I did look at the HPT&D but the sources I had didn't list it as SR affiliated. It showed up as connected to the Winston-Salem Southbound. Nonetheless it was a fun search.
The Blue Ridge Ry (Belton-Walhalla, S.C.) is one of the five.
The others are: Carolina & Northwestern Ry, Danville & Western Ry, Yadkin RR, and High Point Thomasville and Denton RR.
All five were listed on the same page in my 1945 Guide, and shared the top officials with the Southern Railway System. Each had its own treasurer and other officials whose positions made it desirable that they be local people. Some are still inexistence, at least in part, as part of the NS.
Did you sweat much during your research?
Johnny
I'm running out of resources. I come up with the Lockhart Railroad (South Carolina) and maybe the Blue Ridge Railway (S. Car, N Car and Tenn)
I just got in to Chicago.
No, neither one was listed in 1945.
One is entirely in S.C.; the other was in both S.C. and N.C.
Tallulah Falls Railway
Carolina and Tennesee Southern Railway
Deggesty Yes, it was Leaksville-Spray. It leaked and then sprayed? You now have three of the shortlines.
Yes, it was Leaksville-Spray. It leaked and then sprayed?
You now have three of the shortlines.
I am leaving on #6 Tuesday morning, and will not be able to respond until I am in Chicago Wednesday.
Not sure what the name was in 1945 - the line was built as the Danville and New River and seems to have become the Danville and Western.
The interim name for Eden seems to have been Leaksville Spray.
No--not on the Yadkin
Leaksville must have been on the Yadkin Railroad, which didn't become part of the Car&NW until 1951. I also give back the A&EC, which was also an early 1950s item.
I can add in the Belt Railway of Chattanooga, an AGS property. The Atlantic and Danville was also leased and operated by Southern in 1945.
I was working out of a 1960 OG and missed a fair number of ownership changes on the short lines.
Rob, you have the correct makeup of the Southern Railway System at the time. However, you named only one of the roads that was associated with tthe Southern at that time.
Leaksville was a part of the interim name, which was two-part, but it was not on the Carolina and Northwestern at that time.
DeggestyIn 1945, the Southern Railway System comprised five railway/railroads. Name them, stating which are railways and which are railroads.
Southern Railway
Cincinatti, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
DeggestyAlso, name five shortlines that shared the top officials of the Southern Railway System (some were railways and some were railroads).
Louisiana Southern Railway
Live Oak, Perry and Gulf Railroad
South Georgia Railway
Atlantic and East Carolina Railway
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
The only Eden I found in the Official Guides I have is Eden Alabama, on the Southern Ry. between Birmingham and Atlanta. It seems to be part of Pell City AL, having meged with Pell City and nearby Oak Ridge in 1956. Doesn't sound like the one you were looking for.
Eden NC, on the CR&N (Carolina and Northwestern) was formed by the consolidation of Leaksville, Spray and Draper. Is "Leaksville" the interim name?
RME Deggesty An atomic-powered switchstand lamp? That's what I think, too - krypton-85 being the original, and something involving tritium (which later became 'mainstream' for plenty of things like watches and gunsights) discussed as a follow-on experiment. We had a discussion about this somewhere, not too long ago it seems. UPDATE - he says Johnny's answer is right, but he can't get logged in yet to say it himself. So Degges, you're up.
Deggesty An atomic-powered switchstand lamp?
That's what I think, too - krypton-85 being the original, and something involving tritium (which later became 'mainstream' for plenty of things like watches and gunsights) discussed as a follow-on experiment. We had a discussion about this somewhere, not too long ago it seems.
UPDATE - he says Johnny's answer is right, but he can't get logged in yet to say it himself. So Degges, you're up.
In 1945, the Southern Railway System comprised five railway/railroads. Name them, stating which are railways and which are railroads. Also, name five shortlines that shared the top officials of the Southern Railway System (some were railways and some were railroads).
I have long been amused that when two adjacent towns on one of the shortlines merged the name adopted for the new town was a combination of the two names--and was later changed to "Eden." No credit--but what was the first name of the consolidation?
DeggestyAn atomic-powered switchstand lamp?
An atomic-powered switchstand lamp?
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narig01 It was the first idea that came to mind this morning. I kind of had to wonder about how practical it would have been.
“An atom-powered, steam turbine machine ... capable of crossing this country in thirty-six hours."
Turned out not even to be practical money-making science fiction...
BUT right about this time there was a practical use of atomic power for American railroad operations. What was it? (And what isotope did it involve?)
To jump in here with a hint while 'wizlish' can't log in: it does not involve something that moves very far.
Well I for one am sure curious about that answer.
No one answered this yet?
Or are people having the problems I had with the site last week not letting me in.
narig01It was the first idea that came to mind this morning. I kind of had to wonder about how practical it would have been.
Wizlish Borst's atomic locomotive - perhaps the best-documented of the locomotive proposals, but dependent on weapons-grade U-235 to run. Se 'To Peoria by Atom' for more details. The proposal with the large nuclear-electric battery was in my opinion a much better solution, despite its use of plutonium.
Borst's atomic locomotive - perhaps the best-documented of the locomotive proposals, but dependent on weapons-grade U-235 to run. Se 'To Peoria by Atom' for more details.
The proposal with the large nuclear-electric battery was in my opinion a much better solution, despite its use of plutonium.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-days-of-atomic-locomotives-in-america-1564623650
Wizlish your question again.
In the mid-1950s a professor at the University of Utah and his students in a Technology course had a great idea.
Regular locomotives had to make frequent stops to take on coal or oil. How much better would be a locomotive that could travel around the world twice without refueling? This thinking resulted in the xxx, a locomotive developed by the professor and his students—in collaboration with the Association of American Railroads and several industries, including GM, Commonwealth Edison, Trane, GE and Westinghouse.
What idea were they promoting? They have several patents for the idea.
You are correct on both counts.
The keystone is in an 'appropriate' red enamel. There is a good clear picture on the Web, and here it is:
Standard Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa. The emblem, and this a guess, a keystone.
This is what I found with a copy of an advertisement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Steel_Car_Company
This company built complete automobiles with the distinctive name and emblem.
As far as I know it never built complete automobiles, but the Budd Company's streamlined logo was on lots of carbodies built for automakers, including Dodge, Chrysler, Nash and the famous "longer, lower, wider" Hudson. Budd may not have invented unibody construction, but did a great deal to perfect it.
There was a Pullman automobile made in York PA, but not by the "real" Pullman Co. Osgood-Bradley of Worcester MA, also built carbodies but not complete vehicles.
We all know the locomotive builder that manufactured automobiles. What was the distinctive emblem used for automobiles built by a major railroad-car builder?
Exactly right! Classy little hogs, in my opinion! Yer next!
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