The September/October 2011 issue of The Cowcatcher magazine is out and available at many hobby shops in Frisco territory. The publisher/editor is Tim Blackwell. He co-authored Bobbye Hall´s biography in her book "Tracks from Texas to Tokyo". Anyone who knew Bobbye and visited Hall´s Hobby House in Dallas or owns a brass model of a Frisco locomotive or caboose imported under the Hallmark Models brand should have a copy of this book! Tim is looking for any rail related material, both model and prototypical, for inclusion in The Cowcatcher magazine. This is probably THE perfect place to submit any questions or information on post-Frisco operations over BN or BNSF former SL-SF trackage since The Rip Track was rejected by several members. I fully understand why they want to maintain a site devoted to the Frisco and the subsidiaries and cannot accept the outright slaughter of our Frisco! My suggestion for a Rip Track to have a place for the younger generation to post their views since they have grown up knowing only BN with perhaps a sampling of relettered Frisco power and equipment that still bore SL-SF reporting marks was, I thought, a good idea. The Cowcatcher covers rail news in most former Frisco territory south and southwest of St. Louis all the way to Texas. Any Frisco related news including new models in all scales and the BN years on into BNSF operations on former Frisco track can very possibly find a place between the covers of this excellent publication! Visit www.cowcatchermagazine.com and take a look. As a Texan, some "10,000 miles" from home, I welcome a regional publication devoted to "Back Home" railroading and even if you have a story or information on the Frisco in the "Southeast" I am sure Tim will even consider including it in the magazine as well. His desire is to increase the size of the magazine and territory it serves. All of you can help by supporting The Cowcatcher if only purchasing a copy or taking out a subscription. This is a perfect place to make Frisco.org known to many other railfans and perhaps inclusion of your layout and modeling skills as well. I am not trying to promote or underwrite The Cowcatcher, but it sure would be neat to see the Frisco.org masthead included in the ads in the pages reserved for such listings so wwe too can continue to grow and expand and tell railfans everywhere just what the Frisco was and what a great railroad it was. Joe Toth The Trinity River Bottoms Boomer
