JUNE-JULY 1992 VOLUME 7 June-July, 1992 NUMBER 1

Frisco Folk Rick McClellan shares with us an assortment of modeling tricks, tips, and neat things to do that are relatively simple, inexpensive, and quick, all of which can enhance the appearance and operation of your layout. In this installment Frisco Folk Brad Slone shares some tips on installing coupler lift bars on HO Scale freight cars. Alan Schmitt Clarence Pearce Saundra Schmitt In this installment of Roster Tales Frisco Folk Ken Wulfert profiles the Charles E. Mahaffey roster of Frisco diesel locomotives still in service on the BN as of May, Warren Hall 1991. Richard Napper New Car Shop 19 In this edition of the New Car Shop Joe Pennington Frisco Folk Martin Editor Alan Schmitt Lofton share the first of a two part series on Frisco hopper car numbers, FMIS Editor Richard Napper their individual characteristics, and how to model them in HO Scale. Contributing Editors Rick McClellan Brad Slone Ken Wulfert Joe Pennington McCune, KS is the featured station in this issue. Martin Lofton Membership Secretary Rachel Schmitt Distribution Sarah Schmitt It was located between Ash Grove Walnut Grove, MO on the Kansas City, Clinton, Springfield Railway, better known as the Leaky Roof and produced Napoleon Gray Marble used in construction throughout the country. Today all that remains is the remnants of the quarry, a few buildings, portions of the railroad roadbed, and lots of silent memories. Included in this extensive profile is a right-of-way track map of the Phenix operations.

Frisco Folk Ray Millemann likes trains! He likes them so much, he has a Frisco Caboose in his front yard! Featured in this article is a historical profile of the 1400 series shop built cabooses, the saga of the final journey of #1431, and Rays renovation of a classic Frisco survivor.

Its Phenix Marble Co #1, a Hiesler steam locomotive in switching duties at Phenix, MO.

ABOUT THE COVER Built from stone quarried at the near by Phenix Marble Co, the depot at Phenix, MO is our cover photo for this issue. See related story on pp. 8- 1 3 David F. Callen Switchman Dennis G. Jones Conductor Kansas Missouri The Frisco Folks headline David Holland Switchman Martin E. Mueller Conductor marked the section in the various Kansas Minnesota company publications that reported Tom Galbraith Switchman Don Darst Brakeman the activities and accomplishments Missouri Missouri of company employees and their John F. Milz Switchman Joe Melodie Raposa Brakeman families. The Frisco was a family Illinois California oriented company! The Frisco Harold F. Olendorf Switchman Alex Chu Switchman Railroad Museum Inc. is Arkansas Pennsylvania continuing that family tradition in Robsrt Still Switchman Mark A. Davidson Switchman our FRISCO FOLKS support Missouri Missouri organization, for individuals who Anthony LaLumia Switchman Michael Newton Switchman believe in the purpose and objectives Kansas Illinois of the museum and are committed Todd Loge Switchman Richard K. Boas Switchman to preserving the rich heritage of Arkansas California the Frisco. A variety of membership Karl Brand Switchman James Poschel Switchman levels are offered, as follows: Texas Missouri Mary Gregg Switchman Steve Goen Switchman SWITCHMAN: A one year Missouri Texas membership for a donation of Emil Eskengren Jr. Switchman Robert H. Hanson Switchman $25.00 Missouri Georiga BRAKEMAN: A two year Charles Brand Switchman Robin Thomas Switchman membership for a donation of Missouri Arkansas $50.00. John Northcutt Jr Switchman Mike Zimmerschied Switchman FIREMAN: A three year membership Ohio Missouri for a donation of $75.00. Marshall Napper Switchman Jim W. Pendley Switchman CONDUCTOR: An expanded three Kansas Washington year membership for a donation of Robert Plough Switchman Thomas J. Jastrzebski Switchman $100.00. Missouri Illinois ENGINEER: A life membership for Lloyd Stagner Switchman Fred Rick Switchman a one time donation of $500.00 or Kansas Missouri more. Kenneth McElreath Switchman R. Scott Phillips Switchman Iowa Missouri Ed Heiss Switchman Philip Moseley Switchman The museum is pleased to Missouri Louisiana acknowledge the following Nicholas Smith Switchman Donald Byrd Switchman membership renewals in the Kansas Missouri FRISCO FOLKS: William Pennington Switchman David Friedman Switchman Missouri New York Frederick Clem. Conductor Jim Martin Switchman Charles Schafnitt Switchman Wisconsin Missouri Oklahoma Richard Hall Brakeman L.A. Reed Switchman Viola F. Cotter Switchman Illinois Virginia Oklahoma Stacey Jones Humble Switchman Hal Smith Switchman North Carolina Louisiana Rodney Zona Switchman Cliford Johnson Switchman Michigan Louisiana The Officers Board of Melvin Nierdieck Switchman A. Dean Hale Switchman Directors wish to acknowledge, with Missouri Texas grateful appreciation, the donation Michael Corley Switchman The museum is pleased to welcome of a large FRISCO letter sign, given Georgia the following new members to the in loving memory of Robert E. Martin Lofton Jr Switchman FRISCO FOLKS: Tyndall. thirty-six year veteran of Missouri the Frisco, by his family Francis Robert C. Williams Switchman Wayne Porter Engineer Tyndall, Robert Jr. Karen Tyndall, Florida Nebraska Derry Debbie Myers, and Raymond Teresa Green. Frisco Folk Rick McClellan shares with us an assortment of modeling tricks, tips, and neat things to do that are relatively simple, inexpensive, and quick, all of which can enhance the appearance and operation of your layout.

EDITORS NOTE: This issue of Frisco #13054 with regular coupler lift bar installed. Photo by author Ricks Tips is submitted by Frisco Folk and HO modeler Brad Stone. Insert a Details Associates Glue the two pieces of wire eyebolt in the hole and glue it into together according to the distance Freight Car Lift place. Paint the bolt and lift bar the between the corner of the car and color of the car. (The color doesnt the length of the coupler pocket. Bars have to be a perfect match) When This distance will vary according to Many of us go to great the paint drys, insert the bar and the type of pocket in use. Once the lengths in detailing our locomotives glue it to the bottom of the coupler wire is completed, glue the small and cabooses, however few do lid, making sure it is straight and pieces of styrene to the loop formed anything more than weathering our horizontal. by the wire. The centering is not rolling stock. To remedy such The second type of lift bar critical as long as they are evenly conditions on my freight roster, I used on cars with cushioned coupler spaced. have started adding coupler lift bars. pockets is more difficult to make, Next, drill a hole and insert This small detail is not difficult and but it really looks nice hanging the eyebolt in the same manner as you would be surprised how it can between cars. To fashion mine I before, paint it accordingly, and transform a car kit into a piece of formed it from two pieces of wire glue in place. This style of lift bar rolling stock! and two pieces of .05 styrene cut goes in at an angle so adjust the To add lift bars to your fleet, into scale 2" x 6" blocks. (See Figure 2) eyebolt accordingly and glue in you of course need lift bars! place. However, you need the correct type Its a simple and neat detail of bar which is determined according that will surely enhance efforts to... to whether the car has a regular coupler pocket or an extended pocket. The lift bar for the regular style coupler pocket is the easiest to make and can be bent from wire or purchased from Details Associates, Part #6215. I prefer to bend mine from scale 1" wire. (See Figure 1)

Figure 1 Once your lift bar is completed, look at your car and drill a #78 hole next to the step of the car on the left side, looking from the end. SL-SF #9302 with extended coupler lift bar installed. Photo by author Therefore, with these conditions and exceptions noted, we answer your questions, as follows: The MAIL CAR is a ALLfeature of the According to our records, there were ABOARD in which we six corporate coonskin logos in use attempt to answer between 1896 and 1980 as listed some of the many below with approximate time periods LOOKING BACKWARD is a regular questions that are for each. feature of the ALL ABOARD that submitted to our takes a look back through our files FRISCO RESEARCH at the people, equipment, facilities, SERVICE. operations, and events that were a If you have a question about part of the Frisco 25, 50, and 75 the equipment, facilities, or opera- years ago. tion of the Frisco, please send them to the RESEARCH SERVICE. All request are answered individually 25 YEARS - 1967 and selected questions will appear in the MAIL CAR feature. In April, 1967, thirty new 68 Wood Chip cars were added to QUESTION: Im confused and the Frisco roster, series 93000- curious! On the Looking Backward 93029. heading in the All Aboard, you show four different coonskin heralds. 50 YEARS - 1942 Were there any more and can you tell me the dates of each? In 1942, ninety-two miles of track was abandoned between ANSWER: Welcome to the ACCFF! McNair, AR and Dills, OK, on the Association of Confused Curious Muskogee Sub-Division of the old Frisco Folks!) Your questions are Red River Division (Central Division). two of the most common ones asked by Frisco Folks and museum visitors. The uses and dates of 75 YEARS - 1917 Frisco corporate logos is of interests to rail fans, modelers, and historians On June 17, 1917, the total for a variety of reasons, the most miles of track operated by the Frisco common of which is dating a and its subsidiary lines was particular document, memorabilia decreased by ninety-two miles due item, and/or piece of equipment. to the cancellation of a lease between The use, variations, and the St. Louis, San Francisco, dating of Frisco logos has not been Texas Railway Co. and the Gulf, previously addressed in the All Colorado, Sante Fe Railway Aboard because we felt that Co. sufficient documentation was not available. Although it appears that we now have the necessary materials and information to answer your questions, it should be understood that use of corporate logos was in no way exact and one can easily find what appears to be exceptions to the dates listed. For example, if one was changed and a carload of stationary or forms displaying the previous herald were in the storeroom, you can be assured that it was used first, regardless of how long it took. Frisco Wood Chip Car #93029. Springfield, MO, April, 1967. Frisco photo FRISCO news magazine Extra 2200 South. units in the individual classes that DIESEL ROSTER which I have been reading for years remained on the roster at the time Ten Years Later and recommend highly, I noticed a of the merger were wrecked during roster of the active BN units as of their SLSF life and thus were gone It has been over ten years May, 1991. As of that date, the BN from the roster before the merger now since the Frisco was absorbed rostered a total of 2,301 units. Below occurred. This interrupted the into the Burlington Northern in late and on p. 7 is a summary of the 440 numerical sequence of the old Frisco 1980. At the time of the merger, my Frisco units that existed at the time numbers. These units, of course, records show the SLSF diesel roster of the 1980 BN merger, and those never received a BN number. In totaled 440 units, ranging from one that still work under the green and addition to SD45s 909 and 926, small EMD SW1 switcher to a black flag of the Burlington noted in the table, the following substantial fleet of huge EMD SD45 Northern. individual units were missing from and SD40-2 six-axle road units. In By my count, 287 units the roster at merger time: GP38 between, the switcher fleet included rostered on the SLSF list as of the 651, GP38-2 674, GP35 723, and EMD NW2s, SW7s, SW9s, 1980 merger were still employed by U3OB 856. One other minor point SW1500s, MP15s, SD38-2s. the BN as of May, 1991-roughly was that BN GP50-2 3100 was the (Yes, the Frisco considered the big two-thirds of the Frisco units still unit to be numbered SLSF 791, six-axle SD38-2s as switchers since surviving. Thats not a surprise, while BN 3101 was to be SLSF 790. they were used as hump engines at since the Frisco roster was fairly This occurred because the second Tennessee Yard in Memphis and new and in good shape at the GP50-2 in the series ordered by the Cherokee Yard in Tulsa) . Additional merger. The units that have been Frisco was delivered (in Frisco s road power included EMD GP15- disposed of are generally the older paint scheme!) before the first. The 1s, GP35s, GP38s, GP38-2s, and ones-the NW2s, SW7s 9s, remaining units were painted in BN GP40-2s plus GE U25Bs, U3OBs GP35s, SD45s and U25Bs and colors when delivered. and B30-7s. Also included on the U3OBs. To my knowledge all the As always, please notify me SLSF roster but not yet delivered at SLSF units were painted up in the or the All Aboard editor if any reader the time of the merger were ten BN Cascades Green Black paint has any additions or corrections to EMD GP50-2s. scheme just after the merger and the tabulation. Well have to wait I have been curious for some prior to disposition. In any event, for a more detailed BN roster to time as to how many of the Frisco may they continue to enjoy a long learn of the details of the dispositions diesels are still at work for the BN. life as a remembrance of their great of the SLSF units that have been While reading the July/ August / Frisco heritage! retired by the BN. A great topic for September issue of fine locamotive Several of the Frisco diesel a future Roster Tale!

TYPE MODEL SLSF NUMBERS BN NUMBERS NOTES SWITCHERS: EMD SW1 10 70 Still used @ Mobile EMD NW2 250-265 410-425 Gone EMD SW7 300-304 75-79 Gone EMD SW9 305-314 260-269 Gone EMD SW1500 315-360 20-65 Still used EMD MP15 361-365 4000-4004 Still used, but now numbered 1000-1004 EMD SD38-2 296-299 6260-6263 Still used ROAD UNITS: EMD GP15- 1 100-124 1375-1399 Still used EMD GP35 700-732 2550-2581 Gone EMD GP38 633-662 2110-2138 Still used, except 2126 2136 (649 660) TYPE MODEL SLSF NUMBERS BN NUMBERS NOTES EMD GP38-2 663-699 2334-2369 Still used EMD GP38-2 400-478 2255-2333 Still used, 2315 (460) is GP38-2B 2601 EMD GP40-2 750-774 3040-3064 Still used EMD GP50-2 790-799 3100-3109 Still used, never used by SLSF GE U25B 808-831 5210-5233 Gone GE U3OB 832-862 5770-5799 Gone, except 5782, 5783, 5785, 5787, 5788, 5790. 5794- 5797, 5799, (844, 845, 847, 849, 850, 852, 857-860, 862) GE B30-7 863-870 5485-5492 Still used EMD SD40-2 950-957 6840-6847 Still used EMD SD45 900-908 6650-6658 All SD45 s gone, 910-925 6659-6674 909 926 wrecked 927-948 6675-6696 before merger

Mrs. Slater went with her husband Saturday morning when he traveled on train No. 101 to Thayer to bring the big red diesel to Springfield at the head of the crack GETTING IT passenger train. Few of his associates knew that it was to be the veteran engineers retirement CORRECT trip. The Roster Tale in the April! Mr. Mrs. Slater had been May issue of the All Aboard, pp. 12- married 37 years and the Frisco 13, which addressed the Friscos was responsible for their romance. F-M H-10-44 and H-12-44 diesel They met while she was working in switchers, contained an error. The a cafe at Rogersville, MO, and he former D RGW H-10-44 that the was fireman on a work train that SLSF purchased in 1969 for parts stopped there long enough for the but instead rebuilt and put in service crew to eat. was incorrectly referenced as road It happened that Mrs. number 296. The correct Slaters farm home was near the identification for this locomotive was Frisco tracks, about a mile out of number 286. Rogersville. After the couple met, he would blow the whistle of the Railroaders Farewell engine as he passed her home and Wife Makes Last Run With Frisco Engineer if she was there she would wave at him. When the Kansas City- Mr. Slater passed away in Florida Special arrived at the 1958 and Mrs. Slater in 1990. Springfield, MO station Sunday However. the familys involvement morning at 2:40, on October 31, with the Frisco is still alive. Their 1954, the engineer, George E. Slater, son, Charles, who is now retired, is 1310 West Brower, said good-by to part of the team who is casting the 46 years of railroading on the Frisco. museums steam locomotive With him to celebrate the Engineer as Mrs. George E. Slater shown upon the number boards. last run was his wife, Blanche who arrival of his last run after 46 years with the Frisco. thus became one of the first women Springfield (MO) Leader-Press photo, taken at Springfield, ever to ride in a Frisco engine. M3 , passenger station, October 31, 1954.