It has been some time since I looked at scans of the of the oldest Southern passenger car drawings, I revisited a series of “standard” car drawings from 1904 and 05. It took the Southern about ten yea

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-Southern-SOU-1116-Hopper-Car-August-1970/373115491098?hash=item56df6a931a:g:aZIAAOSwlGZfDhpG Looks to have been repainted at Coster prior to this 1970 display (

Just as a reminder, I'm looking for signal prints and other documentation on the timing circuits for Saluda Grade. My intent is to put this information together for a story in "Ties." Any leads would

Because there has been some recent interest in actual consists of the Southern Crescent in its glory days (1972-1979), I have consulted some of my old pocket notebooks and transcribed the consists of

As I am adding DCC to a new Athearn GP50 I just revived. I notice something strange. The loco I am working with has a white number board #7010 and apone further research. I notice that the Southern 70

Bill, In looking thru more of my SOU slides, I realized I DID have one of the rear of the 4/01/78 train, as I had arrived at Peachtree in time to see him arrive and let the passengers off the train. I

Regarding 2nd sections, I looked thru more of my notes & slides, and found two instances which I photographed = - On March 31, 1978, I was at the Peachtree station in the evening, and they ran an extr

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I have 3 new HO resin kits in the works: Southern/original NS 12-post PS 5277 single door boxcar – no waffles. Southern and the original NS were the only roads to order a 12-post 5277 design from Pull

What were the different colors used to letter the Silversides? (The aluminum coal gons.) I gather the colors had meanings, either for which power company they hauled coal for or which subsidiary they

As for who ran the TAG, the TAG had a series of absentee owners. The investor Russell Sage, the railroad investor Newman Erb and the Coverdale syndicate. Only Siskin and earlier the Chambliss syndicat

The SR Presidents' files include correspondence on the Southern's Murphy branch spanning multiple years. The attached letter from TVA to the Southern, dated March 16, 1943 proposes that the railroad t

I left out one local owner. C. E. James. He built the railroad with Sage money and later bought it for himself. When James passed his son sold to the Chambliss syndicate. Mr. James also built the Chat

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

Trying to find Nick Zeno … my emails might be going to your spam folder. Please contact me off-list. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/

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