U30B 861 and GP38ACs 639 and 637 at Memphis, Tennessee on February 7, 1979 (G.J. Sommers).
SD45 917 and GP38AC 645 at Mobile, Alabama (Sconza).
GP38AC 639 and GP38-2 667 at Springfield, Missouri in May 1978 (Ken McElreath).
GP38-2 438, GP38AC 650 and GP38-2 463 at St. Louis, Missouri in September 1980 (Lon Coone).
The Frisco Archive is bit confused about GP38-2 463. None of the other pictures we have of this unit have white numberboards.
U30B 836, GP35 701 and GP38AC 654 at Oklahoma City, OK (date unknown).
Oklahoma City crossing High Street traveling west bound on the mainline. Next stop Yard Office.
Special thanks to Jerome Lutzenberger
GP38AC 646 at St. Louis, Missouri on April 19, 1980 (Michael Wise).
GP38AC 654 at Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 13, 1972 (James Claflin).
GP38AC 658 and GP38-2s 406 and 675 at Memphis, Tennessee in September 1973.
The train is southbound on the Memphis Subdivision. The locomotives have just crossed over the Mississippi River on the single track Frisco Bridge. Just off the bridge, they have passed the start of Frisco’s two main tracks through the city at Shelco (Shelby County), mile post 483.1 (MP 483.1), but are North (geographic West) of Union Railway Crossing, MP 483.6. This later point was known as Kentucky Street on the railroads to the immediate North (CRIP, MoP, SSW). In the lower portion of the photo, North of the Frisco’s tracks, are three tracks of these railroads.
At this point the train is entering the West end of “Broadway”. “Broadway” is a 2.8 mile East/West corridor of multiple tracks for various railroads extending from the two railroad river crossing bridges (Frisco and Harahan) east to KC Junction. KC Junction lies between Interstate Highway 69 (I-69) to the West and South Waldran Boulevard to the East. At KC Junction the Eastern railroads (Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&SL) – Louisville and Nashville (L&N), Southern (Sou), and Union Railway (URY (- OP)) diverge to their individual routes and yards to the Northeast, East and the Frisco to the Southeast.
The highway bridge in the distance is the four-leaf clover style junction with spokes of Interstate Highway 55 (West and South) at milepost exit 12, E.H. Crump Boulevard (East) and Riverside Drive (North). The westward bound left hand highway sign notes Interstate Highway 55, U.S. Highway 61 North, St Louis, U.S. Highways 64, 70 and 71. The right hand exit sign notes Interstate Highway 55 South, Jackson, Mississippi.
Out of view to the West (photo right edge) of this location are three parallel, through truss, major bridges crossing the Mississippi River. On the North (upstream) side is the Harahan Bridge (CRIP, MoP, SSW). It has double tracks, is 4,972 feet long and was opened on July 14, 1916. On the South side is the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (“old highway” bridge). This is the most southern of the three bridges, is four vehicle lanes wide, 5,222 feet long and was opened on December 17, 1949.
Sandwiched in the middle between these is the Frisco Bridge. It has one track, is 4,887 feet long and opened May 12, 1892. When completed by the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis (KCFS&M) Railway it was the first bridge crossing of the Mississippi River at Memphis.
The view is looking Southwest.
Special thanks to Mark Davidson.
GP38AC 658 at Kansas City, Missouri on July 19, 1975 (James Primm).
GP38AC 649 and GP38-2 401 at Lenexa, Kansas on August 10, 1976 (James Primm).
