show your Norfolk Southern RR and related railroads.....NS, Southern RR, N&W,
Virginian RR , etc. ......and others related to the N S. show your " heritage engines"
and rolling stock......thanks.
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How about Southern Pacific?
No. 1401, the sole surviving Ps-4, in the Smithsonian
MTH Premier model (20-3006-1; 1994)
oops....sorry 'bout that....
I'll play:
Rusty
Me to, but only some G scale Southern. O gauge way to many boring pictures.
Love some new Souther threads.
ET & WNC engine # 14
et & wnc engine 11
Good old Tweetsie
This is ET & WNC engine#12 not out of box yet.
Some Tuxedos.
Didn't see this thread earlier so here is our SR E6 No.2800 dressed in her Tuxedo scheme. This was a Lionel Burlington 'E5' that I had painted some years ago. Have acquired a second CB&Q A unit that I'd like to have done up as the companion engine - looking for a custom painter.
Here's some Seaboard steam:
SAL diesel:
Some Coast Line steam:
Some N&W steam:
N&W diesel:
There's others, but you get the idea. All engines shown (except the Weaver RS3 and Williams E7) have been gutted and now run off battery, using the Deltang-based Tx and Rx. the RS3 and E7 run off battery and the BlueRail bluetooth/wifi board.
The steamers are all Williams brass, except the 4-6-0 in the background of the 1st photo, that's a Weaver brass chassis on a homebuilt boiler shell.
A few lined up on my old layout.
Everything I have on my layout is Southern-area, all ET&WNC narrow gauge...
ET&WNC later got two RS-3s in exchange for what is now known as 630 and 722. I never saw them running but did see them in the scrapyard before one was cut up and the other donated to TVRM in Chattanooga.
For years, they had full SRR paint with the white stripe but I couldn't find online pics of either like that. This is how I saw them before they were gone. I'd painted a Kato HO scale one exactly like 209 here, but sold it years ago when I left HO forever.
I don't do 3-rail, but if I did, I'd for sure model one of these:
some southern dis comfort......oops...
nmp's....
GP30 2594 -
Tenn Valley Railroad Museum:
In my "railroad museum", repair shop, RR custom rod shop, sometimes graveyard, supposed layout. (Please ignore the in-progress Wbb GM&O FA ERR project in the background.)
Lionel, snapshot from last year or so. Got to lower those horns.
D500 posted:GP30 2594 -
Tenn Valley Railroad Museum:
Didn't realize that there was another active Southern GP30 around, neat.
The two Southern GP30s Lionel released have the road numbers 2594 and 2601. The 2601 is at the NCTM in Spencer, NC and the 2594 is at the TVRM in Chattanooga.
Neal Jeter
Thanks for all the photos guys, quite a display.
Rusty Traque posted:I'll play:
Rusty
Are those F3s custom painted?
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
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.
briansilvermustang posted:
Is that the Tennessean?
Jim
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
briansilvermustang posted: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.
Yep, sure looks like it. Thanks!
RideTheRails posted: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
Hi Steve, I got to talk to one of the engineers that drove the Best Friend. In 2000 became the Quality Manager for a hose manufacturer near Spencer, NC. Along with manufacturing sanding hoses we made air brake hose assemblies. Anyway for some reason related to the test procedures needed to talk with the feds on the testing procedure
Agencies' rep called me back. After discussing and OK-ing to procedure he started asking question about the Spencer area including "Steve's" BBQ. Naturally had to ask how he knew so much of the area. That is when he told me he use to drive the "Best Friend" and was the driver when last in Spencer at the NCTM (former Spencer Southern Shops).
Sure wish I was around here then.
Ron
Sweet.....
Some shots I got of 4501 a couple of years ago, riding from Chattanooga to Summerville, GA. I hadn't seen 4501 in steam before this since I was 4 years old!
Earlier that day I got up really early at TVRM's depot to get this shot. There was nobody there but me, the museum people/crew and one other photographer (we respected each other's space very well):
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