Index to the Southern Railway Historical Association TIES Magazine 1/2 1991 $2.50 Magazine renamed TIES. Harold Hall obituary; Mr. Hall’s funeral train; Atlanta-Austell vintage photo section; breakfast on the Memphis Special ‘Southern News Bulletin’; Southern People at Work - Crane, Hall, McKinnon in Buena Vista. 3/4 1991 $2.50 Alexandria, Virginia overview; Golden Anniversary of Silver Trains - Southern’s First Streamliners, Part One; lamb chop luncheon on the Southerner, Southern People at Work - lady and waiter in dining car. 5/6 1991 $2.50 Franklin Mint offers Ps-4; kitbashing a Southern 55-ton offset-side hopper; Rome-Attalla branch photos and history; Alexandria annual meeting wrap-up; Southern People at Work - Sheffield’s winning baseball team, 1930 7/8 1991 $3.00 Golden Anniversary of Silver Trains, Part Tw o: all-streamliner issue. Description of passenger equipment w/consists, diagrams; description of E6 locomotives; Tennessean Tours the Volunteer State by Bob May, son of Mayor of Jonesboro 9/10 1991 $3.00 Rome-Attalla line anecdotes; Peavine Recollections - branch line operations in Marion, NC by Floyd Bruner; Golden Anniversary of Silver Trains, Part Three: Miss Myers and the Southerner, about Southern’s hostess program and the exhibition tour of the Southerner 4501 returns to excursion service in the Land of the Sky, June 1991; Switch Lube Rack - one-evening model 11/12 1991 $3.00 1992 Amtrak calendar features Crescent-, Historic Spencer Shops acquires Southern 2-8-0 #542; Story of rear- end collision that killed Samuel Spencer in 1906; Filming Fried Green Tomatoes at Juliette, Ga. with SRHA assistance; The Tuscumbia Railway - first railroad west of the Alleghenies; Technicians in R-1 test car. 1/2 1992 $3.00 Norfolk Southern Steam Program 25th Anniversary celebration in Chattanooga, Saga of Southern 11 7; 120 year old passenger car survives; Dinner, Tennessean style - a recreation of meat-and-potato streamliner dinner; Ed Griffin - Southern electrician 3/4 1992 $3.00 My Blue Ridge Heaven - photo story of trains between Old Fort and Coleman in the transition era, by Floyd Bruner; Asheville & Spartanburg, the Missing Link - constructing the Asheville Spartanburg main line over Saluda; Cherokee, Alabama - Down by the Depot, recollection of small town railroad activity on the west end of the Memphis Division in the late-thirties 5/6 1992 $3.00 Those Unique Dinette-Coaches - Hayne’s most intriguing rebuilds; train-watching at Weems, Alabama in the late-forties, a photo story by Frank Ardrey 7/8 1992 $3.00 To the Top O’Saluda - first public excursion up the famous hill in twenty years; Land of the Sky Rendezvous, what we did at our sixth annual meeting: Hayne Shop, Saluda Grade, Asheville Yard, Sawmill and Roundhouse; Trackside Dining at Hickory, NC and Juliette, GA (Whistle Stop Cafe); Tender Patriotism - when Southern 0-0 and 0-8-0 tenders urged us to “Buy War Bonds 9/10 1992 $3.00 The (Eventual) Dieselization of the interstate Railroad, with superb photos from the Interstate’s flies; How to paint an Atlas HO RS-3 into the colorful Interstate Railroad paint scheme; Fat,’Forty & Out of Shape - a weekend fireman tries to keep Southern 2-8-0 #630 hot on excursion trains in 1976; Spencer gets a Southern GP30 from Norfolk Southern, the only GP30 that’s been saved in the Southeast (so far). 11/12 1992 $3.00 Salisbury, NC’s depot: a Frank Milburn Masterpiece. A collection of articles describing the Southern’s decision to build a new station, Salisburians’ recollections, and the successful effort to save the historic structure. With told-out floor plan and other architectural details; Southern’s I 00- ton wood chip hoppers, a history, with photos and fold-out paint diagram; Growing up on the Old Norfolk Southern - boyhood memories in eastern North Carolina by Bill Sellers. 1/2 1993 $3.00 Southern’s mellifluous chime horns: early-fifties conversion from single to multiple horns on diesel locomotives. N&W Z-class Mallet operating on Appalachia Division - the very last pre- excursion steam run? Live steam I 1/2”-scale Ps -4 in Florida. Steam returns to Saluda with N&W 611 -powered excursion, October 25, 1992. Arnold McKinnon and Robert DeButts retire. 3/4 1993 $3.00 The ride according to Clyde Taylor - N&W roundhouse foreman remembers 2-6-6-2’s venture onto Southern rails. Engineer vs. Hobo: the first and only time Floyd Bruner attempted to hitch a ride on a Southern freight. Magic City Sampler vintage photos of Southern in Birmingham area by Frank Audrey. Tuscumbla, Courtland & Decatur Railway - Alabama’s pioneer railroad 5/6 1993 $3.00 Sara Purdie and Bob Claytor obituaries-. Cradle of Southern railroading: Horatio Allen builds the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road, Southern Railway’s earliest predecessor. Biographies of Ezra Miller and Horatio Allen. The pioneering 121273: Southern’s prototype all-door lumber car (drawing and photos). Southern Railway’s-long- abandoned Embreeville (TN) Branch) 7/8 1993 $3.00 Wrap-up of enjoyable annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. In the streets of Augusta: Southern’s main line still runs down Sixth Street in Augusta. With map, photos and history of Augusta & Summerville Railroad. ‘I never Thought the Time Would Come - Southern Railway tells its passenger train patrons to stay home in advertisements from World War 11 era. 9/10 1993 $3.00 Book Review: The Men And The Mills by Mildred Gwin Andrews-; relationship of textile mills to the rest of the South’s- commerce. In Memoriam - Lexington’s (KY) Last Depot, with floor plan, map, photos- Owen Anderson and the Interstate Railroad: welding Mallets, riveting hoppers and polishing brass. Recollections- of a man who began his career in 1920. 7/26/03 Index to the Southern Railway Historical Association TIES Magazine 11/12 1993 $3.00 Of Whizzers and Santa Fes: Ed King remembers chasing steam freights on a puny motorbike. Ken Tackett’s HO-scale model of Lexington, Kentucky depot; Superstition and numerology in the roundhouse: interesting locomotive numbers and the jinxes- that went with some of them. 1/2 1994 $3.50 ‘Whatever happened to ... Southern’s ACF lightweight coaches and dome 1613 (to ONS&L); Tennessean coach ‘Bristol;’ NS-31, a.k.a. Southern Research Car R-1 (to be retired). Trials and tribulations of Southern’s all-door cars - the production model. Southwestern Railway the one in Kentucky (or, whatever happened to the Burgin Branch?). And Clayton Harmon remembers his father’s career on the Murphy Branch. 3/4 1994 $3.50 All-Ps4 Issue (almost): The Harrison Engines - the Ps4 Pacifics, class- of 1926, delivered with twelve-wheel tenders and wearing Virginia Green. Where they were maintained, how their appearance evolved over the years. Also, Bill Purdie describes safety valve calibration. 5/6 1994 $3.50 Review of ‘Gandy Dancers’ video, by Prof. Barry Domfeld; ‘The Last Southern 0-6-0’ Morehead & North Fork #12 survives; ‘Those Woebegone Mini-Mallets’ - tales of Southern’s 2-6-8-Os on the Appalachia Division; fold- out map of Atlanta’s railroads circa 1934; ‘Coal Goes to War,” on painting Interstate hoppers with World War 11 message; Inman Yard retrospective. 7/8 1994 $3.50 Remembering Graham Claytor: obituary, chronology, farewell. ‘Adding Color to the NS Roster;’ Norfolk Southern paints a GP59 in Sylvan Green, to Ben Lee’s specifications. ‘The All-Day Train to Washington,’ Bob Grabarek’s recollection of riding Southern #36 in 1965. ‘Southern Railway: Wartime Lifeline,’ tells how Southern coped during World War II. 9/10 1994 $3.50 All-Meridian Issue (nearly): Book review of Southern Railroad Man: Conductor N. J. Bell’s Recollections of the Civil War Era; ‘Meridian - The Once and Future Crossroads-,’ by J. Parker Lamb traces the history of railroading in Meridian, Mississippi. A compilation of Meridian’s rail passenger service, 1870-1994. Also, Carl Ardrey’s report of flooding on the Georgia Division and a Graham Claytor remembrance by Robin Shavers. 11/12 1994 $3.50 Obituary for the Norfolk Southern steam program, with several photos of our favorite engines. ‘The Everyday K” by Dale Roberts and Ed King: Part 1, traces beginning of Southern’s K-class 2- 8-0s, and the conversion of most of them from slide valves to piston valves after superheating. Also articles on how steam locomotive power is measured and on the difference between slide and piston valves. Atlanta Annual Meeting wrap-up, with plenty of photos. 1/2 1995 $3.50 Meridian’s multi-modal transportation center; book review: Southern Railway Depots, Volume 2, by Ralph Ward; ‘Riding the Pervert,’ tales of the Purvis coal train; ‘The Everyday K , Part 2 - Spencer’s Ks. 3/4 1995 $3.50 Cincinnati Sampler; vintage photos and maps of Southern in Cincinnati area. FDR Rides the Southern, by Herbert Monroe - President Roosevelt’s trains; detailing E&C Shops’ HO-scale PS- I 50’ box car; ‘The Everyday K - Part 3: Coster’s Ks;’ We’d like you to meet Ed King. 5/6 1995 $3.50 Amtrak honors Graham Claytor by naming a Superliner sleeping car after him; The Can’t and Never Will - History of the Carolina &’North-Western Railway. 7/8 1995 $3.50 Queen City Meet wrap-up of Annual Meeting; ‘The Everyday K - Part 4: Asheville and Bristol Engines;” EMD’s SD40-2 on the Southern; Memories of 14th Street Tower in Birmingham, by Carl Ardrey. 9/10 1995 $3.50 ‘The Everyday K - Part 5: St. Louis Division Ks;’ the forgotten throttle - account of head-on collision near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky during World War 11; 6900 lives; Norfolk Southern restores ES for Historic Spencer Shops collection; building cheap 0-scale models of Southern’s low -side gondolas; we’d like you to meet Carl Ardrey.