I am currently working on a very LARGE project to restore and preserve the records, maps, photographs, and documents belonging to SLSF Railway. I am hoping that I can reach out to many of you for information about the SLSF and its many predessor railways up to the point of the merger with BNSF. I am also hoping to contribute to this web site in the future as I make progress through the photographs and documents.
Welcome aboard. You should be able to find a lot of help on this site. A lot of folks with knowledge in a lot of areas. Fire at will!
Welcome as well. As you search around this site, you may find all kinds of history, documents, and photos as well. Unlike a lot of other "historical" sites where a single physical repository is maintained and one has to pay $ to gain access to the files, the folks here are more than willing to share what they got. This site is an open repository for all to share.
I echo Frisco1522's and the others' comments. Welcome! - let us know what you need help on, and let us know what you are finding. The Frisco was a fine railroad with a great and interesting history. Ken
Angela, from the bottom of all of our hearts, Welcome Aboard! You will find that the fine people on our forum will provide nearly anything you need to assist you in your efforts and we look forward to any contributions in the way of images, scanned documents or just information that you may be able to make. We hope that by digitizing and posting images and documents, we can preserve the heritage of the Frisco. When documents and images get posted here, they become viral; a lot of us end up downloading these things to our own computers so they are even better protected than being in just one location. Track charts, maps, operational records, and purchase records are just a few examples of the things that help produce a complete picture of the ins and outs of forming, constructing and operating a railroad. We look forward to your contributions.
Angela, So glad you joined this forum, I hope you find your experience here very informative and also hope the group make your research and your job much easier. Welcome and thanks for joining us!!!!
The Railroad Historical Museum, Inc. in Springfield, MO has a wealth of information on the railroad industry, with most of it focusing on the former Frisco Ry and predecessor lines.. We are anxious to provide any information and assistance in this most needed endeavor. The BN-SF "ALL ABOARD" for January 2013 (or early 2013) may carry an article with pictures taken December 01, 2012 at our museum. The author plans to also include other interviews and pictures taken during a trip from Birmingham, AL to KC MO. We are all anxious to see the article and we welcome her back to Springfield.
Am I the only skeptic here? BN and BNSF have spent decades erasing any memory of the Frisco (And GN, NP, CB&Q, ATSF, SP&S) from the face of the earth. ????? Tom
That's why it is good that we are around, as well as the other RR's historical groups, to keep the memories, visions and details of these fallen flags alive and documented. Ken
You know, there is still folks around who worked for SLSF in 1980, prior to the merger on this site. Me for one. I can remember the talk, we want to call this the Frisco Region. Well that sounds good. We want to keep the logo of the Frisco alive. Yea ! I like that. Well maybe not!. Remember the life!. Remember the legend! Remember the FRISCO. William Jackson
Sometimes I get off topic. Prior to my employment in 1970, my grandfather used to take me to the Frisco Mens Club. It was my first experience with Trip XXX movies, well now days, yes it would still be XXX in B&W. I got to shoot craps, although I am not sure I won, drink my first beer and play cards. What would I give to be their again! Lots of overalls, blue jeans, tee shirts. No suits allowed. Only fun, laughs. No Republicans, Democrats, only Frisco Men. All was right with the world, smoke filled rooms, cigar smoke, you could hardly see. Dollars every where, beer, flicks. AHHH what the life for a fourteen year old. About 1965 in the life William Jackson
You know, we used to get in the old 54 Merc, and head up on Commercial St to Ace Rathbone Hardware to get some grass seed and a shovel. I don't know why, Grandpa got all his shovels from the Frisco. He always said we would go buy the root beer place. The Root Beer place was at the corner of Campbell and Commercial. I don't know why, but mine was always orange. O man the calendars, it was the first sign, I was a true art lover. Grandpa always drank one Root Beer and off we went home, we spent the rest of Saturday planting seed, raking the yard and burning the trash. Saturday night the sky was gray, everyone burned trash, the trash man come on Sunday morning.
