I am looking for photographs of GP7 SLSF 586 in the black and yellow scheme. Any help would really be appreciated. My godfather and railroad mentor, Ben Ross, worked on the engine for a time when it was assigned to Fayetteville, AR. I have only seen one photograph of it and it was taken in Fayetteville on South Hill Street when it and an automobile decided to meet at the grade crossing. Locomotive 1 / Automobile 0. This occurred in the early to mid 1960s. Thanks for any help. Phil Danner
There is a head on photograph of GP7 SLSF 586 on page 59 of Frisco Diesel Power by Louis Marre and John Harper. Perhaps, either one of these gentlemen might have other photographs of her as well. Springfield, MO is my hometown, with my McGilvry family having worked for the Frisco for over 100 years. Good luck, Dan
According to Marre & Harper's Frisco Diesel Power, page 63, GP7 SLSF 586 was built in October 1951, received by the Frisco on October 21, 1951, serial number 13319. It was retired and sold to Precision National Company (PNC) July 21, 1976 and operated as PNC 586. It was sold again in August 1976 to the Chicago and North Western (C&NW). They repainted it as C&NW 4369. Retired on August 27, 1988, it was traded in to General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division (EMD) and scrapped by St Louis Auto Shredding Company. This photo is CNW 4369 incarnation. http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0105/cnw4369.jpg Another earlier photograph, taken on October 11, 1976, appears to have some remaining Frisco paint. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=128191 Edited second photo url to show full size.
The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, AR has an image of a GP7 on Hill Street, Fayetteville, AR.
