Narrow gauge?

[Iantha_Branch]

Did frisco ever have any narrow gauge equipment? I was wondering because of that train in Silver Dollar City.

[TAG1014]

That was an "amusement park" train with no protoype heritage whatsoever. Some believe the Frisco made a donation to the park when the train ride was installed and the park likely named the train as a courtesy or a thank you.

[murphy millican]

All locomotives of the Silver Dollar line are 2-Foot gauge German imports. i got the story of the Frisco donation twice in my life. First from a conductor on the train. Second from a post somewhere on this very website. An item of intrest though is a standard guage MOPAC caboose put of the train tracks left in MOPAC colors. I dont remember the road # but it is in good shape and is in use as an actors cabin.
Ship it on the (Standard Gauge)Frisco!!!!



:)Murphy Millican

[tomd6]

During the administration of Benjamin F. Yoakum (1903-1913), the Frisco bought and built a number of properties in OK, AR and TX. One of the Texas properties was the 22.5 mile Rio Grande Railway,a narrow gauge railroad.(Source- Texas Almanac-1910) The Frisco never got around to re-gauging it. Many of the Texas properties , including what would later become the immensely valuable MOPAC Gulf Coast Lines,were spun off when the Frisco went into receivership in 1913.