While doing research on the Virginian, I came across several coal car distribution bulletins. Each month Virginian would list each mine served, its car rating, and how many cars were furnished to each

Hey after a few days with stuffing yourself with good grub and having relatives over you haven't seen in a year or more and gone out shopping, you ARE ready for a nice little train show near Hagerstow

The Mt Vernon, Illinois City Council approved making a bid package to demolish the old Southern Depot in town. They claim it is an eyesore and becoming dilapidated. The track it was on was put into se

To all our archives volunteers and visitors, please note. We thought the Nov. and Dec. so close to both Thanksgiving and Christmas would keep even some of our stalwart volunteers from attending. I pla

Due to a variety of reasons plus the upcoming holidays the November and December work sessions will be combined on a new weekend. The next work session will be the 9th and 10th of December. CEA Sent f

This weekend Saturday, November 12 Just in case you forgot (or didn't know), the semi-annual Winchester Model RR club's fall train show is THIS coming weekend. Note the address below is in the Moose L

Just like in a Southern modeler’s parts box, only bigger… The attached photo is the new center plates for NS office car 8 now being restored as Southern OC-21 at TVRM. Each weigh about 385 lbs. They a

From the SRHA archives at TVRM: There are several Railway Express orders for horse cars to and from the Aiken, SC area in the SRHA archives (example attached). None are for Southern horse cars as they

Does anyone have photos of the tender water fill hatches on various Southern railway locomotive classes, especially the K, Ks, J, H and E classes? I don't know that many of the steam articles in TIES

If Mr. Reed is on this list, please contact me off-list. If a list member knows how to contact him (he doesn’t respond thru his Flickr account), please contact me off-list as well. Thanks. Jim King ht

Does anyone have a Southern Railway station list that can be scanned, or lent to SRHA to scan? We have several, in various conditions, but what we need is a searchable text version that can be used as

Just a little reminder of the Gaithersburg Railroadianna show this coming weekend for 3 exciting days. Okay, if you want to enter during setup times for the dealers to cherry-pick the new goodies, on

I expect it is now common knowledge that several of the Southern cars are being moved to TVRM at Grand Junction (planned for this week!) Long term plans are being developed but, as happens many times,

I'm modeling the eastern part of the Southern's S-Line, from Spencer/Salisbury to Morganton. This includes the crossing of the Catawba River. Does anyone know where I might find plans of the bridge in

Anyone able to speak to how accurate the K-4 decals are for Southern's twin hoppers. K-4 list them starting with the numbers 30, iirc. like 303864. I'm looking at the black twin hoppers around 1950-53

What types of lights were used in Southern Heavyweights and in Southern Streamlined cars? More specifically, what would be an appropriate light color/temperature for each of these? Thanks, -- Allen Ca

There are many thousands of photo prints, 35mm slides and original negatives in the SRHA archives. Although many have been scanned, there are thousands more to be done before we will be able to search

Besides eBay, does anyone have any suggestions on where I can purchase b&w or color southern steam locomotive slides? I’m particularly interested in steam slides. There aren’t many to be found on eBay

Good Morning, Anyone else going to the Mideast NMRA convention this weekend in Charlotte?

The Mid-South Chapter, R&LHS is seeking a copy of structural drawings for the Leeds (AL) depot and AGS Bessemer (AL) freight house. We are assisting with restoration efforts and a copy of the structur