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E8A 2012 (Flying Ebony)

by Frisco.org Posted on December 25, 2017
E8A 2012 (Flying Ebony at Monett, Mo, May 10, 1965 (Al Chione)
E8A 2012 (Flying Ebony)

E8A 2012 (Flying Ebony) at Monett, Mo, May 10, 1965 (Al Chione).

Location is Monett, Missouri.

Train is The Meteor performing very early morning station work at Monett, MP 282.0. At the date and time of the photograph Time Tables Number 45, effective Sunday, August 9, 1964 at 12:01 AM Central Standard Time are in use.

The Eastward train, Number 10, is scheduled to arrive at 12:10 AM. It has traveled over the Cherokee Subdivision of the Southwestern Division from Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is scheduled to depart for Springfield, Missouri on the Springfield Subdivision of the Eastern Division at 12:30 AM.

Number 10 and its counterpart train Number 9 have a timetable scheduled meet 8.2 miles to the east at Vernona, Missouri, MP 273.7, at 12:50 AM. Unless otherwise directed by signal indication, this is centralized traffic control (CTC) territory, or Train Order, train Number 10 will hold the main track and Number 9 will take the siding. As noted in the timetable “Eastward trains are superior to westward trains of the same class.”

The Westward train, Number 9, is scheduled to arrive at Monett at 1:20 AM. It will travel over the Springfield Subdivision of the Eastern Division from Springfield. It is scheduled to depart for Tulsa on the Cherokee Subdivision of the Southwestern Division at 1:35 AM.

In this time period daylight trains Number 3 and Number 4, The Will Rogers, also served this station. The scheduled times for Westward train Number 3 were 4:10 PM / 4:20 PM (arrival / departure). The scheduled times for Eastward train Number 4 were 1:35 PM / 1:50 PM.

Within a few months both trains would be discontinued. Time Table Number 46, Effective Saturday, September 18, 1965, eliminated both trains. They were be replaced with trains Number 1 and Number 2 (second use of these train numbers), The Oklahoman. In just over 20 months the Oklahoman also would be discontinued, ending east / west passenger service on the Frisco, with Time Table Number 47, Effective Sunday May 28, 1967.

Photograph is also noted as being from the collection of Joe Hughes.

Date of the image is May 10, 1965.

Special thanks to Mark Davidson

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E8A 2020 (Big Red)

by Frisco.org Posted on June 27, 2017
E8A 2020 (Big Red) (date and location unknown) (Jim Ozment)
E8A 2020 (Big Red)

E8A 2020 (Big Red) at Affton (St. Louis County), Missouri on November 7, 1954 (Jim Ozment).

The passenger train is southbound Number 807, The Sunnyland. This is the St. Louis to Memphis connection to train Number 107 (Memphis to Birmingham). The photograph was taken on the St. Louis Subdivision at or about mile post 12.5 (MP 12.5). This places the train between the Frisco stations of Gravois (MP 11.0) and Alpha (MP 13.2).

Just to the south of the indicated mile post, behind the photographer, is Bridge 12.5. This 545 foot deck plate girder (DPG) bridge is an overpass above (southbound) the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Gravois Creek and Alpha Cement Road (now renamed Green Park Industrial Drive).

The Missouri Pacific line was their Carondelet Subdivision of the St. Louis Terminal Division. This route extended 10.8 miles from Krik Junction (0.2 miles east of their Kirkwood, Missouri) to Broadway Junction (near the intersection of Primm Street and Alabama Avenue in south St. Louis). Today the Frisco overpass is just east of mile marker 3 on the 8.25 mile rails to trails Grant’s Trail.

The photograph is from the Western Rail Images collection of railroad photographs by Jim and Doug Ozment. This view is from their group of photos titled “Frisco – St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad 1950s”. It is listed as their image number SLSF 55.

Their images SLSF 56 and SLSF 57 show the same 5 car train on bridge 12.5. This sequence of photographs is mislabeled in their album as Train 105, the Sunnyland. Train 105, the Kansas City-Florida Special, did not run on this route.

View is looking north/northwest.

Special thanks to Mark Davidson.

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