Hi, does anyone think a Southern Railway forum could be a good idea? I think if we could get other Southeast railroad historical societies involved such as the ACL-SAL, L&N, and NC&StL, it could reall

Many thanks to those on the list who came through with excellent photos and other information concerning Southern Railway’s aggregate hoppers, the first of which was constructed by the Greenville Stee

Is anyone aware of published model track plans based on Lynchburg, VA? -- John Ryan

I'm not a locomotive expert by any means, and one of our colleagues from White River Productions, Dale Sanders, has posed a question I hope someone in the group can answer. Dale says: I'm in the proce

Hello I model Southern outdoors in 1/29 scale and indoors in HO, in Oban, Scotland. I need more information, photos and possibly diagrams of the consist of these trains. I checked Ralph Ward’s Souther

Here's some questions for the motive power gurus. I have just received my Rapido B36-7's. Rapido chose to model numbers 3816, 3818, and 3819. All three have the white number boards with black numerals

Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the atta

I've only seen one photo of the 10,000th Rapid Discharge Car, Southern 390399: http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1980/80-11/ortner.html In this photo the car appears to be marked with only the large SO

All: We will keep allowing attachments to posts but it is about time to delete attachments from earlier messages to reduce our storage at groups.io. We think some of the past attachments have been of

All: For an article in an upcoming TIES, I’d like to find some publishable images of Southern’s aggregate hoppers (pre-NS merger), most of which were built by Greenville Steel Car Co. in the early-197

Here are two photos of Sou 550550. One is when the car was turned over to the Southern, the second photo is the only time I saw the car long after it was painted. The “in service” photo was taken in M

<< The reason is I am going to be building the Murphy Branch and the Main line from Knoxville to Spencer. I know this is a lot information. If there's other out there that can help with this informati

I have attached one of many items in the SRHA archives that document Southern's business carrying auto parts. Because of the Ford and GM assembly plants in Atlanta, Southern participated in equipment

Southern was nowhere near unique for this little idiom. The B&O used it on the names of stations' signs at the various locations as noted on many early photographs and likely even much later. Bob Cohe

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

Thanks to Rick Bell, a list of Southern "SCPs" (Special Car Programs) and the later "CP" (Car Programs) is on the "Public" part of the SRHA file server. Use the same URL, etc. described for the Pullma

Mike: There is a lot (!) of material available on the S Line and Murphy branch but I have to ask; How much detail are you going to model? My own layout covers only from Murphy Jct to Old Fort (an old

in the past months I have studying pictures of Southern SD-45 fleet. I have found one item very curious and can find no information about it. The item in question is an extension of the battery box on

I’m looking for a near complete compendium list of Southern Employee Timetables. Many thanks in advance for any help that anyone could provide. Robert Richardson Henderson, NC MP S114.5

The October Southern Railway Historical Assoc. archives work session was particularly productive, toward getting our paper files organized and scanned. The November work session (at the archives on 11