Caboose SLSF 144 Please see Rogers earlier post at Springfield, MO in 1996 prior to the fire and re-sheathing. Photograph dated 5/2006. FM
Caboose MISS 630 Although lettered for the Mississippian (MISS) Railway, caboose MISS 630 obviously originated as a Frisco built caboose. Perhaps its Frisco number was SLSF 630 also. Date and location unknown, but presumably in Mississippi. Photograph by Fred C. Bradley. Edit 4/21/2024: Caboose was formerly SLSF 630. Photograph at the Mississippian Railroad yard at 935 South Main Street, Amory, MS 38821. Added confirmation of caboose origin, number and photograph location. MKD
Caboose SLSF 139 Pictured here is another view of Frisco built caboose SLSF 139. Photograph at the Frisco Railroad Museum at Springfield MO. Photograph dated in the spring of 1994. Photograph by Rich Lawler. Edit 4/21/2024: The former Frisco Museum was located at 534 East Commercial Street, Springfield, MO 65803-2925. Added former location street address. MKD
Caboose SLSF 398 Here are some images of Frisco caboose SLSF 398 taken at Valley Park, MO. A sign close by reads as follows "Nov 3, 1998. 1935 Frisco caboose Original caboose # 398. Originated in Valley Park, MO. Moved to Ameren U. E. Country Club in 1962. Donated back to the Parks and Recreation of the City of Valley Park on Nov. 3, 1998. "A piece of history made reality". Thank You, from: The City Of Valley Park and Parks and Recreation." Photographs dated August 20, 2006. Photographs by Rich Lawler. Edit 4/21/2024: Since these photographs were taken, the caboose siding has been replaced, repainted with a Frisco coonskin herald, reporting marks and number. The caboose is located in Frisco Park at 583 Beckett Memorial Drive, Valley Park, MO 63088. Added current status and location address. MKD
I took these images of caboose SLSF 375. Photographed at the Pensacola Yard, Pensacola, FL. Photographs dated July 1967.
I drove through Weaubleau, MO recently, and it appears that the fire-damaged SLSF caboose shown in the 1997 photograph above is no longer there.
Caboose SLSF 27 and SLSF 28 Here are scans of Harold K. Vollrath collection photographs from October 1948. Caboose SLSF 27 was caught in Enid, OK with the old Frisco Lines coonskin herald. Caboose SLSF 28 was in Winfield, KS sporting the newer Frisco coonskin herald. A friend in Annapolis, MD just found one of the old Hallmark Models HO-scale cars and sent me queries about these two cabooses. So I had scanned and e-mailed these photographs to him. He is Bob Madison who has appeared in Model Railroader (MR) recently with his nice L-shaped New York, New Haven and Hartford (NYNH&H) Railroad Ninigret Cove Branch. He just moved, so the layout is being redone. That is more that I have done in the 1-1/2 years since the move up here to Ann Arbor, MI. Carpeting goes down in the basement next week, so the new layout based roughly on the Gasconade River and Lebanon, MO I designed years ago should start in a few months. I have about 71 squares based on 27" curves. The layout was originally designed for Jeff Barkley of Australia. Jeff lost his precious wife Gwen in December 2006. Doug
Caboose SLSF 103 I was wondering if anyone had any photographs of Frisco caboose SLSF 103 that is in Eureka Springs, AR. I read about it in the Southwest Times Records, Sunday 2/25/2006, newspaper. All it shows is the interior and entrance leading to the car.
Caboose SLSF 144 Old caboose SLSF 144. Outside a bulk oil dealer in Springfield, MO. Now gone. Edit 4/21/2024: The caboose was located at 500 North National Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802. Caboose was sold and removed to Ozark Mountain Railcar, Kirbyville, MO 65679. Added former location street address and last known location. MKD
Caboose SLSF 45 Photographed at Kansas City, MO. Photograph dated November 1966. Edit 2/21/2024: Note the assigned terminal lettering above the side window "KC Terminal". Photographed in the West Bottoms at 19th Street Yard. View looking west northwest. Added assigned terminal notation. MKD
Caboose SLSF 234 Photographed in Kansas City, MO Photograph dated February 1967. Caboose SLSF 235 Photographed in Kansas City, MO. Photograph dated February 1967. Edit 4/21/2024: Photographs were both taken at the caboose track, 19th Street Yard, 1900 Allen Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64108. Photographs looking west northwest. Added photograph location detail and address. MKD
Caboose SLSF 116 Photographed at Kansas City, MO. Photograph dated September 1966. Edit 4/21/2024: Photograph taken at the caboose track, 19th Street Yard, 1900 Allen Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64108. Photograph looking west southwest. Added photograph location detail and address. MKD
Caboose SLSF 45 Now that looks like a fun one to model. Anyone know a build date, know its background or have a drawing? I will go out on a limb and guess that it is homebuilt.
Caboose SLSF 121, SLSF 239 and others. Gaggle of cabooses at Kansas City, MO. Photograph dated late 1966 or early 1967. Edit 4/21/2024: Photographs were both taken at the caboose track, 19th Street Yard, 1900 Allen Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64108. Photograph looking west northwest. Added photograph location detail and address. MKD
Caboose SLSF 239 Thought you all would like to know that caboose SLSF 239 should be available from Overland Models in their next run of International Car Company cabooses. http://overlandmodels.com/showroom.php?scale=4 Frisco Faster Freight! Rick Edit 4/21/2024: The caboose was in an announcement from Overland Models, but unfortunately the announced production run was not produced. Updated the status of the Overland Models announcement. MKD
Caboose SLSF 239 Rick, Well doggies. That is a nice photograph, and makes you a celebrity. Should be a very nice model. I am in the presence of Greatness.
Hi, I have a dumb question. What numbers did Frisco cabooses have when steam engines were still king on the line? Did they share numbers with the engines? Or, did they have totally different higher numbers? I would like to know for modeling an older caboose on my layout. Ship it on the Frisco! Murphy Millican
