Ken--A couple more blotters for your collection. A little tired and worn, but different ones than you posted. Tom
Ken--Here's one, not a blotter, but a ticket envelope with a design like one of your blotters. On the back, the amount of the ticket is written: $13.16! You can't do anything these days for $13.16! Can you even buy an HO boxcar for that? Note engine 2000 is shown as an E-8 (Instead of an E-7). Tom
Looking closely at the ticket envelope with 4 locomotives on it, the units appear to be closer to F7A's than E units. Notice the 2 axle Bloomberg trucks and the 2 portholes on the side with louvers in between. If you can look at the top of page 237 of Frisco Power by Joe Collias, you can see that this is a liberal interpretation of the photograph of F3's. Rich
That looks like the Athearn F-7 I once painted up in the "racehorse" scheme about 1961. I used gold (Christmas) scotch tape for the stripes and did the lettering with a speedball pen and gold ink. It wouldn't at all be confused with the hand painted O scale jobs going for about $3000 on eBay. Tom
Rich is quite right. I'd guess all they did was to take the earlier similar blotter artwork they did with the black & yellow F3's and do them up as passenger units. The F3 blotter is in my first blotter posting above. At least they moved up the forward porthole when they did them as racehorses! Tom, did you do that on your early Athearn ????? Ken
I had a "Frisco Racehorse" diesel before anybody else--It was a Athearn rubber band drive F-7 and it looked like a Cub Scout project! I also had an Athearn baggage, RPO and coach--My own little "Sunnyland." Tom
Here's a Meteor/Texas Special "Now in Service" blotter to go with Meteor Flash/Texas Special "Coming" blotter Tom posted earlier today. From these two, one can conclude the decision to name Frisco's new diesel powered lightweight premier train The Meteor rather than The Meteor Flash was made pretty late in the game. Ken
I picked these up about a year ago on eBay for not much ..... a perfect mint block of four Frisco Lines "Route This Shipment FFF" stamps. I guess the idea was to stick them on shipments. I have them framed on display on a book shelf in my office. Neat, huh? Ken
I believe that this blotter dates to about July 1946, when the Frisco, MKT, and the B&O inaugurated through coach and Pullman service to the Southwest on the Texas Special and the Meteor.
