Questions

[jim]

Hello, James L. Branch here, spent a little over 32 1/2
years on the Frisco,BN,& BNSF. The ATSF mess everthing
up, by cutting off all the Clerks. There will never be
one like the FRISCO. Some of the places I have work
in Oklahoma are, Afton,Sapulpa,Beggs,Francis,Stroud,
Chandler,Oklahoma City,Tuttle, and Lawton. In Texas,
Fort Worth and Sherman,most of these were off the
Extra board.Regular jobs Fort Worth,Oklahoma City and
Lawton from 1966 until 1998.

[stephen]

James, it's been a while since you posted the note below (10/2/02), but I just found it. Is there any chance you have any photos or other information about the old Frisco depot in Sapulpa, from the days you worked there? Sapulpa is my home town, and I used to watch those great old Frisco trains down by the depot when I was a kid. Now I'd like to build a model of the depot for my layout, but need more information, since the thing has been torn down for many years. If you have anything I could use, or just a good story or two, email me at pastor@gardenhills.org. Thanks! Steve Diehl

[allen arthur]

Hello James -

Our paths must have crossed. I worked as a brakeman out of OKC from about Nov '68 until Aug '69, then again during wheat harvest of '70. I took the 444 to Tulsa and the 31 to Quannah, and all the through freight back and forth as well. In the summer of '69, I switched in Lawton while somebody was on vacation, and slept in the yard office, or the locker room attached. God, was it hot. I watched them lay the welded rail east and lost 4 co-workers in the wreck in the summer of '70, west of Altus. Do you remember any details of that wreck, I'm trying to write a little piece about it for a class.

- Allen Arthur

[Robleese]

Mr. Branch had an impressive deep voice, and you always knew it was him as he was waking you up on short rest to take another train out.
By the time I got to OKC we where left to operate on the worst track with the worst locomotives, and we still got the trains over the road and the switching done. He is right to say that there will never be one like the Frisco.