What's New On Southern Railfan?

1/20/06

• Major update to the photo archive section, 342 images have been added. The archives now contain 2675 images
• Caboose - 8
• Diesel - 102
• Freight - 10
• MOW - 14
• Passenger - 29
• Steam - 179

2/24/05

• This is the largest update in 8 years of Southern Railfan
• Large amount of scanned Southern Railway Documents (almost 400Mb)
  • Southern Railway Predecessor Rosters - 74 companies
  • Mileage Operating Divisions 1906
  • 1912 List of Stations & Sidings
  • 1921 System Map
  • Passenger Station Floor plans
  • Freight Train Schedules Between Principal Points Feb. 1928
  • Freight Train Schedules and Blocking Instructions Feb. 1979
  • Freight Car Assignments October 1979
  • Steam Locomotive Diagrams 1914
  • Employee Time Tables - 43 of them, 1925 - 1973
  • ICC Valuation Reports June 30, 1918
  • Items Required on Steam Locomotives August 15, 1938
  • Federal Diesel Inspection Records Greenville Dec. 4, 1950
  • Rental of Locomotives 1925
  • Weight Limits of Engines and Cars and Maximum Clearances Jan. 1, 1920
  • Piedmont District Load Limits Jan. 1, 1928
  • Textile Directory - 1924
  • Weight Limits Of Engines and Maximum Clearances - October, 1920
  • List Of Freight Passenger & Work Equipment - November, 1951
  • List Of Drawings Of Boilers & General Elevations
  • Assignment of Engines Charlotte Div South End - 1942
  • Passenger and Business Car Diagrams
  • Derrick Diagrams April, 1921
  • List and Description of Locomotives 1910
  • List and Description of Locomotives 1926
  • List and Description of Locomotives 1929
  • List and Description of Locomotives 1943
  • Southern Railway Narrow Gauge Locomotives
  • Valve Gear Applied By Locomotive Number
  • Track Profiles and Rail Data
  • Augusta, GA Industrial District
  • Columbia, SC Industrial District
  • Passenger Equipment Diagrams
• 330 images have been added. The archives now contain 2333 images
• Caboose - 10
• Diesel - 112
• Freight - 122
• MOW - 32
• Passenger - 4
• Steam - 59
• Two issues of Southern News (March 1922 and March 1923). Southern News was the employee magazine before Ties

7/27/04

• Major update to the photo archive section, 457 images have been added. The archives now contain 1994 images
• Caboose - 7
• Diesel - 156
• Freight - 151
• MOW - 23
• Passenger - 3
• Steam - 117
• Two issues of Southern News (March 1922 and March 1923). Southern News was the employee magazine before Ties

7/27/03

• Added 81 issues of Ties - from 1948 to 1982 - Need only 29 more to complete all issues

7/7/02

• Added 153 issues of Ties - from 1948 to 1982 - more to come

10/13/01

• Major update to the photo archive section, 71 images have been added. The archives now contain 1082 images

3/31/01

• Major update to the photo archive section, 191 images have been added. The archives now contain 1011 images
• Included are 143 steam, 14 diesel, 32 freight, 8 caboose, and 4 mow.
• Southern has the right freight car for you - 46 pages
• 66 pages of steam locomotive diagrams
• 48 issues of Ties - from 1961 to 1982 - more to come

11/1/99

• Major update to the photo archive section, now 820 images

9/11/98

• Added three new Southern products
• Added three Southern related articles

9/10/98

• Updated the links page, removed dead links
• Updated the products page
• Updated the articles page

9/7/98

• Added 3 more articles to the Prototype pages
• One of the articles is a 16 page brochure on "The Southern Crescent - A History of Good Service"
• Checked all of the pictues in the archives
• Added two more pictures to the archives

8/24/98

• New Color Scheme - black and gold, and frame based layout
• Added a section on Prototype articles (10) and pictures take from NS World and Ties that are in my collection
• Added copyright information to some of the pictures that are in the archives
• Added for pictues to the archives

7/10/98

• Uploaded 146 photos of Southern diesels archived from A.B.P.R, and various web sites

7/1/98

• Started moving files to Railfan.net from the Track Gang pages

• Placed drawings and a link to the Cadrail file of SRR 992550 Scale Test Car on the Projects page.
• Fixed a bad link to a Cadrail file on the projects page

04/25/98

• Fixed multiple errors in the Southern Railway Family Tree of mergers and acquisitions
• Fixed an error in the 1982 Locomotive Roster

03/26/98

• Updated the projects page, to include two new projects

03/22/98

• Added one new "old" Southern Railway reference books.

03/3/98

• Added equipment owned by The Old Dominion Railroad Museum, in Richmond, VA, and a private car in Houston to the preserved equipment pages. Still missing some equipment at Spencer, and Savannah.
• Added two new "old" Southern Railway reference books.
• Updated the Southern RY links page added two new links.

02/35/98

• Updated the Southern RY links page.

02/9/98

• The beginnings of a Southern MoW equipment roster.
• Raised up the links for the Modeling information up to the main page.
• Removed two dead links from the links page.

02/6/98

• New set of pages that list Southern equipment preserved in museums. Still missing some equipment at Spencer, and Savannah.
• Raised some of the links up one level from the Southern History page.
• Updated the links page.

01/25/98

• MoW equipment is now listed by equipment type also.

01/17/98

• Included as part of this update, is a family tree of the Southern Railway, and other Southern related information. The area for the Southern modeler has also been updated, with the latest magazine articles, HO scale products, and decal information.