What Missouri industries (especially those with their own rolling stock) were the Frisco's biggest customers? In other words, for modeling purposes, what rolling stock other than Frisco's own, was most likely to be seen on the rails in Missouri? Charlie
Easy one close to the heart: Anheuser-Busch - Manufacturers Railway Photos of post-1996/BNSF equipment: http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/mrs-rip.4424/#post-30525 Other equipment photos are available through standard searches. Another would be the Missouri Public Service "Ready Kilowatt" coal cars. I know details of these are in the forum, but someone else can supply the link. George
For my own modeling purpose (N Scale) I have 3 of the 6 Manufacturers Railway boxcars offered by Red Caboose. I am looking for the other 3. I also have 3 Precision Masters Missouri Public Service hoppers too. That's all good stuff. Any other ideas (to include things not yet offered by model railroad manufacturers)?
The Missouri Farmers Association (MFA) was a major AG Co-Op that could be found in many Missouri communities. I am not certain, but MFA may have used leased covered hoppers that carried the MFA Shield. My memory may be faulty in that regard.
Well, I have been wondering about MFA. I have even looked for rolling stock using Google searches but have found nothing. I would have thought that they would have had hoppers like many other grain elevator/farm supply companies.
I believe Karl is right about MFA. a number of years ago, I bought some MFA covered hoppers from a hobby shop that had a large custom painting unit. That hobby shop is no longer in business. ( and they were based in California, soi don't know why the decided to do MFA cars ). Paul
Yeah, I was back to post that one. LOL. Wonder if there is anything else out there like that where we could get a better photo? Searching....
Search results for Missouri farmers association on rrpicturesrchives: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/srchThumbs.aspx?srch=Missouri+Farmers+Association&search=Search
They are headquartered here in Columbia. It appears that on the "Contact Us" link, one could send an inquiry to their P.R. department: http://www.mfa-inc.com/Home.aspx Best Regards,
I think I once saw a C&EI switch list for the "Chaffee Turn" that was returning a whole slough of IC hoppers to Southern Illinois; Karl, maybe it was something of yours? I'd assumed that the hoppers were originally filled with coal for the Sikeston, MO Municipal Power Plant. Best Regards,
The other day, I ran onto a bunch of new pencils, They say "Gold Bond" MFA Packing Div. It has a phone number on it: UN 9-5454. I had forgot the UN numbers William Jackson
Boy, you must be a real young pup! Back in the day (rotary dial phones) each city had a set of prefixes for each area of town. In KC, for example, if you lived north of th river you could have a SHerwood (SH=74) prefix, there was DElmar (DE=33), DRexel, etc. As the population rose, they added the next number. Eventually, they dropped the letter prefix and just used the numbers. Soooo, if'n ya run across some olde advertising, ya might see the old prefix names being used such as the UN 9-5454.
It seems rrpicturearchives is down at the moment. Seems like thats becoming more of a problem with them. Anyway, yes most communities in areas that have crop farming have either a MFA, Coop, Cargil, ADM or some other elevator. Most places in the ozarks probably wont have these do to lack of crop ground. The hoppers must be from a while back cause I have never seen one, but I have wondered about them having there own hoppers. Most of the time the one here in Lamar (which is no longer able to be switched from the ex Frisco main, only the ex Mopac main) its just a mix of random leased cars. Probably what every the UP will give MNA to use. Ethan EDIT PS: I didn't understand the UN thing either. Interesting fact. And yes I do know what a rotary dial phone is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names When I was growing up our telephone number began AT3-XXXX. When the exchange system went away, it became 283-XXXX. If you look in an old phone book, the numbers will all be listed that way.
