Southern RR Fans- PHOTOS

Not sure what happened but at one point there was hilarious thread from MartyE about who's from Ceti Alpha V. That may have had something to do with it.

Let's keep it 'sane' and post some good photos of your SR equipment..
Forum member Bruce Clouette painted this new Weaver baggage car for us and is working on a matching MTH Express Mail car to go with it. He is one of the many talented fellas here on the Forum!

With all the snow we have since Christmas it's refreshing to remember some leaves!

C. Sam,

Who makes the Crescent Limited pacific in your photo?

Nice photos Sam, love the Southern even though i don't own any but like to look at it. The only other RR other then my Pennsylvania on my layout is the Texas special. Just no room for other road names.

Dave

Everything is packed away and too hard to get out,but I have one photo on the computer. [IMG][/IMG]

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C. Sam,

Who makes the Crescent Limited pacific in your photo?

That's the MTH model from 2003 or so. Of the three Premiere MTH steamers we have, this one has the best whistle - sounds rich and full, quite unlike the ones in the other two 'big' steamers...

Johnny, that's an interesting Hudson - have never seen that one before!

My "Rolling Thunder" s&n print by Jim Booth of Southern steam at the Charleston,SC passenger station. [IMG][/IMG]

New to me Weaver SRR E-8 units.

Dave & SIRT, you guys do amazing work here! What age fellas are you may I ask? Its quite encouraging to see such talented younger guys active in the hobby...

I agree. Dave and SIRT, awesome work!

Nice photos guys.
Pretty as it gets--The Crescent Limited's #1396 poised in rural Mebane[Lionel's version of the Ps-4??].
The Depot and Section Car Shed---so typical of the creative hand of Vulcan.

Here are my two photos.
Three of my favorite engines.



Working on a Southern RPO conversion.

here are some more southern photos!!!!









................rogerw.

sirt, which manufacturer made your southern boxcars????................rogerw.

Great Pictures Guy's I'll have to post my picture later

thanks sirt!!!! rogerw.

This one is on order


I wish Williams had gone with this Logo


The trains are (or will be) mine the photos were just grabbed off the web at random.

I like the black locomotives best. I do like the Ps-4 pacific in green though.

RogerW's photo

Neal Jeter

lionlman! i love your southern photos!!!!!!..............rogerw.

hey southern fans! check out c.sam's photo in ctt's march 2011 issue......rogerw.

these are NOT my photos. look at the detail of this engine. i don't think it's o scale......check them out!!!



............rogerw.

Great photos Neal.

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Originally posted by Dewey Trogdon:
Nice photos guys.
Pretty as it gets--The Crescent Limited's #1396 poised in rural Mebane[Lionel's version of the Ps-4??].
The Depot and Section Car Shed---so typical of the creative hand of Vulcan.

It's K-line, Dewey. Semi-Scale.

Roger I hope that how my Weavers E8's will look like after my detail project is completed.

s.r. sean, when you get them done, i would like to be the first one to view them!!.............rogerw.

i just found out that this engine is "O" scale!!!...........rogerw.

Vulcan
Both K-Line and Lionel painted their Southern Ps-4s with an accurate green cab roof. Although I guessed wrong between K or L, I knew it was not an MTH version which had incorrect red cab roofs. One exception is my MTH #1396 which was sent to me with a correct green cab roof as a result of some research work I did for them in the early days.

I have a SRR protoype question.
Anyone have any more photos or information about R-3 Rail Wear test Car?

A shot of the train car behind it would be great. If anyone knows the make/ model /year of the truck that would be great too.

It looks to me that the truck is connected to the train car by wire but not actually coupled together. Any one know for sure?
Thanks

Oh these were great looking engines to model,but I've ran this one and it was horrible Loud as I'll get out

I had the NS 5035 (former Southern)on the head of 150 loads of coal this past Friday.There was a former N&W SD-40-2 6100 behind it.The 5035 almost got me standed on the mainline.It kept kicking the governor button and the low water button.
Problem ended up being air built up in the low water button box.I bleed the air out and off we went.
So the ole girls keep marching on making money for the NS.

The Southern Railway R3 Rail test car truck is a mercedes benz. I know the truck a late 60's model I think it might be a D series.

Thanks for all the Southern/NS photos guys.

Ater looking for my files I had backuped to my portable harddrive I can now add my photo's to the thread so enjoy!!


K-Line Southern 4501 Storms into Mossville (Jerry Moss Layout)


4501 Loads her tender with coal to ready heeself for a full day of Steam Excursions


4501 arounds an s curve as she passes on a photo runbye at the Mossville Depot


Southern Quarter Master job from Huntersville arrives in Charlotte yard with the Traveling Box car.


Quarter Master Job pulls into the lead track at Charlotte


The Southern Crescent Limited and the Carolina Special wait there turn to depart Southbound from Charlotte.



lionel Southern Ps-4 #1396



Lionel Southern Ts-1 #1491


Southern Ps-4 and Ts-1 eyeball a stranger in there group as A.T.S.F. Hudson #3447 pay a visit into town. This is my Dad Santa Fe warhorse with Lionel Line Madison Cars.

Thats what I'm talking about!

s.r. sean, i like it!!! great photos!!!!...............rogerw.

s.r.sean, i wish that i could find another southern switch tower!............rogerw.

I'll have to post an all Southern Steam line up with my Lionel Southern Ps-4 #1396 and #1403,Weaver Ps-4 #1380, Lionel Ts-1 #1491, Lionel As-10 #6536,K-Line #4501 and MTH Kanawha #2716. I'm in the hunt for MTH Royal Hudson #2839 when I get my bonus to be a birthday present to myself in April.

hey sean! don't for get to add some "stinkin' diesels" ( dewey )............rogerw

Roger,
I can't beleive you don't have a Southen Switch tower.
I know the Southern had one in Atlanta at Terminal Station but I wasn't based on the MTH version.
I'm looking to get a my hands on a Weaver Watchman tower since there was one here in Charlotte at the old Southern Railway station. I think I'm going to change my mind and buy that MTH Southern Office building if I can find one.

s.r. sean, i do have a southern switch tower! i just wanted another one!!! i think the train loft in winston-salem still has some southern office buildings left..................rogerw.

Thanks Roger,
I'll have to post my Stinking Diesel line up later!!

Great pics guys. Can't wait to see more of your lineup.

Finally had time to take some pics:
My first O gauge engine,Railking 4-6-2 Pacific


Railking Scale H-24-66 pwr/dmy



Railking (not scale) PAs



And here is an MU for Allen

southern mike!!! great pictures!!!...............rogerw.

here is a picture of my mth-premier southern alco pa's...........rogerw.

Roger what P.S.A are used for your PA-3 and E8'S. Wondering if they are using stations named on the Piedmont Division.

s.r. sean, both of my E-8 southern crescent aba's announces stations that are on the piedmont division (washington-atlanta including greensboro and charlotte). my alco pa p.s.a announcements are for the ponce deleon station stops. my E-6 p.s.a station stops are for the tennessean and my southern F-3 had freight sounds but i changed the soundset for p.s.a. sounds. the p.s.a. station stops are for the "southerner" station stops..................rogerw.

Williams custom painted U33C with high hood added



Williams custom painted SD-45 with high hood added



MTH custom painted GP-30 with high hood added



I have had the U33C and GP-30 converted to TMCC with Railsounds.

Neal Jeter

Very nice conversions, Neal!

great pictures lionlman!!!............rogerw.

Revenue on the SRR.. Hauling people and pulpwood

The Trainmaster is a Williams cab with stripes added while the GP7 is an old postwar Lionel that was custom painted many years ago. Both units are on newer TMCC chassis.

C.Sam:

Did you weatherize the pulpwood load? It looks better than what the car came with originally.

Neal Jeter

c.sam great pictures!!! keeep them coming!!!...........rogerw.

Yes I did Lionelman - have three of 'em and each came out different! I plan to redo the one to the rear as I didn't put a thin black wash over it as I did the other two.
Thanks for the nice comments!

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Originally posted by c.sam:
Let's keep it 'sane' and post some good photos of your SR equipment..
Forum member Bruce Clouette painted this new Weaver baggage car for us and is working on a matching MTH Express Mail car to go with it. He is one of the many talented fellas here on the Forum!

Where did Bruce get the decals for this car? I have a unlettered green Weaver RPO that I want to letter Southern (the later block version, not serifed).

Thanks,

If those decals are champs good luck in finding some. Those are some of the hardest decals to find!

The smallest Southern engine!


Ron

Jeff:

Nice work on the RPO!

Neal Jeter

Thanks Neal.

Jeff,

Were those Champ decals or another manufacturer?

Decals were done by Eric Etheridge.

Just released MTH Southern Railway mint car





Industrail Southern hopper



Weaver Southern Railbox



Berkshire Valley Southern kaolin boxcar



Berkshire Valley Southern Food Loading boxcar



Brother Love custom Southern four window caboose



Neal Jeter

My Southern Crescent Limited "Pacific" and steel caboose.

Nice engine Harleyhouse, how do you like her. Nick

Query for you Southern RR guys,

Was 1380 the only streamlined 4-6-2 Southern had?

The reason I ask is I have a drawing by E.H. "Ted" Lannom (Nashville Toy Museum) that was given to me by an old family acquaintance who got it from Ted as a gift.

It's a nice drawing, but the number he used on the engine is 1338. Was 1338 streamlined or did he make use of his artistic license when drawing?

Southern #1338 was a Pacific Ps-2 class bought new from Baldwin in 1913 and retired and scrapped in 1947. It was never streamlined.It operated in workhorse locomotive black decoration for its entire career.

Thanks Dewey! It's a shame he got that wrong (accident or intentional???) cause the drawing is very nice.

I would say it's hard to confuse 1380 with 1338 since 1380 was a Ps-4 and 1338 was a Ps-2. speaking of which 1380 was done in O scale by Weavers Model and as of today no manufacture has ever made a Southern Ps-2.
And for those of us that's into real steam Southern 630 will be back on the rails in the spring of this year. 4501 is still under going work to get her ready and should be back on the rails in the summer.

I hope I will also be back on the rails by this Summer Sean. Rust-painting railsides with a brush and then I have to ballast and do some sort of groundcover.
I know about the $200 "Ballast King" but even if available free it wouldn't help much since over half of my layout is Yard with clusters of turnouts plus crossovers on the dual mainlines.
The Southern, N&W and A&Y trains ain't running and I work sloo..oowww!

I like this one.The 3800 and 3900 GE 4 axles really weren't for the main line's like the NS tried to run'em,but they were neat looking units.
They rode horrible,but I did manage to pull 169 loads of coal with a 3800 and a 3900 once.Didn't break any land speed records,but it did alright.

Great looking model.What did you use to make the 3800 ?

Atlas Beauty:

Collin:

The U33C started out as a Milwaukee Road from Williams. I cut off the short low hood and built up the sides with styrene. I then glued the short hood onto the styrene sides so that it would be flush with the top of the cab. Then I repainted it and used Microscale O scale decals for the lettering. I also had it converted to TMCC with Railsounds.

Neal Jeter

The real NS 2215 is now at Portsmouth,Ohio being used as the car shop yard jobs unit

Well I was going to post some photo's of my Diesel motive power but my portable hard drive crashed and I lost all my pictures so here some Real Southern motive power instead.

Southern GP30 at Spencer Shops

Southern GP49 parked at the backshop at Spencer

Southern FP-7A at Spencer,NC

Southern FP7 and Southern E8 on a passenger train at Spencer Shops

Southern FP7 and E8 leads a passenger train pass the roundhouse turntable.

Southern GP38's at the Charlotte Fuel Racks

Southern GP38-2 Up close.

hey sean! love those southern photos!!!..................rogerw.

The streamlined 1380 was made by Weaver in 1996. I had it converted to TMCC with Railsounds.



Neal Jeter

I did the same upgrade with my Ps-4 "Tennessean" Neal. I bought a second one from "Purple Papa" in Conway, S.C. but ended up selling it to SRR Sean

I'm planning to send my Ps-4 to Weaver and have TMCC,Turbo Smoke and Cruise Control installed soon.

Sean, why not upgrade to PS2? When I purchased my 1380 the dealer also had one that was upgraded to PS2 but promised to another customer. I have a few extra PS2 kits one of which is earmarked for this engine. MTH has a sound file albeit maybe slightly off in speed and sound but does reference the "Tennessean."

Ron

Ron,
I didn't know that MTH has a sound file for the Southern Ps-4 1380. Since MTH hasn't made this locomotive in O scale unless they're planning to release this enging in the near future.
I feel with the Locomotive being Weaver and Weaver doing the upgrade I shouldn't have any issuse. My only thing is the sound on MTH PS isn't as robust as the sounds from Railsounds.

Sean, as I said the speed and sound maybe off a little. The file is for a RK N&W "J" engine. Recall that Southern and N&W handed off the "Tennessean" to each other.

Ron

Ron,
Since I'm modeling and basing my motive power and passenger trains to the Southern Piedmont Division having the sound set for the Tennessean will not be that important to me. 1380 was placed in the general steam pool and spent the last few years running from Spencer to Washington, D.C and from Spencer to Greenville,SC. but thanks for the tip.

Hey Guys, of the three MTH steamers in our roster, the Southern PS4 has the best sound. Nice robust whistle. Mentions New Orleans in the PSA.
The others are the beautiful PRR T-1 which is 'lackluster' and the mighty Santa Fe Northern which has the absolute worst whistle I've ever heard - its a whimp!


The last few posts have been bereft of photos so here are couple more to brighten up the thread.


The handsome 2356 F3s and my painting of the same from the 1954 Lionel catalog

The announcer on the Lionel StationSounds diner for the Crescent Limited has a cajun accent.

Neal Jeter

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The announcer on the Lionel Railsounds diner for the Crescent Limited has a cajun accent.

I'd certainly like to hear that Neal! The true Cajun accent is quite interesting and melodic. I attended college in Lafayette, La and got to know quite a few of them. They are one of the nicest 'ethnic' groups you will meet! And talk about cook? Ya cher, dey know how to cook.
In fact there is a joke that asks "What is the difference between a zoo where YOU live and a zoo in south Louisiana?
The answer is that your zoo has a plaque on the cage with the common name of the occupant as well as the Latin name. Down dere its almost the same with the plaque listing the common and Latin names plus the addition of a recipe - a Cajun will cook anything! and it will taste great!

Here is our sleek Southern E6 'Tennessean' alongside her 'common' freight sister

Anybody have the MTH Southern SD-45? Sorry Dewey!

I guess I better charge-up my digital camera and take an up-to-date photo of my Southern Rwy. motive power display case. It doesn't hold everything, but has a variety of some 10 Southern locomotives (all MTH PS2).

hey sean! it's a good thing that you apologized, you know that dewey hates those "stinkin' diesels!!". i haven't purchased mth's southern sd-45 yet, but i plan to in the near future. i had to make a choice whether i would purchase either the sd-45 southern or the southern heritage sd70-ace. i chose the sd70-ace instead..............rogerw.

Sean:

I have them and they are nice engines.



Neal Jeter

here are some pictures of my southern sd-35 and gp-35 grain train..............rogerw

I was wrong.It's the 2415 in Portsmouth Yard

Awesome photos guys!!

I have a lionel southern diesel from a starter set.Nothing fancy about it at all.

Its like the William's brand.It runs and runs and runs with no problem.

And its really nice to look at.

Neal,
That SD45 is Awesome!!! Think I'm going to see if Little Choo Choo has one in stock.
Roger,
I have to come up and see your layout I've been dying to run some trains!