Crosstie Models’ owner, Josh Clark, and I have reached an agreement for Smoky Mountain Model Works, Inc. to resume production of the Southern/NS/N&W GS50/G82 large wood chip hopper kit in HO. This mod

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

There are multiple files in SRHA archives box 612 labeled “Operating Conditions 1966”. They are in the Presidents’ files as virtually every detail of the operation of the Southern Railway was communic

I've got two questions pertaining to modeling Southern passenger cars. 1) When did Southern start applying horizontal gold stripe to the bottoms of Pullman green passenger cars and 2) when did Souther

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’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

Medallion, Monogram, Herald, Logo, Trade Mark, just the more common names used by different companies to portray their name. All have the same meaning (to some extent) in my mind. It seems to be a cho

Hello everyone, after looking at many color photos of Southern's cab units during the 50's, I have a question. Was the lettering on the herald green or black? Most models I've seen have green letterin

reweigh abbreviations for locations on the Southern I would like to update/confirm the reweigh station abbreviations for the Southern I've seen documented by Richard Hendrickson based on photos in the

Black lettering.

With the current issue of Ties, and Michael Turner’s excellent article as a prod, we drove over to Strawberry Plains, TN and found an easy vantage point to photograph the bridge over the Holston River

A couple weeks ago, I announced the re-issuing of Crosstie Models’ large wood chip hopper kit suitable for Southern and NS (with NW reporting marks). The cutoff date is approaching to place your pre-o

From personal observation, I don't think so, but the same "drop bottom ~ ratchet and pawl" arrangement was used on converted forty-foot boxcars (roof removed and sides extended about two feet) in the

Ike, I’ve attached a photo I took in May of 1996. I just don’t remember where I took it. I was living in Charlotte at the time and somewhat likely that’s where I was. Anyway, it shows the ‘wood chip l

Hello I model Southern outdoors in 1/29 scale and indoors in HO, in Oban, Scotland. I need more information, photos and possibly diagrams of the consist of these trains. I checked Ralph Ward’s Souther

Quick reminder that the January 23rd cutoff date to pre-order a limited rerun of Southern and NS wood chip hopper resin kits is just 2 days away. This is the last day to place a reservation and guaran

Please contact me off-list re: the SOU/NS wood chip hopper kits project. Your email addresses don’t seem to be working. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/ -- Jim King http://smokymountainmod

Mike … pls call me at 828-777-5619 re: chip hopper kits. Your Hotmail email doesn’t seem to be working after multiple attempts. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/ -- Jim King http://smokymou

It looks like the Piedmont Limited carried heavyweight 6 sec. 6 dbr. sleepers in the mid to late 1950's. I believe that this floor plan was named in the Poplar series. Does anyone know the names of so

The Southern Railway Presidents' files in the SRHA archives include many pieces of correspondence, PUC filings, responses and ICC Dockets on discontinuing passenger trains While everyone is probably f