Frisco east of the Mississippi

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  1. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    Anyone modeling this part of the Frisco?
     
  2. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    Looks like none. I’m not surprised. There seems to be a model railroad desert south of the latitude defined by the Arkansas/Louisiana border. Don’t know why.
     
  3. Ozarktraveler

    Ozarktraveler Member

    I believe there are/were a couple.

    The Birmingham area for one and the gentlemen who modeled that huge warehouse/cotton facility or something similar.

    Ken M. and Curt A. maybe?
     
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  4. klrwhizkid

    klrwhizkid Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    Ken McElreath does model the Birmingham area.
     
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  5. Ozarktraveler

    Ozarktraveler Member

    Thanks Keith,

    I think the other was Brandon Adams (RIP).
     
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  6. meteor910

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

    Clearly all the SLSF through Memphis and on to the eastern portions of the railroad are east of the Mississippi and on to the Gulf.
     
  7. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    6BE7CC91-4ABC-4A64-9EA2-07DF79D2C2CD.png I always wondered if the Frisco decapods (1613-1632) ran east of the Mississippi. This from the October 1931 Frisco Employe’s magazine appears to document it, although the “Magnolia” I am familiar with is on the IC way down by the Louisiana/Mississippi border, maybe someone can clarify where the “Magnolia” in the report is.
     
  8. gstout

    gstout Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Looks like none. I’m not surprised. There seems to be a model railroad desert south of the latitude defined by the Arkansas/Louisiana border. Don’t know why.

    Basements in the south are few and far between, especially in areas where there are few ridgelines that can accommodate a walkout basement.

    GS
     
  9. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    We have attics. I’ve seen several great attic layouts. You have to insulate them and condition them but then, you need to waterproof and condition basements too.

    Year round weather suitability for some sort of outdoor activity may account for some of the low numbers of indoor hobbyists in the south of any kind.
     
  10. Texas_Midland

    Texas_Midland Member

    I'm modelling the A,T & N from Reform, Alabama to Troy, Alabama in the 1920's. It became a Frisco
    subsidiary Railroad around that time and it Interchanges with Frisco.
     
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  11. pbender

    pbender Member Frisco.org Supporter

    I am planning on building a Free-moN module of the Frisco’s Blakely island trackage… I’ll be modeling the ferry slip and at least one of the industries adjacent to the ferry slip.

    The module is planed to be about 10 feet long with a T shape and will be 3 pieces.

    Paul
     
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  12. ncstl576

    ncstl576 Member

    In my wildest dreams, I've been brainstorming a dream layout depicting the Frisco from Memphis to Birmingham.
     
  13. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    Where was the division between coal and oil fuel? Memphis?
     
  14. Karl

    Karl 2008 Engineer of the Year Frisco.org Supporter

    Proximity to the Illinois Basin Coal Fields and the Appalachian Coal Fields provided a ready fuel source for Southern Division motive freight power. Otherwise, passenger power used Bunker C.
     
  15. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    Was the southern division everything east and south of Memphis?
     
  16. ncstl576

    ncstl576 Member

    Based on checking the Southern Division timetables available on here, originally the Southern Division extended from Springfield, Missouri, to Birmingham, Alabama, with the Willow Springs Sub extending from Springfield to Memphis. This changed at some point between 1948 and 1953, though I'm not sure when.

    After the Willow Springs Sub was dropped, the Southern Division consisted of everything east and south of Memphis, though the AT&N is in a bit of a weird category.
     
  17. Karl

    Karl 2008 Engineer of the Year Frisco.org Supporter

  18. Texas_Midland

    Texas_Midland Member

    Correction : Actually, the Alabama, Tennessee, & Northern RR did not become a subsidiary of the St Louis & San Francisco until 1948 and in the late 1920's, the AT&N's Owner, JT Cochrane, signed a "Reciprocal Traffic Agreement" with the Frisco which allowed for the construction of the Frisco-AT&N Interlocking and Wye Trackage at Aliceville, AL and, some degree of Freight Exchange as a few parallel sidings were constructed next to the Frisco Main Track just N of the Wye. What the Frisco was up to in Western Alabama at that time was constructing a line to Pensacola, FL. As for Mr Cochrane, this new Agreement with Frisco opened a Financial Option for him to extend the AT&N all the way down to Mobile.
     
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  19. RK24

    RK24 Member

    I plan to do Frisco's ownership of the C&EI when I can actually build a full layout
     
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