If you didn't make the huge train shows in West Springfield, Mass. or Timonium, Maryland the past 2 weekends, you still have a chance to get some new goodies this coming Saturday - one day only - trai

I am quite uneducated on this subject but has there been any consideration of Southern Railway 107 being sent to a new home other than Dollywood? It is in poor condition and is relatively unnoticeable

I thought this might be interesting but I took my turn at kitbashing a Southern 4-4-0 in a computer game called Trainz 2019. I made the #3841 because it was one of the last 4-4-0’s running on the syst

Just back from an excellent train show at the Timonium Fairgrounds this past weekend, with a new acquisition might be of interest to you: It's a group of portrait images of steam locomotives, the so-c

After a few hours of searching through old films of NC, I had no luck finding any footage of railroads. I was curious when I saw what appeared to be Spencer Shops in 1941, but, it showed no trains. It

The SRHA archives has grown to include many thousands of scanned drawings that cover virtually aspect of the Southern Railway System. Although it’s “nice” to have them in the archives, many need to be

The “Southern Road Switchers” book draft is much too large to print in one volume (167 pages with much more “modern” material yet to be included. The 400-500 scans several folks are helping me label n

I liked the stuff in the recent Ties magazine about the Hickory freight station. I hadn't ever seen pictures of this before. One of the pictures was taken in 1973, which was about the time that the So

Looking for PHASE classifications for SOU 44 Ton switchers 1950 to 1953. Rapido has announced these but they are in the tuxedo scheme so I am planning to buy an undecorated and paint it green. Their u

Always thought pre-track warrant track line ups were iffy. CEA

If anyone is willing help look at scans and give them filenames, send me an email and I’ll send a link to a group of files on Google Drive. These were scanned this past weekend and cover (mostly) EMD

I recall that there was discussion about a Southern Railway book to potentially be made. I do not know if this will indeed come to be true, but I would like to ask if there would be anyway to make a b

Of the 10 or 11 different RR's that Richard Prince did way back when, not counting the 4 reprints, the Southern one is by far the most common and prevalent from what I see at shows. I have at least on

There is a silent film of action on the Saluda grade that can be found on YouTube right here, https://youtu.be/3XyAHXJNYhc Sadly it is a VHS copy of the film. Does anyone know if the original film str

A few weeks back, I posted that a Prince book was for sale on eBay. No doubt someone MUST have bought it. Anyone bid? (that might indicate interest) The Prince book does come up for sale off and one,

Just that last minute little reminder of the next train show coming up THIS weekend; Richmond, Virginia on the weekend of January 21-22, 2023; Saturday and Sunday. It will be located in the Richmond R

I feel like I've seen this information referenced before, either in this group (though I couldn't find it in a search) or elsewhere, but what system did SOU use to designate branch lines with letter d

Scanning and organizing the passenger car drawings, memos, specifications and maintenance files continues at the SRHA archives. Scheduled work sessions are the third Friday and Saturday of every month

Just a little reminder of the next train show coming up in just over a week; Richmond, Virginia on the weekend of January 21-22, 2023; Saturday and Sunday. It will be located in the Richmond Raceway C

Good evening, The latest issue of the Seaboard - Coast Line Modeler has been published and is available for download at https://www.aclsal.org/publications . This issue includes three freight car arti