Ken's F-units shots from his Rolla days have me longing for B/Y covered wagons. Here's a grainy shot from an old 35mm negative that depicts 104 as it eases into Lockwood with 504(3?) on point. Note also the arched-roofed RPO (15'compartment)-baggage car that trails the locomotive
Nice slide. I didn't know the frisco used F7's on passenger trains. I thought they only used E's and FP7's. PS: got any shot's from iantha?
Too Bad it's grainy, Karl, I really like the photo setting, angle, and way it's centered in the frame. But, what the heck, it's a Frisco B/Y covered wagon!
Must have been an emergency and a day they didn't need steam heat for the train. I've also seen a photo of a short Frisco passenger train pulled by a b/y FA. Tom
Upon further review, that's 5040 (or fifty-forty something), an FP-7. Also only one air chime cluster over the engineer's head. Tom
At the time of the picture the FP-7 was perhaps 2-1/2 years old. Ethan, include steam generator equipped GP-7's amongthe Frisco units that pulled psgr trains. The Frisco also equipped the 5117, 5126-5139, 5140-5144 with steam and signal lines so that they could operate with steam generator-equipped units on psgr trains. I don't have any pics of Iantha. I spent a lot of summers in Lockwood, where my uncle and grandfather farmed. For a city boy, I could hold my own combining, baling hay, and shoveling manure.
Here's a picture, I believe by Arthur Johnson, of # 104 in the same era. This engine hasn't yet had its Mars or Gyra light installed. This photo was posted sometime earlier on this chat board. I also posted one of my photos of 104 at the Springfield depot from December 1953 with E-8 2016 and four cars, but I can't seen to get that photo to upload just now?? You can find that photo and a couple of others by typing: "trains 103 & 104" in the search box. Tom
I get it now, train 104 wasn't just a lockwood local, it ran from springfield to I guess FT. scott or KS city. I'll have to keep this in mind if I want to do something for my layout, say a frisco passenger train in the late 70's.
