From Richard Crabtree on Frisco Rails Across Missouri: Herr we are at the Frisco North Shops in Springfield, Missouri located north of Commercial Street and East of Washington Avenue. The yard were establish when the Southwest Branch of Atlantic & Pacific R.R. ~ aka Frisco came to town 150 years ago this year in 1870. The shops grew and grew and were kept even after the new West Frisco Shops were built in 1909. By 1950 the writing was on the wall that they were no longer going to be needed due to dieselization of the Frisco Lines. In 1959/60 after making it to it's 90th year of service, the Frisco North Shops were no more. It is now the home of BSB Railroad Ties Click here for overhead view https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2249985,-93.2814149,946a,35y,39.1t/data=!3m1!1e3 Photo 1) The Frisco North Shops around 1960 ~ you can see the outlines of the buildings and roundhouse Photo 2) The Frisco North Shops around 1905 Photo 3) The extent of the Frisco North Shops in 1910 - MU Digital collection Photo 4) 1938 overhead view of the Frisco North Shops and yards in their heyday. MSU Digital Collection
From Richard Crabtree on Frisco Rails Across Missouri: If walls could talk ~ but unfortunately these walls all gone. We are at the Frisco North Shops and Yards in Springfield, Missouri. Here we can see what life was like for a machinist - boilermaker - etc... around 1900s. Photo 1) A row of Frisco Locomotives being rebuilt Photo 2) The Machine Shop Photo 3) The Air Brake Shop
From Richard Crabtree on Frisco Rails Across Missouri: The boys at the Frisco North Shops in Springfield, MO were always cooking up something. Here is their homemade steam powered Inspection car Circa 1910.
From Richard Crabtree on Frisco Rails Across Missouri: Here we are in the Frisco North Shops & Yards in Springfield, MO, just north of Commercial Street. We are in-between the Roundhouse and the Coaling Tower and boys are getting ready for a long day of work! Circa 1910.
For a later view of the North Shops. From Arthur Johnson in 1948 View looking west. http://frisco.org/mainline/wp-conte...ouri-on-June-5-1948-Arthur-B.-Johnson-BLW.jpg
Yep. Chaffee had a 2-foot gauge turntable too. An old Trains magazine had a picture of one of the cars
From Richard Crabtree on Frisco Rails Across Missouri: Here is a great photo with a lot of history. We are at the Frisco North Shops and Yards off of Historic C-Street (Commercial Street) in Springfield, Missouri. We are at the Frisco Roundhouse that has been servicing locomotives since the 1870s. Some 80 years later a new kid is on the block. Here we see Frisco No. 5030 EMD F7A built in 1950, Frisco No. 4524 4-8-4 Northern built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1943, Frisco No. 4400 Frisco 4-8-2 Heavy Mountain Class built in the Frisco Springfield West Shops in 1939 & finally Frisco No. 986 2-8-0 Consolidation built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1906. Photo taken sometime in 1950-51.
