US 62 goes under this right near the Missouri state line, a few miles south of Seligman, MO. Is this Frisco? There’s a sign on it for some tourist railroad railroad that I couldn’t identify. What’s the story? This is very model worthy, these old narrow underpasses are being replaced every day.
Search for the Arkansas and Missouri (A&M) Railroad. Periodically, the Seligman Chamber of Commerce sets up rides from Seligman MO to Van Buren AR. Passed thru here many times. At different times my father ran a filling station on the east side of the road north, nothing but a slab now. My grandfather ran a filling station on the west side of the road north at the state line a little north of this bridge. I'll try to dig up a picture. Things have changed a lot.
Station is on the state line, west of Highway 37. My grandfather Opal Williams operated this station in the mid-late 70s. Tracks ran a few yards behind the station.
Pictures of a derailment of northbound Frisco train at Gateway Arkansas. Wheels jumped the tracks entering the curve turning north in Arkansas heading for the Missouri line, when they hit the switch at Gateway the cars hit the ground. Mid 1970s timeframe. The heavy equipment you see laying around is from the construction of Beaver Dam. Including a couple of tiny diesel locomotives. Wish I'd thought to photograph them. I took these as a teenager, under my great uncle's tutelage.
The boxcars appear to be those 40 foot mini "high cube" cars for appliance loading. Question concerning the derailment. Anyone have any ideas on where they would be heading?
April, The 40 foot hi-cube boxcars were going to/from Whirlpool at Fort Smith. Often such cars were in assigned service, as I recall. Because of their height, those cars had the ability to stack refrigerators two high and thus were very valuable to Whirlpool at the time. They allowed them to save on shipping costs. Andre
Did the Frisco have any 40' high cubes like those? If so I'd love to see a picture of them. I was thinking it would be a cool addition to a HO scale layout.
The Frisco did not have 40 foot high-cubes in dedicated Whirlpool service. Instead they had 50 footers with waffle sides. Tangent Scale Models makes a 40 foot car that appears to be a dead ringer for the Burlington car in the wreck photos. https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/product/cbq-chinese-red-11-67-ps-1-40′-mini-hy-cube/ Rich
Try this link April. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index....-side-october-1983-springfield-missouri.2954/
Besides the UP and CB&Q cars in those derailment pictures can anyone recall any other road names of 40' high cubes that ventured to the Whirlpool plant? Again to add realism to my future model layout. Those Tangent cars are pretty slick if a bit pricey.
