Taken from the Frisco’s Station Accounting Procedure Manual, circa 1965.
From my collection: [ATTACH]
I best as I can determine, the Birmingham Terminal Company (BTC) was owned the Birmingham Terminal Station depot and controlled only the trackage,...
Standard Plans: Portable Building Portability Details... [ATTACH]
I am working on a HO-scale, wood pony truss with all the bolt-head details. I have purchased tie plates and angle bars suitable for code 55...
Frisco trains No 5 and No 6 led a fascinating life, but for the sake of time, I’ll begin this narrative on February 27, 1938. On that day, the...
Sometimes the best discoveries are the serendipitous ones. I was looking through the stack stuff in order to find a date and location of a...
There are those among us, who relish walks in the literal weeds or virtual weeds of long abandoned railroads. Roger Taylor has done a great job...
On August 8, 1905, the Frisco began a test project to determine whether or not crude oil could be used as a locomotive fuel. It began with the...
Here is a recent acquisition of Frisco 4-4-0 SLSF 158 with train number 8, The Southwest Limited, at Lyons, KS. The old Frisco diagrams and...
The price is right https://www.ebay.com/itm/354125975273?hash=item52738d8ee9:g:dV0AAOSwo3hitQXC
Rara Avis in Terris Nigroque Simillima Cygno - "A rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan." When World War Two ended during the first...
As one examines the railfan literature, which discusses the streamlined, 1015-Class engines and the Firefly (train), one will note discrepancies...
My father and grandfather always referred to the 2-10-0 1613-Class locomotives as Bolshevik’s. This brief article is an interesting item, which...
Richard Crabtree of the FB Group, Frisco Rails Across Missouri, posted this image of 4303 passing through the a CTC OS section at a location...
Several years ago, I acquired a large box, which contained the correspondence from members of Frisco leadership, chiefly B. F. Yoakum and A. J....
Richard Crabtree posted this image of Frisco 509, 4-4-0 American class locomotive. "Here we see Frisco No. 509 4-4-0 Eight Wheeler ~Posing with...
1350: rebuilt during 1943 from 1341 1351: rebuilt during 1943 from 1313 1352: rebuilt during 1944 from 1321 1353: rebuilt during 1944 from...
The Arkansas & Choctaw Ry Co. incorporated in Arkansas on August 31, 1895. On October 2, 1902, the name was changed to St Louis, San Fransisco...
This is a recent post card acquisition of the Frisco’s bridge over Williams Creek at Mt Vernon, MO. The structure is an unusual combination...
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