if you are ever out getting your kicks on route 66 - Stop in at Galena Ks and see SLSF1705 - unfortunatley painted in BN Green. They also has a Frisco inspection railcar & several other goodies there as well. And besides being a railroad museum, it is also a mining museum.
They have a Whitcomb 44T centercab diesel there as well! Brother to SLSF 3. What road was that locomotive from? According to Marre/Harper, SLSF 3 was sold off in 1962 to a paper company in Alabama. Ken
According to the folks at the museum, it was used at a plant near Pittsburg, KS, and was never a Frisco unit. Although, to be honest, it would look nice in black with yellow stripes................. Also in downtown Galena, there's an Alco switcher, late of the Erie Lackawanna RR and still wearing its early EL colors (an adaptation of the Erie colors used before they came out with the gray).
The 44 tonner is former Navy and was later used at the Spencer Chemical later Gulf Chemical plant north of Riverton, Kansas. The Alco also came from the Gulf plant. A friend of mine purchased them off of Gulf and gave the 44 tonner to the museum and the Alco to an individual in Galena who owned the property it currently sits on. The Alco has been parted out. The 44 tonner was painted Gulf orange and white when given to the museum, they painted it in the green and yellow to match the caboose. John Chambers
