Southern RR Fans- PHOTOS

This is one of the scratch built cabooses that Brother Love did for me.  

Neal Jeter

Hi guys and ladies, never get tired pursuing this topic.  Now that Scott Mann has mentioned producing the Southern Crescent cars in a set and add ons,  I have a question?  Please give me your opinions.  How do the "Southern Railroad street people and diehards" feel about a different look for Crescent Cars.  I'm personally glad to see some different choices on the market.

My Best Regards,

Tommy

Received yesterday from Trainworld the latest Lionel Legacy FM Train Master now with a single headlight as Southern purchased them. Looks and runs fine.

I received the Southern FM Trainmasters from Brian at Legacy Station.

A little over a month ago I found this old Lionel Southern 4501 Mikado sitting broken in a used train store. Anyways, $80, a cosmetic restoration, and TMCC upgrade later, she is looking brand new. Being at school in DC and away from the layout, the next best thing was to bring the 4501 to the old Southern Railway Headquarters building in Washington, DC (1500 K St.)

The only way an item is produced now is if enough people pre-order from their hobby shop or train store.

Andrew

Here is the O scale SOUTHERN automobile carrier from LIONEL that I got through Mr. Muffin's Trains.

Andrew

Two photos in even brighter light of the Lionel O scale SOUTHERN automobile carrier.

Andrew

Brian at Legacy Station shipped the new Lionel Southern E8s. 

@Lionlman posted:

Brian at Legacy Station shipped the new Lionel Southern E8s.

I’m not really a Southern fan, but that is one stunning engine!!! Enjoy running it.

@Lionlman posted:

Brian at Legacy Station shipped the new Lionel Southern E8s.

Those are beautiful. Too bad the prr one's bombed on the right color.

After hearing about the problem with the PRR units, I was worried the Southern units might not be correct.  I was relieved when I opened them and saw the green was correct.

Neal Jeter

Lionel shipped their Vision Line stock cars.  I ordered a set of the Santa Fe cars.  With a little modification I converted one of my Lionel 27882 Southern stock cars to a Vision Line stock car. 

Neal Jeter

“Local at twilight”

I received these from Brian at Legacy Station a couple of weeks ago.  Lionel 2131110 Southern Railway 4-6-0 "947" and Lionel 2131370 Southern Railway "4501".

@Lionlman posted:

I received these from Brian at Legacy Station a couple of weeks ago.  Lionel 2131110 Southern Railway 4-6-0 "947" and Lionel 2131370 Southern Railway "4501".

Brian is a decent guy to do business with!!

WOW, the Lionel E8's look fantastic and I just saw a video of these. Great detail and I like the sharp and crisp paint scheme.

If I wasn't so heavy into CB&Q, GN and NP, I would love to have a set of these with a complete passenger set.

I just finished painting the Lionel Legacy 4-6-2 Crescent - it was an unpainted engineering sample. I really like it, but do I keep it or sell it?

RAY

I'm a lover of the fallen flag Northeastern Railroads but, Geez, the Southern Crescent emerald green livery is downright stunning.

I have that livery on these Postwar Lionel Southern F3s:

I remember seeing an article with photos in a model train magazine (it might have been OGR magazine) many years ago about Frank Sinatra's O Gauge train layout, and I remember seeing a beautiful green Southern Crescent locomotive on that layout. Arnold

Atlas recently shipped their 1973 Ford F-100 pickup trucks.  I purchased a UP truck and removed the UP herald with Testors Easy Lift Off using a Qtip.  I then applied a Microscale HO Southern Herald from their decal sheet 87-32.

Neal Jeter

Hard to believe it’s a RailKing!

Steve:

You do amazing work!  Is the Savannah and Atlanta boxcar a custom car?

Neal Jeter

@Lionlman posted:

Steve:

You do amazing work!  Is the Savannah and Atlanta boxcar a custom car?

Neal Jeter

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                                                                 Never offered in "O"

                                                           Blasted a Frisco Lionel PS-1

                                    Cant wait for the OEM's to get a clue.

So I thought that it would be fun to pull out all my Southern cabooses and run them as a train. Turns out that I have 11 of them! Boy I wish I had one of @Brother_Love hand made ones. Unfortunately, only a couple of mine are close to prototypical to Southern.

Searched like crazy to find a set of Railking passenger cars with the same or similar paint scheme but it seems as if bigfoot and his unicorn are hoarding them.

Ended up going with a 4/2/1 car set of stremliners.

@Doug W. posted:

Searched like crazy to find a set of Railking passenger cars with the same or similar paint scheme but it seems as if bigfoot and his unicorn are hoarding them.

Ended up going with a 4/2/1 car set of stremliners.

Doug, MTH did make some green and white passenger cars but that is NOT prototypical, Southern never had such a passenger car.

Ron

Wow, page 33 of Southern Hospitality Fun, C Sam, this is a great thread, the  Southern railroad has some really beautiful diesels, also some beautiful steamers, and many folks showing there Southern trains here on this thread is amazing, beautiful layouts, videos, and creativity. This is what I have in the Southern markings. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Doug W. posted:

Searched like crazy to find a set of Railking passenger cars with the same or similar paint scheme but it seems as if bigfoot and his unicorn are hoarding them.

Ended up going with a 4/2/1 car set of stremliners.

Doug- I know Williams/Bachmann made a similar paint scheme for their 72ft streamliners, you may have better luck finding those:

I know MTH also made that fictional paint scheme as an earlier Premier line offering, as was mentioned above:

I was lucky in find this at Mid-South Hobbies & Games in Memphis last week while on a business trip. After seeing a similar one on a popular auction site for a "reduced" price of $85.00, I was eager to pay $24.99 for this. Next time you find yourself in Memphis, be sure to stop by Mid-South Hobbies and eat the BBQ!

Anyone order and receive the Lionel 2122030 Southern freight set? I think they are starting to appear at dealers now, but not sure. Interested to see how they turned out, since the loco was green but everything had an ACI label.

Larry:

I ordered it as well from Brian at Legacy Station.  He’s good at sending me an invoice as soon as it comes in.  I haven’t heard anything yet.

Neal Jeter

I hope the Southern Train set comes in soon. I preordered over a year ago. My local hobby store ordered 5 including mine. I called today and he said it had not arrived yet.

@Tom Morris posted:

I was lucky in find this at Mid-South Hobbies & Games in Memphis last week while on a business trip. After seeing a similar one on a popular auction site for a "reduced" price of $85.00, I was eager to pay $24.99 for this. Next time you find yourself in Memphis, be sure to stop by Mid-South Hobbies and eat the BBQ!

My wife and I hit that place when we were there last. And then went to Marlowes BBQ which was the best I've ever had ANYWHERE.

This is a video of my RK 0-6-0 on Pat’s (Harmon Yards) layout. This was from the auctioneer who sold off MTH’s R&D inventory. Pat replaced the drive block, and a bent front pilot, at a very reasonable price.

Looking for information on the Lionel 38427 Central of Georgia GP-7 #128. Seems to be from the 2010 End of Year catalog. There was also a 38426 CofG 126 as well.  It is not shown in the regular listing in the 2021 guide. Trying to find a current value for this Legacy equipped loco.

Hi Larry,

From Lionel's website, this unit is from 2010.

https://www.lionel.com/product...-diesel-128-6-38427/

Tom

There were two road numbers. 6-38427 was #128 and 6-38426 was #126. It was offered in the 2010 End of Year Offers catalog. Also in same catalog was 6-27657 COG caboose.

@Tom Morris posted:

There were two road numbers. 6-38427 was #128 and 6-38426 was #126. It was offered in the 2010 End of Year Offers catalog. Also in same catalog was 6-27657 COG caboose.

I found that, but trying to see why items in that end of year catalog aren't shown in the Greenberg price guide. Even if they are uncatalogued, they should be in there for completeness. Thinking of maybe selling mine, and trying to determine a fair price for this Legacy GP-7.

Funny. The latest Southern "4501" Mikado (above) from Lionel is not correct, as it is merely a USRA Mike, which the 4501 is not. The funny part is that Lionel actually produced a model of the real 4501 (not a USRA stand-in) many years ago, and offered it as the 4501, plus in several different road names over the years.

Forgive me since this is not a photo but I finally put together a video of my Weaver Tennessean w/ PS3

@D500 posted:

The latest Southern "4501" Mikado (above) from Lionel is not correct, as it is merely a USRA Mike, which the 4501 is not.

Just like how there's a SRR 630 which is just their stock consolidation. Oh, what I'd pay for a good representation of that loco and I don't even model standard gauge...