VOLUME 3 March, 1989 NUMBER 10

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO ALEXANDER HILTON

H and SONG

E.O.

COMPOSED WHIT V. RIDING ON A FRISCO TRAIN

PUBLTSHED BY E.O. ROARK SPRINGFIELD MO.

From the collection of Chuck Mahaffey 75 years - 1914

In 1914, ten postal and mail-coach combination cars The Museum is pleased to were rebuilt into combination acknowledge the following mail and baggage cars, at an membership renewals in the approximate cost of $3,700.00 FRISCO FOLKS: each, as follows: RAILROAD MUSEUM INC. P. Allen Copeland Switchman #4 became #140 OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS California became #141 PRESIDENT Alan Schmitt John F. Bradbury Jr. Switchman #21 became #122 VICE—PRESIDENT Clarence Pearce #26 became #108 SECRETARY—TREASURER Saundra Schmitt BOARD MEMBERS Charles E. Mahaffey #27 became #110 Warren Hall The museum is pleased to #28 became #112 Richard Napper welcome the following new #29 became #111 members to the FRISCO FOLKS: #51 became #138 NEWSLETTER STAFF #74 became #137 EDITOR Alan Schmitt Guy S. Pollard Brakeman #?? became #136 FMIS EDITOR Richard Napper Missouri CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Kenneth Wulfert DISTRIBUTION Rachel Schmitt Martin Lofton Switchman Sarah Schmitt California PRINTER Gregg Porterfield Samuel E. Pick Switchman The ALL ABOARD Newsletter is published monthly for members of the FRISCO FOLKS, a support organization of The Frisco Railroad Museum Inc. The museum facility is located at 500 Walker St. in Ash Grove, MO. All correspondence should he The EXCESS BAGGAGE is a addressed to P.O. Box 276, Ash Grove, MO 65604. All material in the newsletter is monthly feature of the ALL copyrighted by The Frisco Railroad Museum ABOARD that lists newly Inc. and may not be reproduced in any manner without the expressed written acquired items not on the consent of the museum President. The current EXCESS BAGGAGE list Frisco Railroad Museum Inc. is not affiliated with the St. Louis—San and/or items from the list Francisco Railway Co., the Burlington offered during the month at a Northern Railroad Co., or any of its subsidiaries. discounted price. Unless THE otherwise noted, discounted LOOKING BACKWARD is a monthly prices are only good through feature of the ALL ABOARD that the month listed. takes a look back through our files at the people and events !!!!! NEW ARRIVALS !!!!! that were a part of the Frisco 25, 50, and 75 years ago. DINING CAR LINENS: 25 years - 1964 57"x42" table cloth - old style with "FRISCO LINES" in On March 1, 1964, President each corner (2)...$35.00 each L.W. Menk broke ground for construction of the new Frisco 34"x34" table cloth - new general office building in style with "FRISCO LINES" logo In 1912, Mr. E.O. Roark took Springfield, MO. On March 3, and name bar in middle..$25.00 a journey on the Frisco from 1964, the largest single St. Louis to Springfield, MO. shipment of refined soybean PROMOTIONAL PINBACKS: His trip inspired him to write oil to move on the Frisco left a song, "ON THE FRISCO," while St. Louis on freight #835. "WE ARE STRONG ON SAFETY IN riding on the train. The The train consist included SEVENTY" have 1 $2.50 words to the song are as thirty-three cars of the oil follows: being transported from the "FREEDOM FROM ACCIDENTS 76" Drew Foods Corporation, St. have 4 $2.00 "Now while were riding on Louis, to New Orleans. this train come all join in on STILL AVAILABLE !!!!! this refrain to swell the joy 50 years - 1939 as we roll on toward our homes Gold Frisco "Quarter Century" again; Between August 21 and December lapel pin - MINT CONDITION - Well have some fun while on 11, 1939, five "Santa Fe" type $45.00 2-10-2 locomotives were this run no matter if it snows MARCH SPECIALS FROM or rains; rebuilt by the Frisco as LIST #8 Change cars when they stop and "Mountain" type 4-8-2 engines, take a Frisco train." as follows: DINING CAR CHINA: #42 became #4400 The song was dedicated to Blue Denmark pattern Alexander Hilton who, in 1912, #46 became #4401 #52 became #4402 was General Passenger Agent in 5 1/2" salad bowl $22.50 St. Louis. #53 became #4403 #56 became #4404 6" oval vegetable dish $25.00

video tape manufacturers had a great day. Noting that 1522 set off several NS hot box detectors along the way. First it was funny, then it was a pain. The train had to stop and be inspected each time!

surprised to see the smoke was As with all trains, it coming from the ALCo S2 the seems, running way behind station used as a switcher! schedule. Few cared! The 1522 was hissing peacefully out under US 40, Hearing 1522s crew making almost no smoke a all! exchanging whistle salutes with the NS trains we met On October 22, 1988, I had Noting that I was assigned along the way, and hearing us the pleasant task of riding to Car 13 - just my luck. called "Extra 1522" on their behind Friscos restored 4-8-2 Then realizing that Car 13 was radios. Mountain 1522 on a fan trip to the second car behind 1522! Decatur, IL over the old Noting that we had almost Wabash main line (now Norfolk Realizing that about half as big a trailing caravan on Southern). As most ALL ABOARD of the people in my car the way back to St. Louis, at readers know, this past spring werent actual railfan types, night, in the dark! 1522s restoration by the St. but just some folks who wanted Louis Steam Train Association to see and ride behind a steam was completed. The engine on an "old fashioned" restoration project was passenger train. I had fun started in the fall of 1985, explaining that we werent and is now recognized as one making coal smoke (oil), and of the finest restoration telling them about SLSF projects of an operating steam 1500s. locomotive in the U.S. The Hearing the sharp exhaust Decatur trip was the first bark and melodious steamboat chance 1522 had to show off in whistle of 1522. Magnificent! a big way around her home She was something to behold town, and none of the hundreds inside the St. Louis who rode to Decatur were riverfront tunnels, in disappointed with the engines particular on the return trip. performance. Since 1522 is now receiving Enjoying the great quite a bit of well deserved companionship that is to be attention in the railroad and found in passenger car railfan press, and since vestibules on railfan trips. several video tapes of her are now available, I wont dwell Thrilling at seeing my on the details of the October first Frisco 1500 in action, trip to Decatur. Instead, I close and up front. After would like to list a series of the photo run by, I went up to impressions I noted that day, my good friend Don Wirth, who which I hope will convey some was an active participant on of the excitement, thrills, the restoration team and part and general interest that a of the crew, and said, "Don, May, 1988 Ken Wulfert Photo steam engine, in particular a now I understand!" beautiful Frisco steam engine, I understand that plans are generates on such a trip. Noting the number of being made for 1522 to run a Needless to say, it was a children that parents brought number of times in 1989. I great day and I had a ball! to the towns and crossings to see us roar by. And, seeing hope so. I would urge anyone At an early breakfast at a them all smile and wave. We who has an interest to join local "burger-doodle," noting must have looked great! one of these trips and enjoy! with delight that the day was going to be beautiful, just As always, waving to people what 1522 would have ordered, from a train. Great fun! and then seeing a bunch of people come in with Frisco Seeing a friend of mine hats on. along the line getting photos of us four times between St. Approaching St. Louis Louis and Granite City. The Whyte System 2-8-0 Union Station on US 40 and "Consoliation," Impact seeing the first column of Observing the antics of the Demonstration Car, Frisco, steam smoke I had seen in trailing auto caravan in Texas, Frisco Band, "The years rising from the huge mid-. It was longer Frisco Angel of Mercy," plus train shed. The being than the train! Kodak and the much, much more. were used as trade-ins to G.E. was the original placement for credit on new U3OB when the engines were engines. delivered and the #273 The H10-44 engine is a arrangement was the result of relatively simple one to model a later paint shop in HO. All you need is one modification. Microscale set Athearn powered undecorated #85 will work nice for the SW1500 switcher #140-4001 and "FRISCO" and road numbers. one Cary Locomotive Works There are currently no decal H10-44 metal shell #C1-53. sets available for the The Athearn unit is $21.50 and coonskin number on the nose.= the Cary shell runs $17.95. The only major modification that has to be made is to the H10-44 1000 H.P. SWITCHER Athearn frame. It needs to be MODELING UP DATE cut at the fuel tank and Between March, 1948, and lengthened to accommodate the Frisco Folk Karl Brand July, 1949, the Frisco took longer wheelbase of the Cary reports that if you can live delivery of twelve Fairbanks- body. with an "almost Frisco" Morse H10-44, 1000 H.P. switch The shell is painted coaling tower (ALL ABOARD, engines, Nos. 270-281. One Floquil Engine Black January, 1989, pp. 3-4) additional H10-44 unit was #270-11010 and the handrails Suncoast Models makes a nice purchased secondhand in 1969. are Floquil Reefer Yellow HO scale 200 ton concrete It was former Denver Rio #270-110031. The side stripes coaling station that is a Grande Western Railroad #122, and front end chevrons can be close resemblance to the that became Frisco #286. In made from Microscale Katy Afton, OK tower pictured in 1951, the company purchased decal set #87-181. Note the the January article.= four more locomotives that two different chevron styles were powered by 1200 H.P. and placement as illustrated engines and were equipped with by the photos of engines No. controls for multiple unit 271 and 273. The #271 style (MU) operation (H12-44 Nos. 282-285). It is interesting to note that the MU connections were placed on the cab end only. Thus, any multiple-unit operation was in a cab-to-cab or "back-to-back" configuration. When placed into service, all seventeen units were assigned to switching duties in and around Tulsa and Muskogee, OK. The entire fleet remained in service until 1973, with many being repainted in the latter years orange and white paint livery. Seven units were eventually scrapped (Nos. 271, 273-275, and 277-279). The remainder of the fleet Frisco photo

Frisco photo R.E. Napper photo The MAIL CAR is a regular feature of the Modelers Information Pages in which we Covered Hopper #79581 Frisco photo attempt to answer some of the many questions that are mailed In the early 1960s, the to our RESEARCH SERVICE. If Frisco started a program of When the merger was you have a question about the up-dating its aging fleet of completed, the cars were equipment, facilities, or 1940s era hopper cars. Part renumbered as follows: operation of the Frisco, of that program was the please send them to the purchase, in 1967, of 300 50 79000-79299 became BN 445100- RESEARCH SERVICE. All request hopper cars from the Pullman- 445399 are answered individually and Standard Car Co. Series 79300-79499 became BN 439000- selected questions will appear 79000-79299, the cars cost 439199 in the MAIL CAR feature. $14,550.00 each. In 1971, 200 79500-79999 became BN 445400- additional units were added to 445899 OUESTION: Did the Frisco ever the fleet, Nos. 79300-79499. paint any of its cabooses red, Three years later 300 55 To model the 7900 series white, and blue? models were purchased, Nos. hopper, a good place to start 79500-79799, and in 1977 the is with an Athearn #140-5300 ANSWER: Yes. According to our series was completed with the hopper car, approximate cost records, the Friscos addition of 200 cars, Nos. $5.00. A close match for contribution to the 79800-79999. paint color is Floquil Reefer celebration of the nations Of the 1,000 cars purchased Gray #270-110012 mixed with a 1976 bicentennial was four by the Frisco, 958 were still little Floquil Reefer White cabooses painted in assorted in service in 1980 at the time #270-110011. Herald King variations of a red, white, of the Frisco/BN merger, as decal set #H-463 will work and blue livery. As early as follows: nice for the lettering. Since 1973, the Springfield Paint the Frisco owned 1,000 of Shop was experimenting with 79000-79499 469 units these cars, you might want to various color combinations. 79500-79799 293 units model several for your layout. The end result was two 1200 79800-79999 196 units Good luck! series units and two 1700 shop built models in the patriotic paint scheme. No. 1240 was painted light blue with a red cupola and two narrow white stripes running diagonal on each side. The trucks, steps, and platforms were also light blue, and the railings, ladders, and grab irons were white. Nos. 1250 and 1700 were painted dark blue with a red cupola and two wide white stripes running diagonal on each side. The trucks, steps, and platforms were also dark blue and the railings, ladders, (1250 only) and grab irons were white. No. 1776, its actual serial number, was the companys main contribution to the R.E. Napper photo bicentennial celebration. It was painted with wide red, white, and blue diagonal pine floor. It was equipped stripes along its sides and with twenty-two seats. When top. Each side of the car had first placed into service, thirteen stars commemorating Q #2106 was assigned to the the thirteen original states. PART 12 seventy-six mile, four hour, Six stars ran down the middle run between Dallas and of the blue stripe and seven Under the terms of a Sherman, TX. down the middle of the red September 15, 1911 Conditional According to existing section. A red and white Sale Agreement between the records, during the 1913-16 Frisco coonskin logo was Guaranty Trust Co. of reorganization, the car was positioned on the front end and the New Orleans, Texas, "sold" to the New Orleans, roof edge, an American flag and Mexico Railroad Co., four Texas, and Mexico Railroad Co. was located under each of the motor cars (Nos. 2106-2109) and on March 1, 1916, "sold" first side windows on the were delivered to the Frisco back to the Frisco. Chances front end, and a large replica beginning in March, 1912. are the car itself never was of the great seal of the U.S. While purchased in the name of transferred to the N.O.T. M. was placed on each side under the Gulf Coast Lines company, property. It was simply the cupola. A white "1776" all four cars were initially "moved" on paper, because it number was located on all four assigned to the Friscos retained its original 2106 sides of the cupola and a 76-mile Dallas to Sherman, number. "FRISCO" was located on each Texas run as trains #7 #8 In September, 1932, the car side under the seal. The daily. was reconditioned and remained platforms and trucks were No. 2106, serial #3723, was in service until it was blue. The steps were white a 70° baggage-coach retired and scrapped in with blue tread plates, and combination with a center October, 1940.3 the railings were white. The vestibule entrance and a non- grab irons on the right side vestibule closed end. The all of the caboose were red and steel body was manufactured by the ones on the left were Wason, Model #10400, trucks by blue. The 1776 was used in ALCo, and the 175 H.P. conjunction with a Seaboard GM-16-A3 engine and 205D Coast Line U30-B engine, No. traction motors were built by 1776, on one of many rail G.E. The interior finish of exhibits that toured the the car was the standard country during 1976.t mahogany paneling with yellow

January 1, 1973 David Cash photo

May 20, 1973 David Cash photo Don Heiberger collection Down At The Depot

AMORY,

Approximately 611 miles southeast of City, MO, on the Birmingham Subdivision of the Southern Division, was located station No. C611 at Amory, MS. The history of railroading in Amory can be traced back to 1887, the year the Kansas City, Memphis, and Birmingham Railroad Co. completed the forty-one miles of between Tupelo and a point on the Mississippi- State line. While there is no record currently available describing the first passenger depot in Amory, it is known that in 1916, the year the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway CO. took control of the line, a new facility was built. RD. Conner photo The depot was a tile and stucco building approximately Because Amory was located service to Amory was 91 long and 38 wide. It was on both the Frisco main line discontinued. In the early divided into a baggage room, to Birmingham, AL, and 1970s, after an unsuccessful negro waiting room, 14x20 Pensacola, FL, it was served attempt to offer the building ticket office, and general by a number of passenger to the city for $1.00, it was (white) waiting room on the trains. In the 1920s, the torn down. The old Division northeast end. A news stand, station was served by six Office, located a short accessible to inside and daily trains, one daily motor distance from the Front Street outside business, was located car from Tupelo, and three depot site, was salvaged and at the northeast corner of the doodlebugs to Aberdeen. By now serves as the Amory City building. The depot sat on a 1930, service had been reduced concrete foundation, had a to four trains daily including concrete floor, and was the "Memphian" and the equipped with hot water heat "Sunnyland." Two motor cars The Frisco Family and electric lights. The roof operated daily to Columbus. design was flat, interior Between 1940 and 1964, ceilings were 12, and the three daily trains served the On Friday evening, November 6, walls and ceilings were Amory station including the 1931, radio station KWKH at finished with plaster. A "Sunnyland" Nos. 107-108 and Shreveport, LA, broadcast the unique feature of the depot the "Kansas City-Florida "History of The Frisco." This was two "porte cochere" on Special" Nos. 105-106. In is Part 6 of that broadcast. each end. The station had a 1965, service was reduced to brick platform with a concrete the "Southland" 101-102 and in "By now, you listeners to curb. December, 1967, passenger this broadcast, have undoubtedly said to yourselves: My, but those old time railroad builders were stickers. Already this company has been in receivership and reorganized five different times. "But listen to this: the new St. Louis San Francisco Railway Company entered upon a policy of expansion which far exceeded anything which had gone before it. A complete record of all the new lines built cannot be given here, and only the principal ones will be briefly mentioned. "The old Central division was extended in 1882 from PASSENGER. STATION Vinita to Tulsa on the north bank of the Arkansas River, a AMORY,MISS. distance of 65 miles. Previous to this, in March, 1880, a line, originally According to our records, 363-364 389-391 from the St. started in 1871, was completed the first Frisco Moguls Louis, Memphis, Southeastern from Peirce City to Wichita, arrived in 1886. Ten units Railroad Co. acquired by the Kansas, 218 miles long. An went into service that year, Frisco in 1907. extension of this line 103 seven of which were new miles in length, was then engines built by the Rogers 392-399 from the St. Louis built from Wichita to Locomotive Works at a cost of Gulf Railway Co. also acquired Ellsworth, Kansas, where $8,000.00 each (200-206), and in 1907. connection was made with the three 1876 Baldwin built units in inherited from the St. Louis, 365-368 from the Gulf, Texas, 1888. Salem, and Little Rock Western Railroad Co. "Another line from Monett, Railroad Co. (26-27 29). In acquired by the Frisco in MO to Ft. Smith, AR, which had 1887, the company acquired ten 1925. been started in July, 1880, additional engines (207-216) was opened on January 1, 1883, via the Kansas Midland Railway The last of the 2-6-0s, and, in the latter year, a Co. They were built that year Nos. 72 and 73, arrived with line 34 miles long was also by Baldwin at a cost of the purchase of the Jonesboro, constructed from Pacific to $9,000.00 each. Lake City, Eastern Railroad, St. Louis, MO. Heretofore, also in 1925. entrance to St. Louis had been made over the tracks of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, but with the construction into St. Louis, the Missouri Pacific agreement was discontinued. "An extension to Paris, Texas, started in July, 1886, was completed one year later, and connections were made at Paris with the Texas Pacific Railway and also with the Gulf, , Santa Fe.

To be continued...

THE WHYTE SYSTEM In the late 1800s, an engineer named Frederic M. Frisco photo Whyte developed a system for classifying the many types of Between 1888 and 1894, the Sixteen of the Frisco steam locomotives that were Frisco acquired thirty-seven Moguls were ultimately sold. being produced. His system additional 2-6-0s. Nos. 391-392 397 were sold was based on the total number Twenty-six of the engines were to an unknown source in June of wheels. The first number purchased new from Baldwin in and July, 1906. Likewise, in indicated the number of wheels 1888 (217-236) and 1894 July, 1915, No. 316 was also in the leading truck, the (249-253), and twelve were sold to ??? In the 1916 second number listed the purchased second-hand from the reorganization, seven 2-6-0s driving wheels, and the third Santa Fe. A.T. S.F. Nos. (309-311-312-314-322-336-346) number was for the wheels on 834-845 became S.L. S.F. Nos. were sold to the Gulf Coast the trailing axle. 237-248. In 1901, the 26-27 Lines New Iberia Northern This is the third in a 29 engines were removed from Railroad and became Nos. series of articles that will service and in 1902, the 200 40-46. In December, 1918, a profile the engine types of series 2-6-0s were renumbered Phipps Lumber Co. purchased the Whyte system and will to the 300 series. Thus, Nos. No. 347, and in June, 1935, include roster number series 200-253 became 300-353. the Cassville Exeter of Frisco locomotives for each Twenty-eight additional Railroad acquired #345. In type. engines were added to the March, 1937, the Santa Fe In 1866, the Central Frisco fleet of Moguls between purchased Nos. 354 and 357 and Railroad of New Jersey ordered 1902 and 1925, all of which renumbered them 2445 and 2446. the first 2-6-0 engine were second-hand units The last of the 2-6-0s on the produced in the United States. inherited from acquired lines, Frisco roster, #73, was sold For some unknown reason, it as follows: to the Delta Valley Southern was nicknamed the "Mogul," a Railroad, an Arkansas short name designation that was 354-362 from the Ft. Worth line, on September 19, 1945. unofficially assigned to all Rio Grande Railway Co. The last of the 300 series subsequent 2-6-0s in service acquired in 1901. units were Nos. 367 and 368, in the U.S., including those 1940.both scrapped in February, on the Frisco.