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Southern Railway Historical Association Photograph Collection: Kentucky

Accession P.2003.009

Provenance:

These records are on loan from the Southern Railway Historical Association.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes for a small fee.  Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Director of Library/Archives.

C. Pat Cates and Dick Hillman processed these photographs in 2005-2006.

Size: 1 cubic foot

Description: On August 15, 2003, representatives from the Southern Railway Historical Association and the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History signed an agreement to place the association’s archives in the museum.  Part of the massive collection of materials was photographs that had been taken from the 1930s to the 1990s.  Many of the photographs were official pictures taken by the Southern Railway for publicity and for the company magazine Ties.  These photographs were stored in a variety of containers and had been roughly organized into the various states that were served by the Southern Railway.  There was also a collection of negatives although many had been separated from the original photographs.  There is also evidence of a number of filing systems that had been used by the railroad to identify the photographs.  No information has been found relative to this filing system. In addition to the photographs of the Southern Railway there were a number of photographs from individuals that had been organized into binders with headings such as “Steam Locomotives”, “Diesel Locomotives”, “Depots” as well as under individual cities and states.  All the photographs of this collection have been removed from their original storage containers and placed in acid free envelopes.  The original documentation has been retained with the photographs as well as additional information when it has been found.  Every effort has been made to place the negative with the corresponding photograph.  Researchers should be aware that the negatives are larger than the traditional 35mm format.  A number of museum volunteers and staff have worked in the organization of this collection.

1. Louisville

• Southern Railway Offices and Freight Station 1957—three different photographs (27-10; 27-12; 27-14) includes negatives

• Produce Terminal—proof sheets and negatives

2. Ludlow

• Rail yard with depot at Ludlow October 1960 (color photograph)

• Steam and diesel locomotives at Ludlow Shops—two different photographs (35-34-B; 35-?-B)

• Depot at Ludlow

3. Miscellaneous Cities

• Miscellaneous negatives

• C N O & T P Diesel Locomotive No. 3074 with freight train at Danville June 12, 1968

• Maintenance of Way shed at Williamstown 1994—three different color photographs

• View of C N O & T P line—specific location not indicated (2459)

• Kentucky Utilities Company power plant near Versailles; includes negative

• C N O & T P tunnel (3-6) August 1963 Ties

• Improvements to line near King’s Mountain; August 1963 Ties

• Section gang at north end of King’s Mountain tunnel C N O & T P 1898

• Rear of unidentified freight train at King’s Mountain

4. Diesel Passenger

• “Ponce de Leon” at Erlanger May 15, 1966 (color photograph) March-April 1995 Ties

• “Royal Palm” at Erlanger 1967-68 (color photograph) March-April 1995 Ties

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4135 with “Royal Palm” at Lexington June 12, 1965; September-October 1993 Ties; Ron Flanary Collection

5. Diesel Freight

• Diesel Locomotive No. 3237 with Freight Train No. 187 at Wilmore February 23, 1986 (color photograph) Bill Schafer Collection

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4155 at Burnside

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4201 at King’s Mountain (38-27-C) includes negative

• Diesel Locomotive No. 3003 at King’s Mountain

• Diesel Locomotives No. 6801 and 4154 at Danville late 1940s (22-27-A)

• Diesel freight train at cut taken from Keno Road Bridge

• Diesel Locomotive No. 2560 at Winchester July 1965; Ron Flanary Collection

6. Depots

• Burnside—three negatives

• Passenger shelter Tateville—negative only

• Crescent Springs 1903

• C N O & T P depot Sadieville (color photograph)

• Lawrenceburg; Bill Schafer Collection

• Erlanger September 6, 1911  Note:  includes a number of later color and b/w photographs with negatives

• 
  Freight Station Salvisa 1916 (19-144)

• Lexington—multiple photographs and negatives from the 1920s to the 1990s

7. Cumberland River Bridge

• Steam locomotive—negative only

• Northbound “New Royal Palm” at Burnside (color negative)

• Steam Locomotive No. 6478 (CNO & TP No. 3) 1935;
  includes negative

• Old Cumberland River Bridge being demolished—three different
  photographs

• Old Cumberland River Bridge—five different photographs (482; No ID)

• Old Cumberland River Bridge with passenger train and new highway and railroad bridge in photograph

• Construction photographs of Cumberland River Bridge 1950—five different photographs

• Cumberland River Bridge with new highway and railroad bridge (2161)

• Diesel Locomotive No. 6100 and freight train on Old Cumberland River Bridge—two different photographs

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4137 and passenger train on Old Cumberland River Bridge (3-39) includes negative

• Northbound diesel freight crosses Cumberland River Bridge 1951; includes negative

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4138 and “New Royal Palm” (39-20-B) includes negatives

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4145 and “New Royal Palm” (2535)

• Northbound “New Royal Palm” showing rear view (39-34-B)

• Diesel Locomotive No. 4260 with freight train; includes negative

• Detector fences at approach to Cumberland River Bridge—two different photographs; includes negatives; January 1952 Ties

8. High Bridge

• September 1992 (color photograph)

• September 11, 1911

• Steam locomotive with “Royal Palm” 1940s

• Construction photographs—two different photographs; includes negative

• Steam locomotive and passenger train

• Steam locomotive and passenger train

• Diesel locomotives and freight train (2500); November 1951 Ties cover photograph

• Diesel locomotives and freight train—four different photographs; includes negatives

9. Events

• Steam locomotive wreck at Ludlow c1906—two different photographs

• Steam locomotive No. 6325 wreckage at Pine Knox December 1946

• Train wreckage east of Shelbyville

• Steam Locomotive No. 4602 wreckage

• “Best Friend of Charleston” at the Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Bridge as part of Monon Railroad’s Centennial Celebration August 1947 (1014)

• Agency work force on the day before consolidation of Southern Freight Station with that of Louisville & Nashville 1918; includes negative; July 1958 Ties

• Steam Locomotive No. 11 and excursion train from Stearns to “Magic Land of Oz” (26-14)