All, So maybe this isn't the right list serve for this topic, but I'll start here as its mostly historical in nature (with an admitted purpose to create factory models). *TLDR - Looking for some answe

Mose was on the board of directors but his brother Garrison owned the TAG. There is a document in the SRHA archives which lays out pre Southern ownership. Some stocks were registered to Garrison perso

During the mid 1960s, the Southern made a concerted effort to eliminate as many passenger trains as possible. While many people would assume it was mostly the work of D.W. Brosnan, his “man behind the

Not sure if the io.groups site will strip attachments or not, but attached is one scan of the train, at Mitchell VA. on April 27,1985. I saw & photographed him first at the Route 29 o/p at Culpepper,

Hello I am researching the movement of Venezuelan iron ore by rail from the Port of Mobile to TCI steel mills in Birmingham, AL starting in 1954. Based on work so far, I have found that three railroad

And in late April, 1985, on a cloudy day, I chased & photographed Southern titanium ore train south of Charlottesville, with all D&H hoppers, which I'm 99% certain originated at the mine at Tahawus NY

We received an interesting question from John Horvath (NYCHS) about a group of Pullman Plan 3979A (8-1-2) sleepers assigned to the Ponce DeLeon. While we continue to look through the photos in the SRH

Reading though passenger train-off files in the SRHA archives, I realized there was a direct relationship between the Southern wanting to reduce passenger train miles and the early development of inte

All: I attempted to copy the following series (some omitted) of posts from ther Passenger Car LIst but apparently I "fat fingered" the process. Here is attempt number two.... Ike *** I am putting the

For a medium size railroad, the Southern maintained sufficient freight cars to receive, rather than pay, per diem for interchanged freight cars. When cars were MOL free running, there are multiple let

We are gathering material to use in a future TIES article on the “Florida Sunbeam”. If anyone has any information or material to contribute, please contact us at editor@... or archives@.... The “Sunbe

Southern reweigh and repack shop codes On the steam freight car list (STMFC) there is an excel sheet which has the reweigh and repack location shop codes compiled for all US railroads mostly by Richar

Can anyone give me a general idea of what percentage of cars on Southern main lines in 1955 would have been Southern? I was thinking 50% but that is just a guess. Any other percentages of other roads

A few questions about the ever popular hogshead cars. 1) Where they ever in interchange service? Especially in their original role of hauling tobacco "hogsheads". 2) I think most of them spent their l

Patrick Tillery please contact me off-list re: your SOU/NS wood chip hopper reservation. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/

FYI to all: Southern Railway in Color Volume 4 is now available for pre-order from Morning Sun Books. I just ordered mine. There's a $10.00 discount for pre-orders. Morning Sun is listing an August 1

All: Sorry some folks were having a problem downloading the SR tonnage map from Google Drive. They changed something and reset the defaults for downloads. I changed it back to simply requiring using t

Hello Ike; As another modeler of the Southern lines in North Carolina (in my case, the S line from Spencer/Salisbury to Morganton) this doesn't surprise me as much as you might think. I have the good

There is an extensive set of microfilm, now scanned, drawings of Brookwood (Peachtree) Station in Atlanta in the SRHA archives. All are partial views of the architect’s plans in the very detailed styl

Ike, Specifically what are you trying to accomplish with the Brookwood station drawings? A re constructed set of original drawings? Organized arrangement of existing drawings or composite of Floor Pla