Don't thank me for making the NC&StL boxcar the convention car. I recommended it but found out a decision had been made prior to my getting involved. Thanks go to Dave Blum and others in the NASG. I wish I could name exactly who they are. I simply applaud their choice. I had forgotten all about obtaining a consist with those former CGW lounge cars. Did I do that? Well I have spent quite a bit of time trying to find consists of various Southern trains, especially The Tennessean. I still have several unanswered questions about The Tennessean. The only Southern train that I got to know first-hand was the Southern Crescent of the 1970s. I know quite a bit about it. As for the China comment you made, I think you intended to say that the AM boxcar was the only one that is NOT tied to China. I rode The Tennessean from Memphis to Knoxville twice as a young child with my mother. I remember both trips but do not remember anything about the train itself. We had arrived in Memphis on the IC from western Kentucky. I was enamored by the IC. My first trip was by steam from Mayfield to Memphis. A year later we rode the City of New Orleans from Fulton to Memphis. I know I was under the age of 5 on both tiips. By the time we got ready to board a Pullman on The Tennessean, I must have been half asleep. Though I remember getting on the trains in Memphis, I remember absolutely nothing about getting off the trains in Knoxville. I wish I could relive that experience. I wish I had seen Southern's PAs. Unfortunately, I never saw any PAs anywhere, and only saw FAs once on the Tennessee Central. (I have decals ordered for doing an American Models FA-FB set.). - Earl Henry In a message dated 4/13/2012 2:56:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
____________________________________ Earl, Thanks for the speedy reply. Well, I definitely agree that the car looks great in that paint scheme, and it is the only car you could come up with in the current context of the S-scale market that is tied to China. So I appreciate your efforts in shepherding this car through the required procedures. By the way, thank you for checking on the consist of Southern Railway's "Tennessean" when it had that CGW Pullman club lounge and operated for a few months on the SR in CGW livery. Too bad no one can recall seeing the train that way or photographing the car which had to stand out in contrast to silver streamlined coaches and Pullmans of the train. I believe the "Tennessean" also had the Southern ALCO PA-3
