No, I did not mean that the Frisco ran to Minnesota, I meant this. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=310714&nseq=207 I didn't know that the Minnesota Transportation Museum had not one but two painted Frisco boxcars. I guess if it had not been raining when I was there I would have explored more outside. Its a good reason to go back. Steve
Couldn't help but look up the website to the museum and low and behold they have five 40' Frisco boxcars in various states of restoration. Probably the largest concentration of Frisco 40' footers anywhere. Glad to see there are a few surviving examples in such good shape considering how many the railroad had at one time. Wish they where a little closer to the Frisco home land so they could be admired! It would have been nice if a couple of the roads older wood sheathed cars had survived. Seems like I might recall seeing one still in existence out in Enid on a photo website, but I have never been able to find it again. Brad
Brad, The Railroad Museum of Oklahoma at Enid, OK, http://www.railroadmuseumofoklahoma.org/, has on display an example of one of Frisco's Howe truss outside boxcars. It is one of the steel side rebuilds and is numbered SLSF 163739. A couple of photographs of this car are available an the RR Picture Archives website. Please see http://rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=318644. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
Neat pics. This car is not far from the recently released HO Accurail #7203, wood door, metal end, o/b box. The Accurail frame is wrong (fish belly), the color is wrong (not red oxide), and it's numbered SLSF 34328. But otherwise, close. Ken
