Would it be safe to say that the Frisco had better relations with the Rock Island, compared to the MoPac and the Cotton Belt?
According to Marvin Clemons' (excellent) Birmingham Rails, the Frisco's famous fast freight, Train #138 (I may be a bit off on the number) would...
Was there any livestock traffic on the Memphis-Amory-Birmingham end of the Frisco? It could make for a fun addition to my eventual Southern...
Do you know when the new freight house on Powell Street was built?
Wasn't the main Frisco freight depot in Birmingham at Ninth Avenue Yard?
Based on checking the Southern Division timetables available on here, originally the Southern Division extended from Springfield, Missouri, to...
In my wildest dreams, I've been brainstorming a dream layout depicting the Frisco from Memphis to Birmingham.
When did the Frisco install CTC on the Southern Division?
Did the Frisco interchange freight traffic with the Cotton Belt in Memphis in the 1940s-50s? Looking at the maps on Mike Condren's site, the...
First of all - a huge thanks to @Karl and everyone else who has replied. Unfortunately, I would really like to model the Frisco's operations in...
Hey all, I wanted to create a thread here for planning the layout I hope to eventually build, at some indeterminate point in the future. Here are...
Looking at the map of the Frisco in the 1920s-1950s, there's something of a "hole," that being New Orleans, and Louisiana as a whole. The Frisco...
I've seen photos of these engines hanging around Springfield (Missouri, that is) - does anyone know how often they traveled to Birmingham, Alabama?
Does anyone know how common reefer traffic was on the Southern Division (Memphis to Birmingham) in the 40s and 50s? I've seen an ice dock on the...
Thank you Mark, this should help quite a bit. Looking at the maps, I assume the Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, the Cotton Belt would have been...
I'm interested in the Frisco's Southern Division between Memphis and Birmingham in the 40s and 50s, and I've been trying to find as many track...
Does anyone know what railroads the Frisco interchanged with in Memphis in the 1940s and 1950s? If anyone could find a page from the ORER that...
What system did the Frisco use to dispatch trains on the Birmingham Division in the 1940s and 1950s: TT&TO, CTC, or something else?
Thank you Gabriel! I imagine most SCL traffic would have come from the SAL, instead of the former AB&C/ACL. I don't exactly know how much...
Hey all, does anyone know what railroads the Frisco interchanged with the most at Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s? I remember reading that the...
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