Motorcar 2124 on Train #609 destined for Enid at Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 22, 1949 (Arthur B. Johnson).
2124 was built by Electro-Motive Corporation in 1928. It was 72 feet long, had 400 horsepower and was eventually sold to the Cassville and Exeter Railroad and subsequently retired in May 1952.
SW9s 313 and 312, GP35 706 and GP38-2 428 at St. Louis, Missouri in October 1978.
This photograph was taken on the north side of Lindenwood Yard. This late afternoon shot is of the Mechanical Department’s service tracks area east of the Lindenwood Diesel Shop. In silhouette on the right of the image is the east wall of the shop.
Two additional locomotives can be identified in this view. The locomotive in front of SW9 312, in mandarin orange and white paint is NW2 257. On the same track as but to the west of Frisco GP38-2 428 is Union Pacific (UP) U30C 2815.
Suggested reading in this issue is the article, “Thirty-Four Years With the Frisco” which begins on Page 10. Mr. Wilson (pictured) was born in 1866 and entered service with the Frisco in 1890.