Rick Webb, C.E.O. and owner of Watco, has approved the donation of a Frisco 2-bay covered cement hopper number 84184 to the Heart of the Heartlands group for their railroad museum at Carona, Kansas. The car was built in November 1959 and is still painted in Frisco gray. It has the large Frisco billboard lettering in black intact on both sides and the numbers are still in the Frisco black script. The only change that has been made on the car is the reporting marks of SLSF have been overpainted with SKOL. The car has been used in cement service since built so is covered with cement dust, some of which has hardened. The car is currently in storage and will be moved to Carona by the railroad when convenient. It is rare to find a 50 year old Frisco car in this close to an as delivered state. The car will make a fine addition to the collection at Carona. John Chambers Heartlands Historian and Board Member Edit 1/21/2024: Museum address is 6769 Northwest 20th Street, Scammon, KS 66773. Their web site address is: https://www.heartlandstrainclub.org/ MKD
My congratulations, John, on the gift to the museum. I still look forward to my first visit - and some of that fine fried chicken from down the road.
I stopped through Carona Sunday on the way back from the Frisco Festival and got some photographs of the above mentioned car. Enjoy!