I've got two questions pertaining to modeling Southern passenger cars. 1) When did Southern start applying horizontal gold stripe to the bottoms of Pullman green passenger cars and 2) when did Souther

There are multiple files in SRHA archives box 612 labeled “Operating Conditions 1966”. They are in the Presidents’ files as virtually every detail of the operation of the Southern Railway was communic

Two more items from the SRHA files.....certainly an unusual subject in 1968, a steam loco and Automatic Train Stop..... I sent these to "our" Jim Howe (a member of SRHA's BOD and the Association's Att

Crosstie Models’ owner, Josh Clark, and I have reached an agreement for Smoky Mountain Model Works, Inc. to resume production of the Southern/NS/N&W GS50/G82 large wood chip hopper kit in HO. This mod

From the SRHA Archives: The attached letter from Ralph Budd to the Chairman of the “Southeastern Railroad Presidents’ Conference” may predate orders from the “Office of Defense Transportation” (ODT) t

Hi everyone, I have a few questions on Spencer: I know he claimed to have served in the Confederate army, but I can't seem to find what unit he served with. Does anyone know the answer to this? Detail

Southern accounting and billing terminology questions For anyone who may know early 20th century Southern Railway billing terminology: I found a reference in a 1920's era note about "card billing" vs

Hey all, I am visiting Atlanta for a few days next week and on Thursday, I am planning to make a trip for the first time to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sou

Does anyone know of any published resources for the Southern's rolling stock? The reprint of the 1953 ORER is fine for numbers of freight cars, but very little else.

Hey Cuz .. contact me off-list please. I have a question but need your current email addy to send. Thx. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/ -- Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com

Hi, does anyone think a Southern Railway forum could be a good idea? I think if we could get other Southeast railroad historical societies involved such as the ACL-SAL, L&N, and NC&StL, it could reall

I'm planning on modelling the L&N St. Louis Division - but not really, I can explain. As far as I know, the L&N interchanged with the Southern at Belleville and Mount Vernon in Illinois and Evansville

Many thanks to those on the list who came through with excellent photos and other information concerning Southern Railway’s aggregate hoppers, the first of which was constructed by the Greenville Stee

Is anyone aware of published model track plans based on Lynchburg, VA? -- John Ryan

I'm not a locomotive expert by any means, and one of our colleagues from White River Productions, Dale Sanders, has posed a question I hope someone in the group can answer. Dale says: I'm in the proce

Here's some questions for the motive power gurus. I have just received my Rapido B36-7's. Rapido chose to model numbers 3816, 3818, and 3819. All three have the white number boards with black numerals

Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the atta

I've only seen one photo of the 10,000th Rapid Discharge Car, Southern 390399: http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1980/80-11/ortner.html In this photo the car appears to be marked with only the large SO

All: We will keep allowing attachments to posts but it is about time to delete attachments from earlier messages to reduce our storage at groups.io. We think some of the past attachments have been of

All: For an article in an upcoming TIES, I’d like to find some publishable images of Southern’s aggregate hoppers (pre-NS merger), most of which were built by Greenville Steel Car Co. in the early-197