Hello, Everyone! Would anyone happen to have a station book or employee timetables listing station, numbers and mileage, for the Southwestern Division, Oklahoma and Cherokee Subdivisions? Mike Condren’s Frisco Railroad Homepage (condrenrails.com/frisco.html) contains uploaded scans of the entire “Floorplans of Station Buildings” from the Office of the Architect in Saint Louis. I began manually transcribing some of the data from the PDF drawings into a Microsoft Access database for use as a crude index, possibly as a prelude to further work. When I sorted the database records, I noticed two anomalies in the data that appear on the original drawings. For Chelsea, OK, filename OK.Chelsea.pdf, attached, there is a notation near the upper right corner, in a hand that is different than that of the draftsman. DIV. SOUTHWESTERN SUB-DIV. CHEROKEE STA. NO. G 379 Likewise, for Bushyhead, OK, filename OK.Bushyhead.pdf, attached, there is a similar notation in the same handwriting, different than the draftsman. DIV. SOUTHWESTERN SUB-DIV. CHEROKEE STA. NO. G 585 These station numbers are out of sequence and cannot possibly be correct. If you ride the Frisco into Oklahoma from Northeast to Southwest, you encounter the stations in the following order: Vinita, G-360 White Oak, G-387 Chelsea, G-379 Bushyhead, G-585 Foyil, G-388 I suspect that the anonymous annotator was careless. They probably meant G-378 for White Oak, and G-385 for Bushyhead. Or I could be missing some profound and mysterious secret? Can anyone clear this up with official timetables or station directories? Ship it on the Frisco! Thanks
The defunct Frisco Museum sold copies of the station diagram books. I believe that one of the museum's operatives is the owner of the handwritten notation found on each of the diagrams. This web site has Southwestern Division Employee Timetables (ETTs). A search of the Frisco.org site will take you to them.
