Tallulah Falls railroad

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The guy asked a question about the consist of a train that ran years ago. It suddenly turned into a political forum. Let’s see if we can anger more people. I have pix of Lackawanna Ferries that ran from NJ to NY. The boats are clearly labelled Men on one side, Women on the other side. Another form of segregation. I will be interested to see how people respond to this totally irrelevant fact of a time that is past. It is history people. You are free to ignore it if you wish. But don’t try to force the world to erase it because you don’t agree with it…

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I see no political statements in this topic.

Ed

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Jim Crow is a sensitive topic. The Tallulah Falls as a modeling subject is not. Frankly, nobody here has established whether the TF used cars that could be described as Jim Crow cars. There is no reason for offense as long as the difference is understood.

Tom

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Thank you for all the comments-I still need the plans!!!

Mike-another Dr Muff drawing,this time for a divided coach built for KCS by ACF in 1956,6 cars,32 and 28 seats,seperate bathrooms,divided by a glass partition.

This appeared in the late lamented (by me anyway) Jan. 2003 Mainline Modeler.

Steve

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A railroad museum has a divided car that they are restoring. They have a video tour of the car here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Vfv-1EX9M

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Have you checked out the Rabun County Historical Society? I didn’t see any plans, but they have quite a few pictures in their gallery. Scroll down on the home page, the links are on the right side.

http://www.rabunhistory.org/

Mike.

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There’s a link to the Tallulah Falls Railroad Museum:

http://tallulahfallsrailway.wixsite.com/tallulah-falls-rr.

I finally found it after remembering seeing it while checking out 70 tonners.

Another place to try is Abandoned Rails:

http://www.abandonedrails.com/Tallulah_Falls_Railroad

The Rail Georgia website:

http://www.railga.com/tallu.html

and there’s someone who is modelling the Tallulah Falls Railway:

http://tfrr.blogspot.com/

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Sorry, I have been away from the site for a couple weeks or I would have provided this sooner:

I’d like to get back to addressing the OP’s original request for information on this line and am very surprised that through all of this no one had mentioned the book:

The Tallulah Falls Railroad: A Photographic Remembrance by Brian A. Boyd (1998, Fern Creek Press, PO Box 1322, Clayton, GA 30525). Several small track maps are included.

While this small volume doesn’t have scale drawings of rolling stock, it would seem to be a highly valuable resource to anyone modeling the line. And… as I flip through the photos of this text I did not notice any obvious Jim Crow cars with the center baggage compartment.

Bill

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Gents,thank you all for the replies-sorry for my late one,life intervened!

I have the books and seen the websites which have provided a ton of info,but still no stock or track plans.

I live in hope…

Steve

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Steve, I don’t think you will find track plans, unless maybe you visit the area, museums, court houses, etc. and see what may be in print, or in archives that just isn’t on line. If you want to model it, I think all the info, websites, books, etc., etc., would be plenty of info for pieceing it together yourself, along with the modelers license aspect.

Car plans, probably never excisted. A coach and/or baggage car was probably just repurpased, and remodeled as needed. I do remember seeing some car plans on the many Google searches I did, while getting involved with your project, but they weren’t TFRR cars. The video that is a few post back, gives a good look, but again, it’s not a TFRR car.

Good luck STEVE, if you find anything, please share with us.

Mike