some "Southern" comfort.....

briansilvermustang posted:

The SRR didn't run through my hometown growing up but it did run just north of there.

I used to see scenes like this all the time as a kid. Hard to believe it's all in the past now...

briansilvermustang posted:

Wouldn't this be more CSX-related?

The queen herself 

Taken from my dorm window, NC State University, in the early 1980s.

Brian,

   Here ya go, a working part of my office on the Roll Top Desk.  My 1925 Crescent Phone with Train Sounds and whistle as the Ringer.  I love it!

PCRR/Dave

that phone is pretty cool Dave !!

Brian,

   It's been around for years and still works!  The Train Sounds in her are very realistic!

PCRR/Dave

wish I was at Spencer when this happened

Southern passenger (model) Pullmans about 1935 during the Great Depression after the Green and two tone Green cars of the name trains were either on the dead track or repainted. Exception were some headend cars, RPO and Express, that unlike money losing passenger coaches created revenue. It was not unusual to see the new E6 pulled "silver trains" of 1941 with green headend cars in the consists. The Southerner,and Tennessean in March-May '41 and the Crescent in December '41. However WWII interrupted delivery of new cars (and diesels) ordered by Southern and others until 1948-49 delivery and many old Heavyweights were resurrected to haul Troops and War Department personnel.

love your southern

During mid-1960's rode Southern's 'The Pelican' Tr. #41 from Penn Station to Tuscaloosa, Alabama for school. Quite a few times the train operated in multiple sections due to troop movements by rail. A few times was able to ride the cab, usually at night, and boy did those miles fly by. Also met Graham Claytor one morning on Roanoke, Virginia station platform as he waited to board his N&W office car on the rear. Train operated over N&W trackage Lynchburg-Roanoke-Bristol as part of a combined N&W/SR train that included an N&W Grill-Diner for breakfast meals, otherwise only box lunch on the SR thru Tennessee.

(And sometimes the regular diesels needed help!)

Liked train 41 because its early morning arrival (around 2am!) in Tuscaloosa gave me another day home with family...and I then went to my morning classes at the University.

Walter M. Matuch 

Southern  4-6-2 power in G scale from Aristocraft and HO from Pacific Fast Mail.  Holdover from 1970s HO which was driving me crazy counting rivets    The hostile climate and rough terrain at our mountain cottage made me back away from an outdoor railroad with G.  6 car Southern Crescent consist in G scale, 8 cars and Sou Crest reefer in O.

Abandoned G in early '80s after building  over 50 treated trestle bents to fly over boulders and ravines. All scales  my 2 sons adopted before they had kids and lost the time to move forward.

My favorite "Southern" diesels [dismals]which I'm no longer allowed to operate. 

Photo of Cone Mills boxcar donated to Spencer Museum back in the day and photographed when my two sons and myself visited during Fall 2017. The boxcar was one of 17 purchased by Cone from Southern Ry during the boxcar shortage of the 1980s and used to service 5 plants scattered  across the mill rail yard. The objective was aimed at freeing up modern Southern boxcars for mainline use while we used the friction bearing cars banned from mainline use ( we had to haul it to Spencer via lowboy trailer). The old cars originally came from Central of Georgia upon the 1982 merger with SRR.

Dewey, nice picture and some good information.  Thanks

Models of workhorse Southern Switchers: 1)Heavy 0-8-0 switcher assigned to subsidiary Alabama Great Southern. 

2) Model of 0-6-0 assigned by Spencer Shops to Greensboro passenger yard in 1950. Note that passenger Switchers are decorated the same as the Southern passenger engines.

briansilvermustang posted:

Hmm. Do you know where this was taken?

With the angle of the track at the depot and the row of brick buildings between the depot at the crossing, I'd almost think this was Johnson City, TN, but I don't think there was ever a tall building like the one in the background.

I believe it is in Salisbury, N.C. just south of Spencer shops.

p51 posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

Hmm. Do you know where this was taken?

With the angle of the track at the depot and the row of brick buildings between the depot at the crossing, I'd almost think this was Johnson City, TN, but I don't think there was ever a tall building like the one in the background.

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Southern Railway SOU #1380, a streamlined Ps-4 Class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive. SOU #1380 was also the only streamlined steam locomotive to be placed in service with Southern Railway

briansilvermustang posted:

Southern Railway SOU #1380, a streamlined Ps-4 Class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive. SOU #1380 was also the only streamlined steam locomotive to be placed in service with Southern Railway

Is that the Tennessean?  

Jim

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PRRronbh posted:

A few,

 

Ron, thanks for posting this.  When the Freedom train was touring the country.  It came to my home town and the Southern Railway brought a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston and ran it on the Southerns siding.  I couldn't ride the BFoC but they did let me sit in the engineers seat while they were firing it up. I've got a video of that somewhere.

Steve

 

Yep, pulled the "Tennessean" from D.C. to Monroe beginning in 1941 where it was coupled to a N&W "J" for the trip over the mountains to Bristol. Then, the new E6  "Streamliners" took it to Memphis. Southern didn't want to "waste" a new E6 diesel on the short trip from Washington to Monroe and return. The Spencer-built  Streamlined  #1380 was the perfect promotion for the "Tennessean" as it departed and arrived at D.C Union Station. (at the time N&W would not let Southern have trackage rights for a  E6 led "Tennessean" Monroe to Bristol, thus Spencer streamlined the #1380 which was already being shopped and which did not have an Elesco feedwater heater which would have interfered with the build).

The Tennessean it is a great train to model, one gets to use power from two railroads and two eras--steam and diesel. 

Great photos everyone...

Good info Dewey.  Thanks

Dewey Trogdon posted:

Yep, pulled the "Tennessean" from D.C. to Monroe beginning in 1941 where it was coupled to a N&W "J" for the trip over the mountains to Bristol. Then, the new E6  "Streamliners" took it to Memphis. Southern didn't want to "waste" a new E6 diesel on the short trip from Washington to Monroe and return. The Spencer-built  Streamlined  #1380 was the perfect promotion for the "Tennessean" as it departed and arrived at D.C Union Station. (at the time N&W would not let Southern have trackage rights for a  E6 led "Tennessean" Monroe to Bristol, thus Spencer streamlined the #1380 which was already being shopped and which did not have an Elesco feedwater heater which would have interfered with the build).

The Tennessean it is a great train to model, one gets to use power from two railroads and two eras--steam and diesel. 

Thank you!  I think Ive seen MTH offer this paint scheme.   Not sure if the used the same number. 

Jim