The SRHA Archives Work Session for March will be this weekend, Friday & Saturday, March 15 & 16. The schedule for future Work Sessions may be found at SRHA.net (on the first page) The remaining sessio

The City of Greensboro is working with NS and the NCRR to paint the various railroad bridges within the city limits, and would like to paint them to be historically correct for the Southern Railway. D

Can anyone cite the builder(s) and dates for the Charleston Division drawbridges over the Congaree River (SC Line MP 102.6) and over the Wateree River on the SB Line (MP 5.2)? Also looking for the dat

Just a little reminder as the next mid-Atlantic region train show is just about a week away (Next weekend to be exact !). The show will be at Fredericksburg, Virginia's Convention Center on the Carl S

Just a reminder that the SRHA Archives Work Session will be Friday & Saturday, Feb 22-23 Jim Thurston

Hi all, I am working on a project and trying to gather info on FP-7's. Anybody got dimensions or drawings of rooftop piping? (Were they cooling coils or air lines up there?) Also what about location o

SRHA is in the process of scanning more than 1,000 contracts, operating agreements, leases, joint facility agreements and equipment trusts. In the next few weeks we should be able to upload scans of t

For anyone interested in the Southern Railway, and Southeastern railroads in general, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga has been home to the largest collection of Southern Rai

We are back from the Cocoa Beach RPM and this weekend's Atlanta train show. I expect several folks we spoke to will help at Friday and Saturday's SRHA archives work session. We will be working on phot

I recently purchased a Nikon Cool Scan 5000 to scan my large slide collection. Slides I did not take and ones that are no longer applicable to my modeling, research, etc., will be sold off. The first

I recently purchased a Nikon Cool Scan 5000 to scan my large slide collection. Slides I did not take and ones that are no longer applicable to my modeling, research, etc., will be sold off. The first

I'm helping the Apple Valley Model RR Club update their web site re: heritage of X793. I have built and renovation dates. I need to know the 4-digit number it once carried and the freight car it was b

Over the weekend we inventoried the SR Contract Books in our possession, and found that we are missing 4 volumes out of 28. A complete list is attached. If any of you have copies of these missing volu

A few weeks ago, there was a post re: an ebay slide of a Silverside gon. I replied that I have an original negative showing the N&W 4-8-0 475 it was coupled to with info on the envelope stating Bristo

Here are three links to essentially the same file on Google, Drive. They are tiff, jpeg and a zip versions of the scans for the index to Southern Contracts Volume XII. There are approximately 28 Volum

Now that all of the Southern Railway Presidents' files are in place and accessible in the Chattanooga archives, we can focus on cleaning up and updating the 97 different indexes that cover the 15,000+

David: Your points, and questions are excellent. Let me take a stab at an answer….. Yes, there is the concept of multiple “processes” to organize, scan, make available for researchers and publish mate

There has been a lot of interest generated on this site concerning the SRHA archives in Chattanooga. If you are not already a member I would invite you to join our organization at www.srha.net. CEA

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