Southern Railway SW7 #1107, with its bell removed and its stacks covered,

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Robert Farkas	General	I want to write "Goodbye old friend" on this locomotive.	1/28/2012 3:41:09 PM

Charles Stookey	General	H after the number letters under the number?	1/28/2012 9:24:43 PM

Mike Woodruff	General	One of a handful of early "Phase I" SW7s which, except for the full height radiator opening at the front, look like late NW2s.	1/28/2012 9:40:21 PM

Charles Burgess	General	Sad sight but great picture!	1/29/2012 2:02:37 AM

Bryan Smith	General	The "H" after the number was referred to as the alpha digit. My understanding is it was a means of verifying the locomotive number. On the Southern if you were a clerk and you were entering locomotive numbers onto a computer generated consist you had to include the alpha digit. Using this locomotive, if you entered SOU 1107F instead of the correct "H",the computer would not take it and you would have to verify the number so as to get the correct number.	1/30/2012 8:29:39 PM

Southern Railway SW7 #1107, with its bell removed and its stacks covered,
Southern Railway SW7 #1107 was built February 1950 and delivered as #6065, later to become #1107
Date: 10/2/1983	Location: Irondale, AL	Views: 998	Collection Of: Bernie Feltman
Locomotives: SOU 1107(SW7)			Author: Bernie Feltman

Picture Categories: Roster		This picture is part of album: Southern Railway Alabama roster/still shots

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