Sorry I forgot to add the photos

Evan: I assume you could see the drawing so I won’t re-send…. In the late 1940s and 50s, all of the passenger car builders were very active in marketing their designs to the Southern. Sometimes we see

This past SRHA archives work session at TVRM was very productive. The new scanner is in service and producing excellent scans. (One Pullman letter board drawing was 26 ft long!) As is typical, we alwa

This is a Westerfield O 15. It is the modern kit but I had to use the '40's decals as my railroad time ends in 1953. It has been built pretty much as the directions outlined and HyTech air hoses and T

Dan: Here is a reduced size SF-21598 showing the bracing that sat inside the box car wood chip conversions. You’ll understand my reference to looking like a child’s swing set. (I’ll look to see if Sou

I am curious how the through passenger train services accessed Birmingham Terminal Station. For instance, for the SLSF - Southern services, I would think that Frisco arrived and departed the north end

Would any SRHA members be interested in helping to catalog SRHA’s drawings by entering the pages on the different card lists into a spreadsheet? When that is done, we will link the pages from the Card

I have some aerial photos showing the grading for Norris Yard at Irondale AL east of Birmingham. I am curious what the timeframe for the construction of Norris Yard was. Appreciate it! Jack Wyatt

Does anyone know when the Southern's Atlanta-Birmingham line converted to CTC?

For anyone interested in Express and mail services on Southern passenger trains, this memo from Harry DeButts to Ernest Norris may be interesting. I have mentioned how reduction in passenger schedules

Attached is one of the very few linens in the SRHA collection that does not have a title block or date. It is obviously a box car but the odd strapping on the sides of the car suggests it is a wood si

The new SRHA scanner is in service at the archives. As expected, it does a superb job on our large drawings (linens and blueprints). I’ve uploaded the full size, full resolution scan for drawing SF-10

Not really a “trivial” thing…. If you have downloaded the Southern wood under frame box car drawing, notice the ends of the wood pieces. The wood grains drawn are not random, they are different for ev

I've been trying to figure out locomotive classes and traffic were common on the Southern's Atlanta-Birmingham line in the late 40s and 50s. I don't have a copy of Richard Prince's book, so I'm having

I have mentioned how the Southern was not averse to letting car and loco builders “have it” when they were unhappy about something. Here is an example from the SRHA archives. If we can presume (hope)

When the Southern first dieselized areas and yards, the “formula” was pretty simple. Locations that had been assigned 0-8-0s were assigned 1,000HP switchers, mostly NW-2s, 0-6-0 locations were assigne

The stuff about Southern switch engines has me thinking… Are there any Southern ALCo or EMD switch engines preserved at one of the museums? TVRM just did a lot of work* obtaining, and moving, a “Baby

The most recent post on the locomotives of the Atlanta-Birmingham line caught my attention. I was not aware of the Ms-7 class of engones acquired from Erie RR during WWII, some with Vanderbilt tenders

The restoration of Southern OC-21 at TVRM is moving along nicely. The attached photo shows the car in the shop a week or so ago. All of the windows are out so the weatherstripping can be replaced. (On

From SRHA Southern Railway Presidents’ File 182, Box 6390 I did not realize the number of foreign lines official cars the Southern moved. Here are three (reduced size and resolution) examples from a r