Did Southern have a standard brick size or sizes? -- Mike Turner MP-Z35

Okay, here's your reminder: The Great Scale Model Train show at the Timonium, Maryland Fairgrounds will be held at the Cow Palace on February 5-6 and NO Super Bowl will be interfering with show events

Dumb question night. When Southern trains passed on double tracks, which side of the engine was to the inside of the double tracks adjacent to the train it was passing? -- Allen Cain Modeling the Sout

Although the information is very much in “raw” form and not well organized, the SRHA archives have many Mechanical Dept. and Hayne Shop files on car rebuild programs (Special Car Programs - SCPs), new

All: This copied from the MFCL list. As I have said many times, the SRHA archives are full of this kind of (detailed) material. We need help scanning and organizing everything! Ike 2a. Southern Automo

McDonough Wood Yard. McDonough Georgia October 1997 Gerhard Anderson Photo

Southern 318202 1775 cuft. Gondola Seaboard System Moncrief Yard. Jacksonville Florida November 1985 Gerhard Anderson Photo.

Southern Railway 3930 U23B Built 5-74 Foley Florida April 18 1976 Gerhard Anderson Photo.

With so much uncatalogued material in the SRHA archives, in many cases, it is difficult to research a particular question. One question I have had is when did the Southern change the wooden “boxes” on

It appears the weather will not be a problem for this week's SRHA archives work session. The archives will be open starting around 8:00 AM on Friday and Saturday. We usually don't leave until around 7

Hi all, Thanks again to Ike for the reminder. I wrote up my day at the Cocoa Beach RPM. An O-scaler in a sea of HO. If you're just interested in seeing the models, there's also a link in there to 167

All: There may be some rain/snow over Chattanooga this Friday when folks are heading to the archives work session. We’ll wait until tomorrow to make a decision but stay tuned. We can always shift the

Here, from 1954, is a list of some of the biggest shippers on the Southern, what box cars they prefer to load and how many loads per week. This is the kind of material "From the Archives" we can inclu

I'm curious which coal mining area provided coal for the Buck Steam Plant? I understand this Duke Power plant was near Asheville and would have been served by the Southern. However,was the coal provid

The January SRHA archives work session will be next weekend. In addition to continuing to scan our “D” size drawings, we have multiple other projects underway, enough to interest about anyone. One pro

I've never been a real railroader, so I was hoping some of you with more up-close experience with the Southern could help me understand a few operational details about train orders and timetable movem

After seeing emails about drawings etc. it has rekindled my desire to model the Southern RR station in Tuscaloosa Alabama. I used to go back to work with my dad after his supper break at the drug stor

This PDF (455 page!) version of the SRHA digital files “By Location” index is somewhat out of date but it provides an idea of the photos, documents and drawings we have scanned in the SRHA archives. A

I offer for sale for your discriminating pleasure, a complete set of near mint condition Railway Prototype Cyclopedias, issue numbers 1 thru 34 that include one double-issue No. 31 & 32. The total num

Mike: Good questions! (Would you send me your direct email address?) Unfortunately, due to the condition of the microfilm, I only managed to scan two of the nine drawings. I need to check but I recall