I just received my copy of the new Southern Railway book from White River Productions. I haven't seen much mention of it here, but you certainly get your money's worth. Excellent color photography. Cu

The attached photo appeared in the 2010 Sept-Oct edition of TIES. This was the issue with the stories about the introduction of AC signaling to the Southern. This photo ran on the back page and was ca

I've mentioned that there are 1,000+ contracts and agreements in the SRHA archives. Now that most of the archives moving and construction projects are done...thanks to TVRM and many SRHA volunteers, w

Begin forwarded message: From: george eichelberger <geichelberger@...> Subject: Re: Consolidated Roster Date: December 13, 2018 at 9:41:58 AM EST To: southern-railway-system@groups.io Jason: I do not

Hi all, Quick Question - I've been looking at photos, but can't tell, were the lower headlights (or were they mars lights?) on the E6, E7, and E8 units that had them, supposed to be parallel to the tr

Hey All, I saw this link from a gentleman on the SOU Modelers Facebook group, but I don't know if it had been posted here. Not sure how many members here are a member of that page, so I apologize if y

First of all, to everyone that has joined the Southern Railway group..... Hello and welcome to the new Southern Railway group sponsored by the Southern Railway Historical Association. Membership in th

Just a reminder SRHA 2019 calendars are now available with details at www.srha.net. CEA

Next Friday and Saturday is the November work session at the SRHA archives. Most of our shelving is up and we plan to empty as many packing boxes as possible. One project (of many) is to organize our

In addition to the Specs and drawing lists for different orders of freight and passenger cars and locos the SRHA archives include quite few rolling stock purchase contracts . The contracts are not goo

All: Here is the working copy of the Southern Railway passenger car Specification/P-Card Index. We'll be organizing the passenger car Specs, Card Lists and drawing at next weekend's archives work sess

Mike: I agree 100%! People have asked why there is so much “business” data in the Southern 50’ box car book. With the data we have in the SRHA collection, I thought even the “rivet counters” would be

Does anyone have information on these boxcars? They were rebuilt 40 boxcars with 16' door openings and double plug doors. Some had loaders insd=talled and were called container cars. They are in the 1

All: I trust it will be OK with NIck Molo if I forward his “Master Class” discussion to the group. I’ve posted it on the Southern Railway (not only “modeling”) group because of its business and operat

I have always liked how the Southern's modified E-6s looked.. As soon as I saw the Proto 2000 E-6s I have wanted to modify one in the same style. The pier panels on the body castings Athern uses in th

I realize thirty pages of meeting notes from 1904 will not interest everyone but to see for yourself use the link to Google Drive to view or download the notes of a meeting at Southern headquarters in

I have been looking at purchasing the Walthers F7 models. The numbers offered, though, do not seem to match the configuration very well. The models have dynamic brakes and steam generators. My researc

All, Recent news...Sunset Models/3rd Rail is now going to attempt do the dual service (steam generator + rooftop air tanks) F3's in both green and black. These are O Scale models and come in both 3R (

All, I'm currently trying to figure out three things for Southern (Phase 3) F3's that had the Rooftop Tanks: 1. Does anyone have photos or drawings of the roofs to determine where piping for the tanks

Does anyone have a copy of the subject list dated January 1, 1967 (on or about)? If so, would you let me know if all nine of the Central of Georgia F3 locomotives (901 - 909) are listed. Thank you. Da