Hello all, looking to have HO scale decals made for the early DS paint scheme. To my knowledge these are not available commercialy. So I have a few assumptions and a few questions for the group to hel

I would like to create a model of a 1975 vintage Greenville Steel Car Gondola. Number series 66090-66699, AAR Type E534. Some are still in use for MW service and have been seen around my home area. Wh

Although I have no idea what some of the items Ford wanted installed in the 800 86' auto parts cars shown on the attached are, taken together the three pages give an idea of how closely the railroads

From the SRHA Archives: Both Alcoa and Reynolds Aluminum maintained lists of commodities that could be carried in freight cars made with their aluminum without voiding the warranties. Here (attached)

I already suspect the answer to this is "anything and everything," considering Atlanta and Bham were massive industrial centers. I suspect the Southern was similar to many railroads in that they broug

Does anyone know of a list of all heavyweight Pullman sleepers acquired by the Southern in 1948 as part of the Pullman antitrust case settlement — and which sleepers were assigned to which subsidiary?

Just in case you hadn't also already gotten this ...................... ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad <reservationsprvsr@...> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021, 06

From the SRHA archives….. Here is a posting to the Modern Freight Car List… Ike Begin forwarded message: From: GEORGE EICHELBERGER <geichelberger@...> Subject: Re: Speaking a different language? Date:

This is a warm wish to all who have made it thru these difficult last 21 months and are still well and now reaping the tasty benefits of the present holiday season: TURKEY with all the trimmings. Happ

Last weekend I attended my first work session at the SRHA facility and was blown away by the vast amount of materials that are in the building, most of which have not been scanned or indexed due to la

On K-4;s decals for the black Southern twin hopper is the following: Sn 3 58. Anyone know what this represents?. I'm sure it's something for March of 1958 but not sure if Sn is a shop abbreviation and

A longtime friend, Doug Brown, is offering for sale much of his collection of builders plates. Among them are three from Southern Railway steam locomotives - one from P-class no. 1216 and both from Ts

Work on Southern office car OC-21 (NS 8) is proceeding at TVRM. Ryan Miller and the shop guys are starting to think toward the car’s exterior painting and lettering. They have the correct Southern let

Gentle beings I recently acquired a Division Point SRR FM H24-66 Train Master model with the correct low end platforms. The Withers Diesel book indicates that SRR acquired them to run between EMD F-un

Hello Ike Please send pages 2 and 3 Thanks in advance Best Regards from Berryville VA Andy Ramsay geichelberger@...> wrote:

I’m looking for color photos and detailed drawings of Southern’s 44 Tonner locomotives in green paint with the large round SR logo on the side. I’m particularly interested in the history of their pain

We have mentioned, and quite a few people have seen, how many original and blueprint drawings we have in the SRHA archives. Although a great many of the General Arrangement and larger size details dra

Two questions for the attached drawing… A.) why would the Southern have such a facility? B.) how many were there and where were they? Ike

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