Frisco Transportation Company

I think it might be Mandarin red, it came in about the same time as the Manarin and white locomotive paint scheme. FTC colors had been black on yellow (Maybe like the "earlier" diesel paint scheme??).

Tom

 

The GM&OHS had Mini Metals run a special set of 3 trucks a couple of years ago in both HO and N scale. How about a run of Frisco?
Andre Ming, we gotta contact SHS to consider a tractor/trailer Frisco set in S scale. They have run Santa Fe and Great Northern to date. Yup, I´m goin´ S, as soon as I can generate $ from the sale of my non-Frisco books!

Joe Toth

 

Wow! There's a lot of great photos and information here. Thanks everyone. I'm defiantly going to make some tractors and trailers in a FTC scheme for my High Line V-scale route.

I had some questions about the operations of the FTC. Specifically Clinton and Bolivar Missouri. Was freight ever exchanged between the FTC and rail in these towns? What was the general business model of the FTC? I'm guessing to generate revenue from customers that normally couldn't be served by rail. Is that correct?

 

Very nice work, Keith.

 

I have a good photo of an FTC tractor trailer unit taken by Craig Photo Company, Springfield, Mo. Taken by John
E. Craig, Jr., number 5079. this photographer might have other photos. I also have a photo of the passanger
buses. The truck photo has a phone number of 6-7512 which gives a clue of how old it is. I might be able to
find an old business card that would have a small replica of the FTC logo. The photo is yellow with black trim.
The colors were changed to Frisco red with white trim sometime in the late 50's. Over the road trailers were not painted at that time, they were alum.

 

I keep trying. In fact I sent you a photo of a tractor trailer & a Passenger bus earlier & it
showed up on your thread at the time but when I come back to check, the reply & photos
Are not there. Must have hit the wrong button. Anyway do you know when the FTC ceased
operation & whether the Burlington Truck Line were combined following the merger.

 

See- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~veregge/ftc/ftc.html

It states "This service came to an end December 1958 when motor truck carriers through the American Trucking Association, partitioned the U S Court (case number 3580133) and it was determined the railroad did not have Interstate rights for their motor trucks just because its rails were there. It did have Intrastate rights in Missouri, so all trucks were pulled back in 1959 to serve only the state of Missouri."

No information as to when the Missouri operation stopped.

 

Good idea. Bill (William Phipps) Also, the actual scale models.

 

Nice job. Not sure which red color is the official red. Certainly remember the black & yellow because that's
what it was during my 30 plus years as an employee.

 

The 1968 end date for the Frisco Transportation Co appears incorrect. FTC had an office in Fayetteville, AR in 1974 that was robbed of a calculator and two sandwiches. FTC was also in existence in 1981 as 150 employees in Springfield , MO requested job protection as a result of the BN merger.

 

Would anyone know how to obtain employment records for Frisco Transportation like you can for the railroad? My grandfather drove for Frisco off and on and retired as a driver for Burlington Northern. I don't remember the year, probably mid 1980s.

 

Here is the Frisco Transportation Company's listing from the Russell's Bus Guide (the bus equivalent of the Official Guide) in March 1944. Did Frisco Transportation ever issue a separate timetable, other than the pages appearing in the back of the railroad public timetable?
Bill Pollard