Passenger Paint Colors - Red And Gray Camouflage Passenger Service Roster 1948-1956 Does anyone know if there are still copies of this available? Alternatively, can anyone provide a list of the baggage-express cars that were painted in the "camouflage" red and silver paint scheme? Gordon
Gordon, Per Alan Schmitt's former Frisco Railroad Museum's 1991 roster of red and silver Frisco passenger equipment, following are the baggage-express cars indicated to have been repainted in the red and silver colors. SLSF 371 - July, 1955 - former Zephyr blue and white car. SLSF 430 - May, 1949 SLSF 431 - April, 1949 SLSF 432 - May, 1949 SLSF 436 - March, 1949 SLSF 437 - May, 1956 Plus the following baggage-mail cars are listed as well. SLSF 109 - July, 1955 SLSF 208 - December, 1954 Ken
Ken, Many thanks. It pretty much all makes sense. The Fall 1959 assignments show SLSF 430 and SLSF 432 as the St. Louis, MO-Fort Smith, AR baggage cars, SLSF 431 and SLSF 437 as the St. Louis-Oklahoma City storage mail cars, and SLSF 371 as a single baggage car operating an Oklahoma City-Lawton turn, all on the Meteor. That just leaves SLSF 436 which was assigned Kansas City-Memphis on the Sunnyland and the RPOs, neither of which appears to have had a regular assignment. Though I wonder if one or both might have operated on the Texas Special after the SLSF's lightweight RPO was wrecked. Interestingly, though, there were three other pairs of headend cars on the Meteor which did not have red and silver cars. The St. Louis-Ft Smith car was a red and silver one from the earliest days of the streamlined Meteor until 1/10/1960, after which there was never another one recorded. I do not know if that meant the thru car to St. Louis was discontinued, but I suspect so as there had always also been a Ft. Smith-Springfield sealed baggage car and after this date only one baggage car was in the consist. Gordon
