Caboose SLSF 1416 Caboose SLSF 1416 - Hayti, MO. Hayti-Caruthersville, MO local. Photograph dated 7/7/1977. Photograph by Robert Tribble.
Caboose SLSF 1416 SLSF 1416 - Hyati, MO. Caboose is with EMD GP38AC SLSF 650. Hayti-Caruthersville, MO Local. Photograph dated 7/7/1977. Photograph by Robert Tribble.
I am looking for information on the whereabouts of Frisco caboose SLSF 1416. I know it made it to the merger. I was looking to see if it survived or is it in caboose heaven. I am also looking for pictures of any Frisco activity around the Caruthersville, MO area. I am working a history of the Frisco for our town's 150th anniversary. Anything is appreciated.
Well I like this website. If I would have researched a little more I would have found what I was looking for. I found according to the Library caboose SLSF 1416 alive and well in Purdy, MO. Still trying to gather data and possible Frisco items for a 150th birthday display here.
I am in awe here, but if you will go to this link and scan down a little ways on the page, you can see her still in action July 7, 1977 on the line between Hayti and Caruthersville, MO. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/slsf-1411-1420.128/#post-1349 I shot those photographs from my in-laws front porch there in Hayti, MO. I would only been working for the Frisco a little over a year then. Sorry I can not give you any more up to date information though. Sincerely Bob Tribble
Love the photographs. I am doing research on my grandfather who worked for the Frisco Railway as a conductor until he retired in 1974. Is there any way I can get copies of the photographs? Also, is there anything else you might be able to help me with to find more information on him? Thank you, Craig Blakey
Caboose SLSF 1416 Please see the following links for photographs of Frisco caboose SLSF 1416. http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/25d2aafa-1ec4-4ef6-94c6-f950d610e111.jpg (right side, 12/27/2007) http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/be115a86-0eda-432a-8a01-c33a31b4303e.jpg (right side, 12/27/2007) http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/591fbecd-969e-4ed3-a424-7daf66429d12.jpg (left side and A end, 12/27/2007) http://www.frisco.org/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=284&d=1128738201 (left side, 1/30/2000) This is one of the Frisco built extended or wide vision cabooses intended for local service. The car was constructed in the West Car Shops in Springfield, MO during 9/1975. The car was constructed with a main car body from former Pullman Standard PS-1 boxcar, SLSF 18469. The car's side sills hint at the car's former freight car origins. This car has retained its original windows. They have been covered with metal screens to help reduce vandalism problems. The car car sits in the open so it is readily accessible for field measurements and photographs. Fortunately the car has retained much of its original caboose red paint and lettering. The reporting marks, car number, "Ship it on the Frisco" slogan and coonskin herald clearly show. The car number has weathered to be truncated at the first 2 digits only. The caboose is located in southwestern Missouri, 7.6 miles south of Monett. The car sits near the center of town in a city park. This is 0.25 miles east of Missouri Highway 37. It is 3 blocks east of the Frisco's main line tracks of the Ft. Smith Subdivision. It sits on the southeast corner of Missouri Highway C and S. 3rd St. This is just north of the Purdy High School. The location address is 101 S. 3rd St., Purdy, MO 65734. Please see http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...oid=a6_7wD4-BzDUjtD_RmBFDQ&cbp=11,156.62,,0,5. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
