8 Responses to U25B 829

  1. Karl Brand says:
    January 15, 2016 at 5:41 PM

    Inbound West Yards, Springfield…..stockyards are the background.

  2. Terry Jankowski says:
    January 16, 2016 at 11:30 AM

    If Karl is correct, then this slide is in backwards as the stockyards were on the north side of the track. With the slide in this position #37 is east bound which is incorrect. I find it interesting to compare this slide with the previous slide of #37 of the war years with this #37 of the modern era. This #37 is the train I was familiar with in the years I worked for the Frisco (1971-1980) when we merged with the BN.

  3. Greg Stout says:
    January 16, 2016 at 1:57 PM

    I don’t know whether this is Springfield or not, but a few years back when I was working on the “Frisco in Color” book, I had all the “FT Collection” Frisco images in my hands to review. I don’t remember seeing very many FT slides taken around Springfield. Frank did most of his Frisco photography around Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

    As a side note, when FT died, his collection passed into the hands of another railfan who told me when they came to retrieve the slides, it took two pickup trucks to haul them away (they were not in trays).

  4. Karl Brand says:
    January 16, 2016 at 2:05 PM

    Stockyards were on the south side of the track in Springfield

  5. Terry Jankowski says:
    January 16, 2016 at 3:32 PM

    Well, I have been corrected, and I apologize for the erroneous information in my previous comment. I don’t know what I am remembering, but I see stock pens in my mind as we crossed over the railroad on Kansas Ave. when we would be taken to the diesel shop to get our engines. They must have been on the south not the north side of the railroad. I have googled the location of the stockyards, which of course is no longer there, and can’t figure out where they were. Karl, what was the address if you know it?

  6. TAG1014 says:
    February 1, 2016 at 1:35 AM

    The Springfield stockyards’ actual street address was in the 1300 block w. chase (65803), if you want to Google it.

    Tom G.

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