Re: SLSF 78909 - Coal Gondolas More SLSF coal gons. An interesting post card pic someone has posted on eBay. Ken Meteor910
Neat photo, Ken; thx for sharing. Are those KCFS&M reporting marks? Not too many photos I've seen of Yoakum's Frisco System with reporting marks other than the SL&SF.
Looks like KCFS&M to me - between the end markings and the markings above the side number, I think I can make out each letter. Ken
Coal mining in Crawford County, Kansas, showing the ends of several wood coal gondolas (St.L-S.F., A.T.S.F., M.P?,). (I particularly enjoy the guy riding the brake wheel). Larger photo and description at: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/display.php?item_id=448211&f=00699507 KansasMemory.org Kansas Historical Society.
The SLSF shipped reasonable amounts of coal and other heavy materials, but always in two bay hoppers, until later on when they got into the unit train coal movements, when they had several series of modern 100-ton multi-bay coal hoppers in use. Any ideas why they stuck with ACF and PS two-bays so long? K
Among my favorite pieces of rolling stock is my Westerfield Frisco wood coal gondola. Beautiful kit for us early era modelers. Thanks for posting the pic.
Frisco Meteor, please join frisco.org and share more of your great stuff. Very nice pictures above by all, (post more, more!). rjthomas909. Robert's picture above was labeled as 1910 ~ 1915. Ken'a picture of Frisco SLSF 78909 - Coal Gondolas showing the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad Company reporting mark on the Frisco gondola likely matches of the below history dates of the KCFS&M and the Frisco. Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad 1879 > became the 1888 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad 1888 reorganized as the > 1901 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway 1901, all tracks goes into operation by the Frisco. The Frisco buys off the remaining shares of KCFS&M stock by 1926 of the Kansas City to West Memphis , which had many branches. ............................................................................................... The above dates shown comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Missouri_railroads ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...y#Kansas_City,_Fort_Scott_and_Memphis_Railway , and are verified at the libraries of the State of Missouri Historical Society (@ Rolla and other locations) are 18 collections about the KCFS&M railroad. . example Collection (R0088) MICROFILM Collection 4 volumes of financial records of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad ("Memphis Route") and its corporate predecessors. It states that the line became part of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company in 1901. Frisco purchased the remaining financial stocks of the KCFS&M by 1926. ............................................................................................. Collections can be found at https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/rolla/ and https://shsmo.org/collections/manuscripts/rail ..