SW9 305
SW9 305 at St. Louis, Missouri on August 30, 1980 (Bob Graham).
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SW1500 315
SW1500 315 at McCook, Illinois on September 30, 1968 (James Claflin).
44-Ton Davenport Switcher 1
44-Ton Davenport Switcher 1 at Fort, Smith, Arkansas on June 27, 1958 (G.B. Mott).
This photograph is in the book Frisco Power by Louis A. Marre and John Baskin Harper. It starts Chapter 3, Small Units, on Page 27. The caption indicates the units were in storage, but had been moved outside for their monthly inspection and startup.
Also the Frisco Power caption attributes the photograph to Louis A. Marre. The caption above in Frisco Archive attributes the photo to G. B. Mott.
SLSF 1 was acquired in February, 1942 and used as a trade-in to the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors in February, 1967. During its Frisco ownership the unit was leased from 1958-1964 to Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company at their car building facility in Bessemer, Alabama.
SLSF 2, visible beyond the turntable pit, was acquired in April, 1942. She was the first Frisco diesel to be retired. It was sold to the Tulsa-Sapulpa Union (TSU) Railway on March 30, 1960. On that railroad it became TSU 2.
Special thanks to Mark Davidson.
U25B 820
U25B 820 at St. Louis, Missouri in August 1971 (Wagner).
GP35 722, GP38-2 665 and GP35 701
GP35 722, GP38-2 665 and GP35 701 at Amory, Mississippi in May 1980.
The train is northbound. In the background on the left is the “new” metal depot/yard office at 101 Front Street North in Amory. In the early 1970s this depot replaced the former 1916, flat roofed, eight inch tile, stucco covered passenger depot. To the right of the train are the yard, freight car and locomotive mechanical facilities.
Amory was the division point separating the Tupelo Subdivision (North to Memphis/Yale Yard/Tennessee Yard) from the Birmingham Subdivision (Southeast to Birmingham, Alabama) and the Columbus Subdivision (South to Magnolia, Mississippi and ultimately Pensacola, Florida or Aliceville, Mississippi and via the former AT&N, ultimately, Mobile, Alabama).
One half block to the Southeast of the depot the Frisco had a blond brick, two story building that housed the offices for the Southern Division. That building is now the Amory City Hall and offices. In front of the building is the city’s Frisco Park. In the Northwest corner of the park, under a steel shed roof, is Frisco 1529. This steam engine is a Mountain type, 4-8-2 wheel arrangement, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1926.
The view is looking Southeast.
Special thanks to Mark Davidson.
Frisco Transportation Company
Frisco Transportation Company truck at Kansas City, Missouri (date unknown).
The photograph was taken at the north end of Frisco’s 19th Street Yard. The building in the background above the Frisco Transportation Company’s (FTC) truck tractor nose is the Frisco’s Freight House. Visible is the southeast corner of the two story office section, with the one story freight house section, on a north/south axis, extending to the photo’s left edge.
In the photo’s upper left corner, north of the freight house, is the three level West 12th Street viaduct. This viaduct connects downtown Kansas City, Missouri with the West Bottoms area Central Industrial District. Downtown is high on the bluff to the east (right). The Central Industrial District is in bottom land area near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers.
The view is looking northwest.
Special thanks to Mark Davidson.
SW1500 340
SW1500 340 at Memphis, Tennessee on July 24, 1980 (J. Harlen Wilson).
GP38-2 457
GP38-2 457 at Springfield, Missouri in September 1978 (Neil Shankweiler).
SD45 927
SD45 927 at Denison, Texas on May 10, 1980 (Gene Gant).
SD40-2 951 and SD45 923
SD40-2 951 and SD45 923 at St. Louis, Missouri on August 12, 1978 (Paul Dalman).
