In late afternoon light in November, 1979, Saint Louis-San Francisco GP38-2 403 and a pair of SD45’s lead a piggyback train south through the triple diamonds in Carrollton, Texas. The Cotton Bel... (more)
On the northwest edge of Dallas, Gribble in 1979 is an area of swamps and gravel pits where a railfan is as likely to encounter a water moccasin as a train. But with a puff of exhaust this humid J... (more)
On a bright January morning in 1980, a matched set of Saint Louis-San Francisco GP40-2’s led by the 767 rumble across the Elm Fork of the Trinity River just north of Irving, Texas, with train 33... (more)
Just out of Lindenwood yard in Webster Groves, ten miles southwest of St. Louis, Frisco SD45 931 with U30B 841 and another SD45 set out westbound on March 22, 1975. SLSF was one of the first custo... (more)
Saint LouIs-San Francisco Train 139 has come down from Oklahoma on June 24, 1978, 68 cars, mostly grain hoppers, tank cars for the Gulf, seven empties and a caboose, all behind GP38-2 685. Rattlin... (more)
An eastbound Frisco freight heads for St Louis along the parallel Missouri Pacific near Eureka.
Frisco caboose 1260 trails behind SLSF 866 on an eastbound for St Louis along the parallel Missouri Pacific near Eureka.
Frisco SW1500 #330 at Memphis, TN
Frisco 1630 sits idle on this October 17th. It will be fired up again in 2016.
It looks abandoned, but it isn't! Project 1352 is raising the needed funds to move former St. Louis-San Francisco 2-8-2 No. 1352 from rural Taylorville, Illinois, to Cleveland, Ohio for restorati... (more)
In Birmingham, at least, it seemed like road power was often grubby, but switchers were generally kept quite clean. Maybe the road units had to get back to Springfield for 'real' washes.
Three Frisco Baldwin switchers, 212, 237 an 211 rumble into the servicing tracks at Kansas City, Mo. on May 29, 1965.
A 26-year-old Baldwin switcher was removing a new caboose from an inbound Frisco train at Kansas City, Mo. on Aug. 4, 1968.
A steam-boiler-equipped Geep for passenger service heads up three other Frisco Geeps at Kansas City, Mo. Note the steam line on front pilot.
Frisco 1630 lopes along past a farm in rural Union, Illinois.