4-8-4 SLSF 4508

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  1. don

    don Guest

    4-8-4 SLSF 4508

    4-8-4 SLSF 4508

    New locomotive with a westbound freight train on the Lebanon Subdivision near Dixon, MO, MP 134.6.

    Note the hillside bluff on the north, left side of the image, and downhill to the south, right side, the Meramec River.

    Frisco company negative.
     

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  2. frisco1522

    frisco1522 Staff Member Staff Member

    I was looking at the old photograph I had posted and it looks awfully dark, so here is a reworked one.
     
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  3. METEORman

    METEORman New Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Nice photograph!

    Having not asked the guys I am working with yet, do you know how many of the 4500s were equipped with the C-2 boosters?
     
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  4. Karl

    Karl 2008 Engineer of the Year Frisco.org Supporter

    Don,

    I wonder what the occasion was.

    There is a "suit" standing next to one of the telegraph poles.

    There is a lot of military equipment on those flats as well.

    KEB
     
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  5. frisco1522

    frisco1522 Staff Member Staff Member

    The Frisco eventually had boosters on all 25 engines.

    The first 15 were delivered without, but the last ten had them from Baldwin.

    The railroad installed them on the first series.
     
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  6. Brad Slone

    Brad Slone Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Karl,

    I cannot say for certain, but consider that the 4-8-4 SLSF 4508 still has its original paint and it looks like the hill realignment is brand new.

    I would guess that this is a construction train moving contractors equipment off the job.

    Maybe even moving equipment from the Dixon Hill project west to start on the Handcock Hill project that was started once the east side was completed.

    Just one possibility.

    Brad
     
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  7. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    Anyone ever see a photograph of 4-8-4 SLSF 4508?

    Kind of a rare bird.

    I cannot recall ever seeing any pictures of it.

    Tom G.
     
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  8. yardmaster

    yardmaster Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

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  9. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    I will try to accommodate you later in the week.

    Charlie
     
  10. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    Maybe that engine was wrecked at some point.

    Tom G.
     
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  11. Sirfoldalot (Sherrel Weems RIP 8/29/2024)

    Sirfoldalot (Sherrel Weems RIP 8/29/2024) Frisco.org Supporter Frisco.org Supporter

    Think that is bad?

    Try finding anything on 2009!
     
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  12. meteor910

    meteor910 2009 Engineer of the Year Staff Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Sherrel ,

    Assuming you are referring to E8A SLSF 2009, Jet Pilot.

    There are quite a few pictures kicking around. I know Mike Condren has at least one in his collection, I have at least one each from Lou Marre and Art Johnson, and several more exist.

    Plus, somebody had a close up of E8A SLSF 2009 posted on eBay some time ago. See the attached picture from that listing.

    Somehow I think I know why SLSF 2009 is your favorite E-unit!

    Ken
     

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  13. gbmott

    gbmott Member

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    Here it is in July of 1948 looking pretty fine in Tulsa, OK

    One of few with a coonskin number plate.

    J. L. Hoffman photograph.

    Gordon
     

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  14. yardmaster

    yardmaster Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    Nice photograph Gordon.

    Never really thought of why the rectangular number plates were predominant on the 4-8-4 Northerns.

    Thanks for sharing!

    Best Regards,
     
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  15. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    VERY neat Gordon!

    Also see another SLSF 4508 photograph in the Frisco Archive tonight.

    Without the graphics and just big numbers, those things were brutes!

    Tom G.
     
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  16. paul slavens

    paul slavens Member

    Interesting that 4-8-4 SLSF 4508 in the Frisco Archive picture has the typical 4-8-4 rectangle front number plate.

    But then in later years in the picture on this thread she is wearing a coonskin number plate.

    I have to admit, my favorite paint on the 4500s is just all black with the large yellow numbers.

    I wish Tulsa, OK would have painted 4-8-4 SLSF 4500 all black when they restored her!
     
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  17. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    The yellow or imitation gold lettering was only on the oil burners 4-8-4 SLSF 4500, 4501, 4502.

    The original 4500 "passenger" engines.

    By the way, I think SLSF 4510 was another engine with a coonskin number plate.

    I have never heard any rhyme or reason why some Frisco engines came with or without the coonskin number plate.

    Tom G.
     
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  18. frisco1522

    frisco1522 Staff Member Staff Member

    The ones with the coonskin had been involved in some sort of front end damage.
     

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