This is your mission, should you choose to accept it

We are going to add a small block at the top of the page that will be seen by users who are not registered or are not logged in. Once you log in, you will not see it. This message will be designed to explain to (new) people where they are. Right not, if a Frisco guy shows up here, he will recognize the coonskin but we do have users join (other than spammers) that are not as familiar with the railroad as some of us but still want to join. Unfortunately, some people think the name of the site is, "All Aboard."

As part of this message, we need a very short description that will explain to a user what the Frisco is. In other words, boil down the history, geography, main facts, etc., about the Frisco into a three or four sentence explanation that can be read in 30 seconds to one minute.

I would like to see every interested member work up his own brief statement and submit it. Think of it this way, you meet someone on the street and he asks you to explain the Frisco Railroad to him in one minute or less.

It will be fun to read what people come up with.

But,

DON'T POST THEM HERE!
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Use the Contact Us link to submit your work and we will post many of them later. We don't want people feeding off each other. We want to see what each person comes up with.

We'll us a good one or combine a couple of them to come up with a brief statement that will serve this purpose.

Thanks,

Charlie

 

Re: This is you mission, should you choose to accept it

I've got some good ones so far! Keep them coming.

 

Re: This is you mission, should you choose to accept it

Okay folks, I received a good handful of submissions and I am glad to say that I used something from each and every one. So, if you submitted a statement you will see some of your words here.

I have worked this over quite a few times and what you see below is what I came up with using information from the submissions from you folks. This will now appear as a statement to people who are unregistered or not logged in. If you want to see what it looks like to people, log out and you will see it. Once you log in, it disappears.

The goal of this project is to let people know where they are on the Internet in one minute of reading. You could make the argument that people that want to be at this site will likely know what they are seeing, but even as a fallen flag guy that browses the sites of other fallen flags, I have been to some of them and not known at first what I am looking at.

This is still open to changes/edits, and so forth, but here is what I came up with:

Your opinions on this are apprecaited.

Charlie

 

Re: This is you mission, should you choose to accept it

There are some very minor changes I recommend in the interest of grammar and specificity. They are reflected in bold red:


Welcome to Frisco.org!

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (affectionately known as the “Frisco”) was a St. Louis-based railroad that operated in nine Midwest and southern states from 1876 to 1980.

The railroad stretched from Kansas City to Pensacola and St. Louis to Oklahoma City and Dallas, having some of the most iconic motive power, logos and slogans in the history of railroading. The Frisco was also renowned for excellent passenger service behind some of the best-looking steam locomotives ever built, and celebrated for fast freight hauling behind steam locomotives of its own design as well as diesels in the later era.

Born as a branch of the great Pacific Railroad project of the mid-19th Century, the Frisco became a separate entity that helped to feed the population of a growing nation, helped build its factories and ship those factories’ products, helped win two World Wars, and helped to carry Americans East and West, North and South in style and comfort. In the 104 years of its separate existence, it became a major corporation that provided the best service possible to its customers while treating its employees like a big family, never losing the homey touch enshrined in its Ozarks-inspired Coonskin logo.

Fiscal responsibility, pragmatic management, and a touch of whimsy combine to make the Frisco a road beloved by all its fans; the Frisco People, those who did business with the road and those who worked for the road, or at least wished they had.

The Frisco merged with, and was assimilated into, the Burlington Northern on November 21, 1980, but most of their lines are still in service today with the BNSF or various short lines. (deleted comma after BNSF)

It is with the greatest pride that we present Frisco.org; a non-commercial website dedicated to memory of Frisco people, operations, and equipment as well as to preserve the history of the railroad. This site allows users to share information and includes many individuals who keep the Frisco alive through model railroading.

 

Sure.... I pride myself on details but my eyesight is causing me to make more mistakes than ever.

 

Yes, another good correction! Thanks.

 

I have also changed

to:

in order not to repeat the word "behind."

Charlie

 

To make it easy for people to spot further corrections, the statement now reads:

 

You are saying "lead by" versus "behind"... I am not opposed to that. We'll continue to take comments on this whole thing for a bit and maybe make some more minor changes like that. Thank you Sherell.

Charlie

 

Let's do a little of both by making this change:

Obviously I meant "led by" and not "lead by." Lead is not good for you.