are links to two files that provide an example of a Southern Railway freight car Specification (F-17), an F-Card drawing list (F-5) and the General Arrangement drawing (SF-1011) of the steel fram

As president of the SRHA I'd like to welcome everyone to this new group. I'd also like to invite those interested to participate in our archive work at the TVRM.

I have uploaded a non-rolling stock document example from the SRHA archives that people may not be familiar with. From 1916 to 1926, after the ICC Act was passed, every railroad had to conduct "valuat

Ike; Thank you for making us aware of the materials available in the SRHA archives. I think that this is a valuable resource that not enough people use. I realize that the archives are sort of in flux

The ICC Valuation Process has an instruction manual. It is not light reading but it does explain the process to be followed and, most important to us, the various accounts to be used for different cat

Hi In 1946 Southern evaluated and tested the Ingalls 4-S diesel loco. The loco finally purchased by GM&O. I expect there would have been evaluation reports and recommendations done by Southern. George

Thanks for the invitation to membership. May I suggest a different photo for the home page? Seeing a herd of elephants, at first I thought I might have been fooled into joining a Republican party inte

A&Y locomotive roster pages expanded and updated Dear list, I've been organizing and scanning my prints as well as my collected electronic images of A&Y locomotives for several months. In addition, I'

A friend asked me today if the Southern's roof hatch boxcars (AAR class LC) were used for anything other than kaolin. When I worked there they were mostly used for kaolin shipments to Mexico, and I th

Before posting some examples of rolling stock data from the ICC forms, here are the "index" maps showing the Valuation Sections for the Southern Railway. Note that other parts of the "Southern Railway

TIES Magazine is the quarterly journal of the Southern Railway Historical Association. It is nominally 32 pages, with prototype articles, mention of notable restorations of Southern Railway equipment

All: This is a repost since I think the original was deleted. —Bill SRHA's full-color calendar for 2019 is now available. It consists of 14 images, a Southern Railway map, and extended captions for ea

Good to see it all coming together, George. I’ll be at the museum the weekend of November 9-11 and hope to take a peek if you or someone with access is around. ~ Marv Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 1

Every trackage rights or joint trackage arrangement, Union Station agreement, crossing or interchange between railroads was documented by a contract or agreement negotiated and signed by the parties.

We received an interesting question on the SRHA Facebook page: does anyone know what happened to SOU 390300, an Ortner rapid-discharge hopper? It was painted in a one-of-a-kind paint scheme for a litt

There are simply too many pages in the ICC rolling stock accounts to put on line so I have copied a sample of what is in the SRHA archives. The Google Drive link is: https://drive.google.com/drive/fol

The SRHA Archives Work Session schedule has been set through 2019, beginning with Oct 19-20 (Fri-Sat) this month. These dates, along with any changes, will also be posted here and on our website: SRHA

Yesterday at the SRHA archives, I scanned a file that included a letter from Mr. W.E. Dillard, President of the Central of Georgia Railroad to Mr. D.W. Brosnan, President of the Southern dated August