No idea about the '40s and '50s, but in the '60s and '70s the Frisco received substantial reefer traffic off Union Pacific at Kansas City for...
Historically, Frisco and Rock Island were on good terms with each other as a result of corporate ties and a lack of overlapping routes (they even...
Ethan, Get a couple of Seaboard Coast Line units and a bunch of reefers and you'll be ready to run your own NWF/FSE in no time. Gabriel G.
Karl, Thanks for sharing. Seems my assumption about the Frisco-Southern Pacific agreement pertaining to Texas and not California traffic was...
I recently purchased a copy of Joseph A. Strapac's book Cotton Belt Locomotives and found an interesting detail on page 7: Prior to 1913, the...
Chris, That is correct. The Frisco went and purchased a block of Central of Georgia (CofG) stock in 1956-1957, then applied for permission to...
ncstl576, If I had to assume based on the routes of the run-through trains Frisco ran with SCL, I'm thinking ACL would handle Frisco traffic...
Hello ncstl576, Here's a table of the Frisco's interchange partners at Birmingham, circa. 1976. While not exactly what you're looking for, it...
Ethan, The reason I think MoPac and Southern Pacific interchanged more cars with Conrail at St. Louis than Frisco is because MoPac and Southern...
Ethan, What I'd really like to find is a document that shows how many carloads Conrail interchanged at St. Louis. I'm guessing Southern Pacific...
Update time! While not a merger as such, Frisco expressed interest in acquiring several Penn Central routes had the ailing giant been forced into...
Fred, I read somewhere that Frisco's 4-8-4 Northerns were copies of the Burlington's. No idea if that is true or not. Gabriel G.
Ethan, I don't have any secrets, really. :LOL: I get most of my stuff from movingthefreight.com, multimodalways.org and wx4.org, all of which...
Ethan, Moving the Freight has a long and detailed PDF about SCL's run-through operations with a variety of railroads, including both Frisco and...
Ethan, A quick search on rripicturearchives.net confirms that this photo was indeed taken in Portsmouth, Virginia. The structure seen in the...
Ethan, They do complement each other rather nicely, don't they? The only issue is that both Frisco and Rock Island were reliant on bridge...
Rob, I'm guessing this article was published shortly after Yoakum partnered up with the Reid-Moore Syndicate. It's interesting to look at a map...
Ethan, Union Pacific's GP30s were used extensively in pool service with a variety of railroads. These included Frisco, MoPac, CB&Q, C&NW, Rock...
Steve, Unfortunately, I have not. I sold off my airbrush and my model trains before I moved to Ohio and have yet to replace them. :( Gabriel G.
Ethan, If you want to custom paint your own Frisco diesels, Zero Paints manufactures a Chevy engine red paint that is color-matched to Testors...
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