The attached memo is from a period when the Southern was attempting to cut off passenger trains and altering remaining schedules to adjust arrival and departure and connecting train times. The Penn Ce

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

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

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

David, I know exactly what you are talking about. But, Mr. Ike said that they were. When I read that, I thought maybe he was talking about the boxcar conversions, but then, I don't know everything. Bu

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

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

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

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

The Southern had a bunch of modified 3-bay open hoppers for clay service. These are the ones with sorta-clamshell doors held closed by chains that were wrapped around spools on the carside. I gather t

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

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

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

Black lettering.

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

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

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

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

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

Yet another major file(s) in the SRHA archives concern the Seaboard Coast Line merger in the mid 60s. In addition to competition from the ACL and SAL combination, the Southern was interested in improv