Hi This time my request is re the build did occur in Decatur of the Ingalls 4-S. Some construction I believe was carried out in two locations, Decatur AL and Pascagoula MS. At the Ingalls facilities i

Hi Asked a similar question a year or two back, but just to refresh --- Please view the attached doc and the article in the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper re the Ingalls 4-S demonstration to several r

Friday's trip to the SRHA archives located several interesting "new" (circa 1976) topics worth scanning, two files include trackage rights projects that were never finalized. The attached two-page let

Greetings, Has anyone ever seen any color/painting documentation or drawings for the “Memphis” or “Louisville” tugs that worked Pinners Point ? Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Barry

While you can still find Southern-painted waffle boxcars on the rails (saw one yesterday), almost every last one has lost its original doors. Does anyone recall when that started? Building cars to use

Bruce: Your question is a good one! I'll post it as new topic while I figure out how to “unlock” a topic. My guess, only that, is a switch crew would uncouple, spot and recouple cars on the scale as w

Ike: You’re right that SOU required new equipment from offline sources to be billed to a station deep inside the Southern system so that SOU could participate in the rate. Lawyers, Va., near Lynchburg

Ok guys, I understand the check codes and reporting marks on the side of a locomotive cab. What if a locomotive does now have a reporting mark for ownership. Is it just assumed it belongs to SOU? I as

Has anyone in the group had any experience with "older" Broadway Limited steam locomotives? I acquired one (decorated as a SOU 2-8-2 #6326) recently at an estate sale. I operate only DC, but they're s

Hello---Anyone here know the issue date of the last Southern Crescent timetable? I believe it was October 1978. Comments? Thank you.

So I was looking through my Southern general arrangement drawings, a pile that stops in the late '60s, and noticed that the drawings for both the Pullman Big Reds and Greenville Little Big Reds both s

Would anyone happen to have a photo to share of a page from a Southern train register book? Was there any difference in the type of train register books used where an operator was on duty compared to

Hello all, I am looking for Everett Young or Tom Smart if anyone knows how to reach them. They are mentioned in the Morning sun book, Southern Railway in color VOL.4. pages 6-16 of the book. They had

Speaking of coal cars, of which I had zero interaction with during my time at the Southern, and rarely photographed afterwards, there is the question of the "Big Reds". Does the term refer to all the

Hello everyone, I’m looking for information on what happened to the Interstate RR coal fleet after being acquired by Southern. I know many were placed into captive “yellow ball” service for the Westmo

I am needing to sell two Ho scale Southern diesels at a very reasonable price. A Rapido B36-7 for 150.00 and an Athearn genesis GP39X for 100.00. I can be contacted through the group or e-mail: rkseal

There are 70 indexes for the 17,000+ files in Southern Railway Presidents’ Files collection in the SRHA Archives. Here is the current version of one of those 70 for the period from 1871 to 1895, just

There are still diesel order specifications in the SRHA archives that need to be scanned but here are three pages from one version for Southern RS 2101-2125. Orders from the loco builders began with t

Happy New Year to all! I'm searching for three Southern Ry. documents: a train register card, a typical waybill and a mine block waybill. Also, I'm on the hunt for any engineering prints or informatio

I have a Weaver RS3 dummy in O scale, going to make it into ET&WNC 209 or 210... Anyone know what type of horn the SRR had on these? I'm looking for detail parts that are correct, also need to know if