Garth, sorry for the late response, but I didn't see anyone else did. The color change occurred about 1958 - '59 for flat cars, gondolas and open hoppers. Frank Greene Canton, GA

I agree "medallion" connotes a physical object. Southern drawings for the "SR in a circle" are labeled "Monogram", except where it's painted on a metal disk bolted to the nose of a diesel electric. In

The following is FYI. Announcing Atlanta Railroads Prototype Modelers Meet September 19 through September 20, 2014 The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History 2829 Cherokee St., Kennesaw,

Correct about shipping kaolin in slurry on a large scale basis (Staggers Act deregulation allowed the RRs' freedom that made it economical). However, when were clays first shipped in slurry? In additi

You can take Southern off the table. Drawings in the SRHA collection show Southern Railway's 8-wheel wood cabooses were all double-sheathed designs. All sorts of designs - centered and offset cupola,

Central of Georgia 2441-2499 stretched by Transco 1965-'66. Reference: MSB Southern Railway color guide.

Some ran in revenue service into the 1960s. About 1958, Southern adapted some to haul welded rail in 30+ car sets (see the Southern Railway film series recently released by Green Frog, Set #2) and equ

BS started as the Tennessee Coal Iron & RR Co., until that company was bought by U. S. Steel, who changed the name. They were a sister company to TC&I's Fairfield, AL car building operation that sold

That's easy... 36" wheels were never "typical" on cabooses. 36" wheels were/are associated with passenger cars and 100+ ton capacity freight cars. Cabooses generally had trucks nominally rated for 40

Not if you're speaking of the P-S family tree. According to Ed Kaminski, "Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, 1900-1960" and Eric Neubauer, "Pullman-Standard Freight Car Production": 1917, US Steel appropr

Scanning through several Southern Railway ETTs from 1954-'58 did not identify any special instructions for roller bearing equipped cars. On roller bearing equipped boxcars and covered hoppers, Souther

The Southern bought 52' 6" gondolas from PS in the 1950s, but they were not PS-5s. The Southern's cars had 13 side posts vs 14 on ACL and L&N PS-5s. Each of the 3 had different side post length, width

Black; they started painting open cars brown about 1955-56.

Bill, Accurail's website shows the FGE car with a NEW -52 date and WFE with a JAX -60 reweigh date, both in the Optic style letters.

Cap, cup, bucket, quart, whatever... If it only looks green at a certain time of day, in a specific weather condition that almost assuredly can't be accurately replicated in an indoor model RR environ

It's a bad rendition of either the 1938 or 1945 versions of the monogram.

1958 And, Happy New Year to you and everyone else.

For your Need to ID a Model sheet: CG 5245, 50' XM = Speedwitch K107. SR 19049, 40' XM = Must be a typo, maybe 149049 = Sunshine 37.5 - 37.8, 37.14 - 37.21. SR 42055, 42092, 50' XAP, XML = P2k. SR 602

In the Birmingham District, the Frisco connected, via subsidiary Birmingham Belt RR to US Pipe & Foundry in North Birmingham and Alabama Cast Iron Pipe in Finley, and via CofG to McWane Cast Iron Pipe

No - Southern would be to the left of the door and the 60" "SR in a circle" monogram to the right of the door, and the Southern had no 50' single door cars until 1955. My guess is it's Southern Pacifi