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St. Louis–San Francisco Railway

January 09, 2023

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to April 17, 1980. At the end of 1970, it operated 4,547 miles (7,318 km) of road on 6,574 miles (10,580 km) of track, not including subsidiaries Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway and the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad; that year, it reported 12,795 million ton-miles of revenue freight and no passengers. It was purchased and absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980.[2] Despite its name, it never came close to San Francisco.

St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
Frisco system as of 1918; the Fort Worth and Rio Grande in central Texas was sold to the Santa Fe Railway in 1937
Overview
HeadquartersSpringfield, Missouri, U.S.[1]
Reporting markSLSF
LocaleAlabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas
Dates of operation1876; 147 years ago (1876)
–1980; 43 years ago (1980)
SuccessorBurlington Northern
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

History

 
Preserved wooden caboose on display in Missouri
 
Preserved Railway Express Agency car, along with Kiamichi EMD F7 slug No. SL1, at the Frisco Depot Museum in Hugo, Oklahoma

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway was incorporated in Missouri on September 7, 1876. It was formed from the Missouri Division and Central Division of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. This land grant line was one of two railroads (the other being the M-K-T) authorized to build across Indian Territory. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, interested in the A&P right of way across the Mojave Desert to California, took the road over until the larger road went bankrupt in 1893; the receivers retained the western right of way but divested the ATSF of the St. Louis–San Francisco mileage on the Great Plains. After bankruptcy, the Frisco emerged as the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, incorporated on June 29, 1896,[3][4] which also went bankrupt.

In 1903, Frisco executives engaged in negotiations to purchase large tracts of land in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana "up to the Orleans Parish line" as part of plans of "gigantic scope" to further the expansion of the company's rail lines and operations facilities across the state. As part of this plan, the executives proposed relocation of the residents of the historically Black community of Fazendeville to the much smaller, neighboring village of Versailles, which was described as a "settlement consist[ing] merely of a row of very small properties along a public road running at right angles from the river to the railroad track"; however, many of Fazendeville's residents resisted and then ultimately refused the railway's financial offers. According to one of the newspapers which reported on those plans, "The Frisco road cannot obtain title to the National Cemetery, but is after all the rest of the river front, and wants to cross the present public road practically at grade in many public places."[5]

On August 24, 1916, the company was reorganized as the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, though the line never went west of Texas, terminating more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from San Francisco.

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway had two main lines: St. Louis–Tulsa–Oklahoma City-Floydada, Texas, and Kansas City–Memphis–Birmingham. The junction of the two lines was in Springfield, Missouri, home to the company's main shop facility and headquarters. Other lines included:

From March 1917 through January 1959, the Frisco, in a joint venture with the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, operated the Texas Special. This luxurious train, a streamliner from 1947, ran from St. Louis to Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, and San Antonio, Texas.

The Frisco merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad on November 21, 1980.[2]

The city of Frisco, Texas, was named after the railroad and uses the former railroad's logo as its own logo. The logo is modeled after a stretched-out raccoon skin[6][7] (giving rise to Frisco High School's mascot, the Fighting Raccoons).

Passenger trains

 
The Sunnyland at Birmingham Alabama's Union Station on April 15, 1963

While the Texas Special may be the most famous passenger train operated by Frisco, it was just one of a fleet of named trains. These included:

  • Black Gold (a joint Frisco-Katy operation inaugurated between Tulsa and Houston on January 23, 1938 and continuing until January 18, 1960)[8]
  • The Bluebonnet (St. Louis to San Antonio—with through service by M-K-T-- leaving early afternoon, arriving Dallas/Ft. Worth the next morning, and arriving San Antonio late afternoon.)[9][10]
  • Chadwick Flyer (Branch line from Springfield to Chadwick, Missouri; discontinued by March 1933)[11]
  • Firefly (at various times serving St. Louis, Kansas City, Fort Scott, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City.[12] This was Frisco’s first streamliner, and the first streamliner to be built in the southwest, the streamline modifications being done by Frisco itself)[12]
  • General Wood (Originally between St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri from May 1941; truncated in June 1942 to service between St. Louis and Newburg, Missouri; and, discontinued entirely in the fall of 1946.)[13]
  • Governor (Joplin-Tulsa-Oklahoma City)[14]
  • Kansas City–Florida Special (Kansas City–Jacksonville)
  • Kansas Limited (St. Louis-Wichita-Ellsworth)[14]
  • Kansas Mail (St. Louis-Wichita)[14]
  • Memphian (St. Louis–Memphis)
  • Memphis Passenger (St. Louis–Memphis)[14]
  • Meteor (St. Louis–Tulsa-Oklahoma City by night with connecting train Monett-Fort Smith-Paris, TX)
  • Oil Fields Special (Kansas City-Tulsa-Dallas-Ft. Worth, with through service to Houston)[14]
  • Oklahoman (Once connected Kansas City–Tulsa but was later rerouted between St. Louis–Oklahoma City)
  • Southland (Kansas City–Birmingham) (truncated successor to the Kansas City–Florida Special)
  • Southwest Limited (St. Louis-Tulsa-Oklahoma City-Lawton)[14]
  • St. Louis-Memphis Limited (St. Louis-Memphis-Birmingham)[14]
  • Sunnyland (Kansas City/St. Louis–Atlanta/Pensacola/New Orleans)
  • Tulsa Texan (a joint Frisco-Katy operation inaugurated between Tulsa and Houston in 1937, and phased out between March and July 1940)[8]
  • Texas Flash (Tulsa-Sherman-Dallas by day)
  • Texokla Limited (St. Louis-Springfield-Dallas)[14]
  • Texas Limited (St. Louis-Springfield-Dallas, with through service to Houston-Galveston)[14]
  • Texas Special (St. Louis-Springfield-Dallas-Ft. Worth, with through service to Austin-San Antonio)[14]
  • Will Rogers (St. Louis–Oklahoma City/Wichita by day, 1936-1965; with through service northbound out of St. Louis to Chicago via the Alton Railroad or Wabash Railroad)[10]

Former Frisco lines today

 
1899 poster showing a boy and a girl in a SLSF waiting room

The core of the former Frisco system continues to be operated by BNSF Railway as high-density mainlines. Other secondary and branchlines have been sold to shortline operators or have been abandoned altogether.

Surviving equipment

Steam locomotives

  • Frisco 73, a 2-6-0 “Mogul” built by Baldwin in 1916.[15] It has 19-inch cylinders and 49.5-inch driving wheels.[15] Numbered as 34 when Frisco acquired its owner, the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad in 1925, the locomotive was renumbered to 73 and kept by the Frisco until sold on September 19, 1945, to the Delta Valley and Southern Railway, a short line operator in northeast Arkansas.[15] It is preserved on the Lee Wesson Plantation in Victoria, Arkansas[16] under the Delta Valley & Southern Locomotive No. 73 name with no visible numbers on the cab or tender,[17] but with the original Frisco raccoon-skin-shaped number board and “73” on its nose.[15]
  • Frisco 76 and Frisco 77, 2-8-0 Consolidation-type engines built as Numbers 40 and 41 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in December, 1920 for the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad.[18] When that line became part of the Frisco, the locomotives were re-numbered as 76 and 77.[18] After performing freight service for years, both engines were sold in 1947 to the Mississippian Railway where they retained the Frisco numbers.[18] Following several further changes in ownership for each engine,[18][19] #76 is now owned by the Oakland B&O Museum in Oakland, Maryland, where it has been renumbered and relettered as the Baltimore & Ohio 476,[20][21] and #77 is now with Alberta Prairie Railway in Stettler, Alberta where it pulls excursion trains and has been renumbered back to 41.[19]
  • Frisco 1351, built in 1912 as a 2-8-0 Consolidation (Frisco 1313), and converted by Frisco to a 2-8-2 Mikado in November 1943.[22] Now on static display in Collierville, Tennessee.[23]
  • Frisco 1352, built by ALCO in 1912 as a 2-8-0 Consolidation (Frisco 1321), and converted by Frisco in June 1944 to a 2-8-2 Mikado.[24] Disassembled in Taylorville, Illinois; awaiting restoration to operating condition.[25]
  • Frisco 1355, built by ALCO in 1912 as a 2-8-0 Consolidation (Frisco 1318), and converted in October 1945[24] to a 2-8-2 Mikado in Frisco's main shops in Springfield.[26] Given that the 1350-1356 series were both the last steam locomotives rebuilt by Frisco and the last Mikados built anywhere in the United States, No. 1355 is the last surviving.[24] Following refurbishment by Frisco, it was donated to the City of Pensacola and moved to a location on Garden Street in that city in March 1957,[27] near the site of the SLSF passenger depot demolished in 1967.[28] Additional refurbishment was done by the Naval Brig Staff of the Pensacola Naval Air Station in late 1991 and early 1992.[27]
  • Frisco 1501, one of thirty 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotives purchased from Baldwin for freight and passenger service.[29] The 1500 series, all oil-burners, arrived in three batches, being Nos. 1500-1514 in the spring of 1923, Nos. 1515-1519 in 1925, and Nos. 1520-1529 in the summer of 1926.[30] No. 1501 has been on static display in Schuman Park, Rolla, MO since 1955. Several parts from Frisco 1501 were donated to Frisco 1522 to make/keep 1522 operational. Video
  • Frisco 1519, a Baldwin 4-8-2 Mountain-type delivered in 1925,[29] now at the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma in Enid, Oklahoma.[31][32][33]
  • Frisco 1522, a Baldwin 4-8-2 Mountain-type delivered in 1926.[29] It was at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri until 1988, when it began pulling excursions. In 2002, it was returned to the Museum of Transportation.[34]
  • Frisco 1526, a Baldwin 4-8-2 Mountain-type delivered in 1926,[29] located at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma.[35][33]
  • Frisco 1527, a Baldwin 4-8-2 Mountain-type delivered in 1926.[29] On static display in Langan Park in Mobile, Alabama[36] since 1964.
  • Frisco 1529, a Baldwin 4-8-2 Mountain-type, delivered in 1926.[29] The locomotive pulled a train carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934, and was eventually the last steam engine to make a passenger run for Frisco. Now on static display in Frisco Park in Amory, Mississippi.[33]
  • Frisco 1615 and the other locomotives in Frisco-series 1600 were 2-10-0 Russian locomotive class Ye (Russian Decapods) with a 5’ gauge built for the Tsarist government in Russia.[29] When that government was overthrown before delivery, the units were rebuilt as standard-gauge locomotives (by fitting extra-wide tires on the wheels)[37] and sold through the United States Railroad Administration to American railways.[29] Frisco acquired 20 of the units (17 directly from the government, 3 from other companies), which became Nos. 1613 to 1632.[38] Of these, Nos. 1615, 1621, 1625, 1630 and 1632, all coal-burning, were later sold in the 1951 timeframe to Eagle-Picher and used to haul lead and zinc from the Picher Field to the E-P mill in Miami, Oklahoma.[38][39] All these units were placed in storage by 1957 when that operation was closed.[38] By 1964, homes were being sought for all of these engines.[38] Frisco 1615, built in 1917 as part of Frisco’s first batch of engines (Nos. 1613-1623) which were constructed by ALCO’s Richmond Locomotive Works in the fall of 1917 and spring of 1918, was acquired by the City of Altus, Oklahoma, on October 22, 1967, and remains on static display there.[38][39]
  • Frisco 1621 is another 2-10-0 Russian Decapod, built in 1918. On static display at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri.[40]
  • Frisco 1625 is another 2-10-0 Russian Decapod, built in 1918 at ALCO's Schenectady Locomotive Works.[38] Now on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas.[41]
  • Frisco 1630 is another 2-10-0 Russian Decapod, part of Frisco's batch (Nos. 1626-1632) which were all constructed by Baldwin in 1918.[38] It has been in excursion service at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, since 1967, and is considered by the museum as their most famous locomotive.[42]
  • Frisco 1632 is another 1918 Baldwin 2-10-0 Russian Decapod. It was donated to the Smoky Hill Railway and Historical Society in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1964, and was moved in 1991 to the Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad in Belton, Missouri, where it is on static display.[38][43]
  • Frisco 3695 is a Frisco-series 3600 locomotive, which were 0-6-0 switch engines built between August, 1883, and July, 1906.[44] Ninety-five in number, the only survivor is No. 3695, built in July, 1906 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and serving Frisco thirty-one years before being sold to the Scullin Steel Company and renumbered No. 95.[44][45] The engine was donated in 1956 and is on display at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.[45]
  • Frisco 3749 is a Frisco-series 3700 locomotive, which was a class of forty-six 0-6-0 switch engines built between 1906 and 1910.[46] However, another source says No. 3749 in particular was built in 1913, by the Baldwin Locomotive Works.[47] Retired from Frisco service in 1952, the engine was leased to the Atmore Prison Farm in Atmore, Alabama, before being used in 1956 as a prop in an MGM movie, The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne.[46] After later sitting idle for a number of years and being sold for scrap, the engine was moved to the Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida, as a static display.[46] In 2012 it was acquired and put on display by the Florida Railroad Museum.[47]
  • Frisco 4003, a coal-burning 2-8-2 Mikado built in 1919 by Lima and on static display at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas. See Frisco 4003
  • Frisco 4018, a coal-burning 2-8-2 Mikado built in 1919 by Lima which is on static display at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama.[48] This locomotive has the distinction of being the last Frisco steam locomotive in regular service, completing its final run (a five-mile trek from Bessemer to Birmingham, Alabama) on February 29, 1952.[49]
  • Frisco 4500, a 4-8-4 oil-fired Northern-type built in 1942,[50] on static display in Tulsa, Oklahoma, being a locomotive which pulled the Frisco's crack Meteor passenger train.[51]
  • Frisco 4501, an oil-fired 4-8-4[50] on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas,[41] also a former Meteor locomotive.
  • Frisco 4516, 4-8-4 Northern-type coal-fired locomotive[50] on static display at Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, Missouri, also known as "Old Smokie."[52]
  • Frisco 4524, another wartime 4500-series 4-8-4 coal-fired Northern-type,[50] donated to Springfield, Missouri in November 1954,[53] now on static display at the Railroad Historical Museum inside Grant Beach Park in Springfield, and wearing the "Frisco Faster Freight" paint scheme.[54][55] Being the last engine of the last group of steam locomotives that Frisco purchased, this engine has the distinction of being the last steam locomotive built for the Frisco.[50]

Diesel locomotives

  • Frisco 200, a Baldwin VO-1000 switcher and Frisco’s very first diesel locomotive of any kind, was sold to the Navy, which in 2015 sold it to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which has it stored out of service.[56] The U.S. Navy acquired a number of the Frisco VO-1000 diesels, reportedly including Numbers 200-203 and 205-206.[57] Other units may still be in use by the Navy, or may have been sold to other parties.[57]

Buildings and structures

Multiple surviving buildings, structures and locations associated with the Frisco are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Building in Joplin, Missouri, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Depot in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Depot in Comanche, Texas, the Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Retention Pond, and the Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank. Frisco Lake, a small lake in Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, was named for and owned by the Frisco.[61] The Frisco Building, being the former Frisco headquarters in Springfield built in 1910 and now known as the Landmark Building, is an official City of Springfield counsel-approved landmark.[62][63] The Frisco Bridge at Memphis was the first bridge over the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, and the third longest bridge in the world at the time of its dedication on May 12, 1892;[64] it is now listed as an National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

4-4-0s

Locomotives with 4-4-0 wheel arrangements, known as the "American" type because they were considered for many years to be the standard in American locomotives, originally served Frisco in great numbers.[65] In July, 1903, the Frisco had 159 4-4-0's in service, built by twenty-five different companies.[65] Frisco renumbered its units in that year, assigning the 4-4-0's either numbers between 1-299 (140 units), or 2200-series numbers (19 units).[65] The oldest Frisco 4-4-0 locomotive was No. 47, built in 1869 by Hinkley Locomotive Works.[65] The last serving 4-4-0's were retired in 1951.

4-6-0s

Even more numerous on the Frisco were 4-6-0 “Ten-wheelers.”[66] The first such engines entered the Frisco system in 1870.[66] By 1903, Frisco had a fleet of 430 such locomotives, which were renumbered that year into seven class series, using 400, 500, 600, 700, 1100, 1400, and 2600-series numbers.[66] The last 4-6-0's on the Frisco roster were the 1400 series, with the last engine to be retired from service being #1409, dismantled and sold for scrap in November, 1951.[66]

Doodlebugs

Frisco-series 2100 equipment consisted of self-propelled rail motor-cars, mostly gas-electric models,[67] with a few gas-mechanical models given 3000-series numbers.[68][69][70] These railway vehicles were commonly known as “Doodlebugs” for their insect-like appearance and the slow speeds at which they would doddle or "doodle" down the tracks.[67] These were used to service various low-volume branch lines in the Frisco organization.[67][71] An initial order for ten was placed in 1910, with seven more arriving by 1913, putting Frisco in the forefront of gas-electric operation at that time.[67] The initial batch, numbered 2100 to 2109, included nine baggage-coach combinations, as well as one baggage-mail-coach unit.[67] Frisco's peak year for motor-car mileage was 1931, and its fleet at that time included twenty-three gas-electrics, five gas-mechanical cars, four trailer coaches, and six mail-baggage units.[67] The final Frisco run of a Doodlebug was on November 8, 1953, when No. 2128 traveled from Ardmore, Oklahoma, for the four hour trip to Hugo, Oklahoma.[67]

Frisco Series 4300 and 4400

Two series of Frisco locomotives not surviving were Frisco 4300s and 4400s. These were all 4-8-2 units assembled by Frisco itself in the late 1930s to the early 1940s from other locomotives. Eleven, being units 4300 through 4310, were built in 1936 and 1937 from used 2-10-2 parts. They had 27 x 30 cylinders, 70″ drivers, a boiler pressure of 250 psi, and a tractive effort of 66,400 lbs, weighing 431,110 pounds. Another twenty-three 4-8-2s were built using the boilers from 2-10-2s between 1939 and 1942. Units 4400 through 4412 were oil-burning, while units 4413 through 4422 burned coal. These locomotives had 29 x 32 cylinders, 70″ drivers, a boiler pressure of 210 psi, and a tractive effort of 68,600 lbs. Weighing in at 449,760 pounds, they were the heaviest Mountain-type locomotives ever built.[33]

Dieselization

Frisco’s first acquisition of diesel locomotives came in November 1941, when the line received five Baldwin VO-1000 switchers of a thousand-horsepower each.[72][73] Frisco started a serious dieselization program in 1947, which took about five years.[74] When the period of steam power ended for Frisco in February, 1952 with the last run of steam engine 4018, the Frisco’s diesel fleet included seventeen 2,250-HP passenger, six 2,000-HP passenger, twelve 1,500-HP combination freight and passenger, one hundred and twenty-three 1,500-HP freight, one hundred and thirty-three 1,500-HP general purpose, eleven 1,000-HP general purpose, and one hundred and five yard-switcher units, for a total of 407 diesel locomotives.[75] At that time, the Frisco became the largest Class I railroad in the U.S. to be operating strictly with diesel power.[74]

The Frisco gave names to its 2000-series diesel passenger locomotives, EMD E7 and (mostly) EMD E8 units,[76] using the theme of famous horses.[77] These included racehorses such as Gallant Fox (#2011), Sea Biscuit (#2013), and Citation (#2016).[77] However, other horses also made the list: for instance, when #2022 was rebuilt after a wreck, it was given the name of Champion, after ex-Frisco-employee Gene Autry’s trusty steed in the movies.[77]

Frisco Silver Dollar Line

The amusement park Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, runs multiple diesel-fired or heating oil-fired steam trains around the park on its 2-foot-gauge rail line, known as the Frisco Silver Dollar Line. The Frisco operated in that part of the country, and supplied construction help to the Park, along with the rails and ties, back when this line was being built in 1962. Perhaps for these reasons, the trains sport the Frisco name and logo. However, this was never an actual Frisco rail line, and the steam locomotives started life as industrial engines on German intraplant railroads, not as actual rolling stock on the Frisco.[78]

Predecessors

Main article: List of predecessors of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway

The following companies were predecessors of the Frisco:

Acquisitions

 
Frisco 1522 has been preserved and restored. In this picture, the locomotive is sitting in Arkansas City, Kansas.

The following railroads were acquired or merged into the Frisco:

Asset absorptions

The following is a list of partial or full asset absorptions, many times through bankruptcy courts or creditors. In some cases the Frisco was a creditor. Assets can include mineral rights, property, track and right of way, trains, bonds, mortgages, etc.

 
Frisco 1621 on display at the National Museum of Transportation outside St. Louis, Missouri

See also

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External links

  • Frisco.org - St. Louis-San Francisco Railway

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.
  • "100 Years of Service". 1960. Retrieved April 20, 2006.
  • Frisco.org – Official Preservation Site
  • Frisco Archive – Photos and documents relating to the Frisco Railroad
  • The Frisco: A Look Back at the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (historical information at the Springfield-Greene County Library District)
  • Mike Condren's Frisco Railroad Homepage
  • The Frisco Railroad in Kansas
  • Western Historical Manuscript Collection—Rolla—University of Missouri-Rolla "Guide to the Historical Records of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company" Retrieved September 16, 2005
  • "The Frisco in photographs," Classic Trains magazine, January 18, 2001, accessed 13 February 2020. Includes photos and system map.
  • "Frisco System," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed 5 April 2011.

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louis, francisco, railway, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, . This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources St Louis San Francisco Railway news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message The St Louis San Francisco Railway reporting mark SLSF commonly known as the Frisco was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to April 17 1980 At the end of 1970 it operated 4 547 miles 7 318 km of road on 6 574 miles 10 580 km of track not including subsidiaries Quanah Acme and Pacific Railway and the Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railroad that year it reported 12 795 million ton miles of revenue freight and no passengers It was purchased and absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980 2 Despite its name it never came close to San Francisco St Louis San Francisco RailwayFrisco system as of 1918 the Fort Worth and Rio Grande in central Texas was sold to the Santa Fe Railway in 1937OverviewHeadquartersSpringfield Missouri U S 1 Reporting markSLSFLocaleAlabama Arkansas Florida Kansas Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Tennessee TexasDates of operation1876 147 years ago 1876 1980 43 years ago 1980 SuccessorBurlington NorthernTechnicalTrack gauge4 ft 8 1 2 in 1 435 mm standard gauge Contents 1 History 2 Passenger trains 3 Former Frisco lines today 4 Surviving equipment 4 1 Steam locomotives 4 2 Diesel locomotives 4 3 Buildings and structures 5 4 4 0s 6 4 6 0s 7 Doodlebugs 8 Frisco Series 4300 and 4400 9 Dieselization 10 Frisco Silver Dollar Line 11 Predecessors 12 Acquisitions 12 1 Asset absorptions 13 See also 14 References 15 External links 16 External linksHistory Edit Preserved wooden caboose on display in Missouri Preserved Railway Express Agency car along with Kiamichi EMD F7 slug No SL1 at the Frisco Depot Museum in Hugo Oklahoma The St Louis San Francisco Railway was incorporated in Missouri on September 7 1876 It was formed from the Missouri Division and Central Division of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad This land grant line was one of two railroads the other being the M K T authorized to build across Indian Territory The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad interested in the A amp P right of way across the Mojave Desert to California took the road over until the larger road went bankrupt in 1893 the receivers retained the western right of way but divested the ATSF of the St Louis San Francisco mileage on the Great Plains After bankruptcy the Frisco emerged as the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad incorporated on June 29 1896 3 4 which also went bankrupt In 1903 Frisco executives engaged in negotiations to purchase large tracts of land in St Bernard Parish Louisiana up to the Orleans Parish line as part of plans of gigantic scope to further the expansion of the company s rail lines and operations facilities across the state As part of this plan the executives proposed relocation of the residents of the historically Black community of Fazendeville to the much smaller neighboring village of Versailles which was described as a settlement consist ing merely of a row of very small properties along a public road running at right angles from the river to the railroad track however many of Fazendeville s residents resisted and then ultimately refused the railway s financial offers According to one of the newspapers which reported on those plans The Frisco road cannot obtain title to the National Cemetery but is after all the rest of the river front and wants to cross the present public road practically at grade in many public places 5 On August 24 1916 the company was reorganized as the St Louis San Francisco Railway though the line never went west of Texas terminating more than 1 000 miles 1 600 km from San Francisco The St Louis San Francisco Railway had two main lines St Louis Tulsa Oklahoma City Floydada Texas and Kansas City Memphis Birmingham The junction of the two lines was in Springfield Missouri home to the company s main shop facility and headquarters Other lines included Springfield Kansas City via Clinton Missouri Monett Missouri Pierce City Wichita Kansas Monett Missouri Hugo Oklahoma Paris Texas St Louis River Junction Arkansas Memphis Tennessee Tulsa Oklahoma Dallas Texas Tulsa Oklahoma Avard Oklahoma Lakeside Oklahoma Hugo Oklahoma Hope Arkansas Amory Mississippi Pensacola FloridaFrom March 1917 through January 1959 the Frisco in a joint venture with the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad operated the Texas Special This luxurious train a streamliner from 1947 ran from St Louis to Dallas Texas Fort Worth Texas and San Antonio Texas The Frisco merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad on November 21 1980 2 The city of Frisco Texas was named after the railroad and uses the former railroad s logo as its own logo The logo is modeled after a stretched out raccoon skin 6 7 giving rise to Frisco High School s mascot the Fighting Raccoons Passenger trains Edit The Sunnyland at Birmingham Alabama s Union Station on April 15 1963 While the Texas Special may be the most famous passenger train operated by Frisco it was just one of a fleet of named trains These included Black Gold a joint Frisco Katy operation inaugurated between Tulsa and Houston on January 23 1938 and continuing until January 18 1960 8 The Bluebonnet St Louis to San Antonio with through service by M K T leaving early afternoon arriving Dallas Ft Worth the next morning and arriving San Antonio late afternoon 9 10 Chadwick Flyer Branch line from Springfield to Chadwick Missouri discontinued by March 1933 11 Firefly at various times serving St Louis Kansas City Fort Scott Tulsa and Oklahoma City 12 This was Frisco s first streamliner and the first streamliner to be built in the southwest the streamline modifications being done by Frisco itself 12 General Wood Originally between St Louis and Springfield Missouri from May 1941 truncated in June 1942 to service between St Louis and Newburg Missouri and discontinued entirely in the fall of 1946 13 Governor Joplin Tulsa Oklahoma City 14 Kansas City Florida Special Kansas City Jacksonville Kansas Limited St Louis Wichita Ellsworth 14 Kansas Mail St Louis Wichita 14 Memphian St Louis Memphis Memphis Passenger St Louis Memphis 14 Meteor St Louis Tulsa Oklahoma City by night with connecting train Monett Fort Smith Paris TX Oil Fields Special Kansas City Tulsa Dallas Ft Worth with through service to Houston 14 Oklahoman Once connected Kansas City Tulsa but was later rerouted between St Louis Oklahoma City Southland Kansas City Birmingham truncated successor to the Kansas City Florida Special Southwest Limited St Louis Tulsa Oklahoma City Lawton 14 St Louis Memphis Limited St Louis Memphis Birmingham 14 Sunnyland Kansas City St Louis Atlanta Pensacola New Orleans Tulsa Texan a joint Frisco Katy operation inaugurated between Tulsa and Houston in 1937 and phased out between March and July 1940 8 Texas Flash Tulsa Sherman Dallas by day Texokla Limited St Louis Springfield Dallas 14 Texas Limited St Louis Springfield Dallas with through service to Houston Galveston 14 Texas Special St Louis Springfield Dallas Ft Worth with through service to Austin San Antonio 14 Will Rogers St Louis Oklahoma City Wichita by day 1936 1965 with through service northbound out of St Louis to Chicago via the Alton Railroad or Wabash Railroad 10 Former Frisco lines today Edit 1899 poster showing a boy and a girl in a SLSF waiting room The core of the former Frisco system continues to be operated by BNSF Railway as high density mainlines Other secondary and branchlines have been sold to shortline operators or have been abandoned altogether Kansas City Springfield Memphis Birmingham Operated by BNSF St Louis Springfield Tulsa Dallas Operated by BNSF Fort Scott Kansas to Afton Oklahoma Operated by BNSF St Louis to Memphis Tennessee Operated by BNSF Tulsa Oklahoma to Avard Oklahoma Operated by BNSF Fredonia Kansas to Cherryvale Kansas to Columbus Kansas Operated by South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad Cherokee Kansas to Pittsburg Kansas Operated by South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad Fredonia Kansas to Ellsworth Kansas Abandoned Cherokee Kansas to Cherryvale Kansas Abandoned Monett Missouri to Fort Smith Arkansas Operated by Arkansas and Missouri Railroad Lakeside Oklahoma to Hope Arkansas Operated by Kiamichi Railroad Genesee amp Wyoming Inc Tulsa Oklahoma Sapulpa to Oklahoma City Oklahoma Operated by Stillwater Central Railroad Oklahoma City to Snyder Oklahoma Operated by Stillwater Central Railroad Snyder Oklahoma Long Siding to Quanah Texas Operated by BNSF Enid Oklahoma to Frederick Oklahoma Operated by Grainbelt Farmrail Amory Mississippi to Pensacola Florida Operated by Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway RailAmerica Springfield to Kansas City via Clinton two routes Abandoned Monett Pierce City to Carthage Missouri Out of service Carthage Missouri to Wichita Kansas Mostly abandoned Chaffee Missouri to Poplar Bluff Missouri to Hoxie Arkansas Hoxie Sub AbandonedSurviving equipment EditSteam locomotives Edit Frisco 73 a 2 6 0 Mogul built by Baldwin in 1916 15 It has 19 inch cylinders and 49 5 inch driving wheels 15 Numbered as 34 when Frisco acquired its owner the Jonesboro Lake City and Eastern Railroad in 1925 the locomotive was renumbered to 73 and kept by the Frisco until sold on September 19 1945 to the Delta Valley and Southern Railway a short line operator in northeast Arkansas 15 It is preserved on the Lee Wesson Plantation in Victoria Arkansas 16 under the Delta Valley amp Southern Locomotive No 73 name with no visible numbers on the cab or tender 17 but with the original Frisco raccoon skin shaped number board and 73 on its nose 15 Frisco 76 and Frisco 77 2 8 0 Consolidation type engines built as Numbers 40 and 41 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in December 1920 for the Jonesboro Lake City and Eastern Railroad 18 When that line became part of the Frisco the locomotives were re numbered as 76 and 77 18 After performing freight service for years both engines were sold in 1947 to the Mississippian Railway where they retained the Frisco numbers 18 Following several further changes in ownership for each engine 18 19 76 is now owned by the Oakland B amp O Museum in Oakland Maryland where it has been renumbered and relettered as the Baltimore amp Ohio 476 20 21 and 77 is now with Alberta Prairie Railway in Stettler Alberta where it pulls excursion trains and has been renumbered back to 41 19 Frisco 1351 built in 1912 as a 2 8 0 Consolidation Frisco 1313 and converted by Frisco to a 2 8 2 Mikado in November 1943 22 Now on static display in Collierville Tennessee 23 Frisco 1352 built by ALCO in 1912 as a 2 8 0 Consolidation Frisco 1321 and converted by Frisco in June 1944 to a 2 8 2 Mikado 24 Disassembled in Taylorville Illinois awaiting restoration to operating condition 25 Frisco 1355 built by ALCO in 1912 as a 2 8 0 Consolidation Frisco 1318 and converted in October 1945 24 to a 2 8 2 Mikado in Frisco s main shops in Springfield 26 Given that the 1350 1356 series were both the last steam locomotives rebuilt by Frisco and the last Mikados built anywhere in the United States No 1355 is the last surviving 24 Following refurbishment by Frisco it was donated to the City of Pensacola and moved to a location on Garden Street in that city in March 1957 27 near the site of the SLSF passenger depot demolished in 1967 28 Additional refurbishment was done by the Naval Brig Staff of the Pensacola Naval Air Station in late 1991 and early 1992 27 Frisco 1501 one of thirty 4 8 2 Mountain type locomotives purchased from Baldwin for freight and passenger service 29 The 1500 series all oil burners arrived in three batches being Nos 1500 1514 in the spring of 1923 Nos 1515 1519 in 1925 and Nos 1520 1529 in the summer of 1926 30 No 1501 has been on static display in Schuman Park Rolla MO since 1955 Several parts from Frisco 1501 were donated to Frisco 1522 to make keep 1522 operational Video Frisco 1519 a Baldwin 4 8 2 Mountain type delivered in 1925 29 now at the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma in Enid Oklahoma 31 32 33 Frisco 1522 a Baldwin 4 8 2 Mountain type delivered in 1926 29 It was at the National Museum of Transportation in St Louis Missouri until 1988 when it began pulling excursions In 2002 it was returned to the Museum of Transportation 34 Frisco 1526 a Baldwin 4 8 2 Mountain type delivered in 1926 29 located at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton Oklahoma 35 33 Frisco 1527 a Baldwin 4 8 2 Mountain type delivered in 1926 29 On static display in Langan Park in Mobile Alabama 36 since 1964 Frisco 1529 a Baldwin 4 8 2 Mountain type delivered in 1926 29 The locomotive pulled a train carrying President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1934 and was eventually the last steam engine to make a passenger run for Frisco Now on static display in Frisco Park in Amory Mississippi 33 Frisco 1615 and the other locomotives in Frisco series 1600 were 2 10 0 Russian locomotive class Ye Russian Decapods with a 5 gauge built for the Tsarist government in Russia 29 When that government was overthrown before delivery the units were rebuilt as standard gauge locomotives by fitting extra wide tires on the wheels 37 and sold through the United States Railroad Administration to American railways 29 Frisco acquired 20 of the units 17 directly from the government 3 from other companies which became Nos 1613 to 1632 38 Of these Nos 1615 1621 1625 1630 and 1632 all coal burning were later sold in the 1951 timeframe to Eagle Picher and used to haul lead and zinc from the Picher Field to the E P mill in Miami Oklahoma 38 39 All these units were placed in storage by 1957 when that operation was closed 38 By 1964 homes were being sought for all of these engines 38 Frisco 1615 built in 1917 as part of Frisco s first batch of engines Nos 1613 1623 which were constructed by ALCO s Richmond Locomotive Works in the fall of 1917 and spring of 1918 was acquired by the City of Altus Oklahoma on October 22 1967 and remains on static display there 38 39 Frisco 1621 is another 2 10 0 Russian Decapod built in 1918 On static display at the National Museum of Transportation in St Louis Missouri 40 Frisco 1625 is another 2 10 0 Russian Decapod built in 1918 at ALCO s Schenectady Locomotive Works 38 Now on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco Texas 41 Frisco 1630 is another 2 10 0 Russian Decapod part of Frisco s batch Nos 1626 1632 which were all constructed by Baldwin in 1918 38 It has been in excursion service at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois since 1967 and is considered by the museum as their most famous locomotive 42 Frisco 1632 is another 1918 Baldwin 2 10 0 Russian Decapod It was donated to the Smoky Hill Railway and Historical Society in Ottawa Kansas in 1964 and was moved in 1991 to the Belton Grandview and Kansas City Railroad in Belton Missouri where it is on static display 38 43 Frisco 3695 is a Frisco series 3600 locomotive which were 0 6 0 switch engines built between August 1883 and July 1906 44 Ninety five in number the only survivor is No 3695 built in July 1906 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and serving Frisco thirty one years before being sold to the Scullin Steel Company and renumbered No 95 44 45 The engine was donated in 1956 and is on display at the National Museum of Transportation in St Louis 45 Frisco 3749 is a Frisco series 3700 locomotive which was a class of forty six 0 6 0 switch engines built between 1906 and 1910 46 However another source says No 3749 in particular was built in 1913 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works 47 Retired from Frisco service in 1952 the engine was leased to the Atmore Prison Farm in Atmore Alabama before being used in 1956 as a prop in an MGM movie The Wings of Eagles starring John Wayne 46 After later sitting idle for a number of years and being sold for scrap the engine was moved to the Church Street Station in Orlando Florida as a static display 46 In 2012 it was acquired and put on display by the Florida Railroad Museum 47 Frisco 4003 a coal burning 2 8 2 Mikado built in 1919 by Lima and on static display at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum in Fort Smith Arkansas See Frisco 4003 Frisco 4018 a coal burning 2 8 2 Mikado built in 1919 by Lima which is on static display at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham Alabama 48 This locomotive has the distinction of being the last Frisco steam locomotive in regular service completing its final run a five mile trek from Bessemer to Birmingham Alabama on February 29 1952 49 Frisco 4500 a 4 8 4 oil fired Northern type built in 1942 50 on static display in Tulsa Oklahoma being a locomotive which pulled the Frisco s crack Meteor passenger train 51 Frisco 4501 an oil fired 4 8 4 50 on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco Texas 41 also a former Meteor locomotive Frisco 4516 4 8 4 Northern type coal fired locomotive 50 on static display at Missouri State Fairgrounds Sedalia Missouri also known as Old Smokie 52 Frisco 4524 another wartime 4500 series 4 8 4 coal fired Northern type 50 donated to Springfield Missouri in November 1954 53 now on static display at the Railroad Historical Museum inside Grant Beach Park in Springfield and wearing the Frisco Faster Freight paint scheme 54 55 Being the last engine of the last group of steam locomotives that Frisco purchased this engine has the distinction of being the last steam locomotive built for the Frisco 50 Diesel locomotives Edit Frisco 200 a Baldwin VO 1000 switcher and Frisco s very first diesel locomotive of any kind was sold to the Navy which in 2015 sold it to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum located in Chattanooga Tennessee which has it stored out of service 56 The U S Navy acquired a number of the Frisco VO 1000 diesels reportedly including Numbers 200 203 and 205 206 57 Other units may still be in use by the Navy or may have been sold to other parties 57 Frisco 261 is an EMD NW2 that later became Burlington Northern 421 It is currently in its Burlington Northern livery and is in the collection of the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita KS 58 Frisco 814 is an operational General Motors EMD F9A located at the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City 59 Note While the locomotive has been lettered by the museum as Frisco this was not a Frisco unit It was originally purchased in 1954 by the Northern Pacific Railway Road Number 7003 D and became the Burlington Northern Railroad 814 due to a merger 59 The Frisco s only operation of F9A units occurred when two of the line s EMD F3A units were converted into F9A units 60 Buildings and structures Edit Multiple surviving buildings structures and locations associated with the Frisco are on the National Register of Historic Places including the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad Building in Joplin Missouri the St Louis San Francisco Railroad Depot in Poplar Bluff Missouri the St Louis and San Francisco Railway Depot in Comanche Texas the Beaumont St Louis and San Francisco Railroad Retention Pond and the Beaumont St Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank Frisco Lake a small lake in Rolla Phelps County Missouri was named for and owned by the Frisco 61 The Frisco Building being the former Frisco headquarters in Springfield built in 1910 and now known as the Landmark Building is an official City of Springfield counsel approved landmark 62 63 The Frisco Bridge at Memphis was the first bridge over the Mississippi River south of St Louis and the third longest bridge in the world at the time of its dedication on May 12 1892 64 it is now listed as an National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark 4 4 0s EditLocomotives with 4 4 0 wheel arrangements known as the American type because they were considered for many years to be the standard in American locomotives originally served Frisco in great numbers 65 In July 1903 the Frisco had 159 4 4 0 s in service built by twenty five different companies 65 Frisco renumbered its units in that year assigning the 4 4 0 s either numbers between 1 299 140 units or 2200 series numbers 19 units 65 The oldest Frisco 4 4 0 locomotive was No 47 built in 1869 by Hinkley Locomotive Works 65 The last serving 4 4 0 s were retired in 1951 4 6 0s EditEven more numerous on the Frisco were 4 6 0 Ten wheelers 66 The first such engines entered the Frisco system in 1870 66 By 1903 Frisco had a fleet of 430 such locomotives which were renumbered that year into seven class series using 400 500 600 700 1100 1400 and 2600 series numbers 66 The last 4 6 0 s on the Frisco roster were the 1400 series with the last engine to be retired from service being 1409 dismantled and sold for scrap in November 1951 66 Doodlebugs EditFrisco series 2100 equipment consisted of self propelled rail motor cars mostly gas electric models 67 with a few gas mechanical models given 3000 series numbers 68 69 70 These railway vehicles were commonly known as Doodlebugs for their insect like appearance and the slow speeds at which they would doddle or doodle down the tracks 67 These were used to service various low volume branch lines in the Frisco organization 67 71 An initial order for ten was placed in 1910 with seven more arriving by 1913 putting Frisco in the forefront of gas electric operation at that time 67 The initial batch numbered 2100 to 2109 included nine baggage coach combinations as well as one baggage mail coach unit 67 Frisco s peak year for motor car mileage was 1931 and its fleet at that time included twenty three gas electrics five gas mechanical cars four trailer coaches and six mail baggage units 67 The final Frisco run of a Doodlebug was on November 8 1953 when No 2128 traveled from Ardmore Oklahoma for the four hour trip to Hugo Oklahoma 67 Frisco Series 4300 and 4400 EditTwo series of Frisco locomotives not surviving were Frisco 4300s and 4400s These were all 4 8 2 units assembled by Frisco itself in the late 1930s to the early 1940s from other locomotives Eleven being units 4300 through 4310 were built in 1936 and 1937 from used 2 10 2 parts They had 27 x 30 cylinders 70 drivers a boiler pressure of 250 psi and a tractive effort of 66 400 lbs weighing 431 110 pounds Another twenty three 4 8 2s were built using the boilers from 2 10 2s between 1939 and 1942 Units 4400 through 4412 were oil burning while units 4413 through 4422 burned coal These locomotives had 29 x 32 cylinders 70 drivers a boiler pressure of 210 psi and a tractive effort of 68 600 lbs Weighing in at 449 760 pounds they were the heaviest Mountain type locomotives ever built 33 Dieselization EditFrisco s first acquisition of diesel locomotives came in November 1941 when the line received five Baldwin VO 1000 switchers of a thousand horsepower each 72 73 Frisco started a serious dieselization program in 1947 which took about five years 74 When the period of steam power ended for Frisco in February 1952 with the last run of steam engine 4018 the Frisco s diesel fleet included seventeen 2 250 HP passenger six 2 000 HP passenger twelve 1 500 HP combination freight and passenger one hundred and twenty three 1 500 HP freight one hundred and thirty three 1 500 HP general purpose eleven 1 000 HP general purpose and one hundred and five yard switcher units for a total of 407 diesel locomotives 75 At that time the Frisco became the largest Class I railroad in the U S to be operating strictly with diesel power 74 The Frisco gave names to its 2000 series diesel passenger locomotives EMD E7 and mostly EMD E8 units 76 using the theme of famous horses 77 These included racehorses such as Gallant Fox 2011 Sea Biscuit 2013 and Citation 2016 77 However other horses also made the list for instance when 2022 was rebuilt after a wreck it was given the name of Champion after ex Frisco employee Gene Autry s trusty steed in the movies 77 Frisco Silver Dollar Line EditThe amusement park Silver Dollar City in Branson Missouri runs multiple diesel fired or heating oil fired steam trains around the park on its 2 foot gauge rail line known as the Frisco Silver Dollar Line The Frisco operated in that part of the country and supplied construction help to the Park along with the rails and ties back when this line was being built in 1962 Perhaps for these reasons the trains sport the Frisco name and logo However this was never an actual Frisco rail line and the steam locomotives started life as industrial engines on German intraplant railroads not as actual rolling stock on the Frisco 78 Predecessors EditMain article List of predecessors of the St Louis San Francisco Railway The following companies were predecessors of the Frisco Pacific Railroad charter granted by Missouri on March 3 1849 Southwest Pacific Railroad John C Fremont reorganized in August 1866 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad incorporated on July 27 1866 Arkansas and Choctaw Railway 1895 79 Acquisitions Edit Frisco 1522 has been preserved and restored In this picture the locomotive is sitting in Arkansas City Kansas The following railroads were acquired or merged into the Frisco This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2008 Missouri and Western Railway 1879 St Louis Arkansas and Texas Railway 1882 Springfield and Southern Railroad 1885 Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad 1886 Fayetteville and Little Rock Railroad 1887 Fort Smith and Southern Railway 1887 Kansas City Osceola and Southern Railway 1900 Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad 1901 St Louis Oklahoma and Southern Railway 1901 Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis Railway 1901 Arkansas Valley and Western Railway 1907 Blackwell Enid and Southwestern Railway 1903 Red River Texas and Southern Railway 1904 Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad December 19 1904 Crawford County Midland Railroad June 20 1905 Oklahoma City and Western Railroad 1907 December 19 1910 Sapulpa and Oil Field Railroad 1917 West Tulsa Belt Railway 1922 Jonesboro Lake City and Eastern Railroad 1924 Pittsburg and Columbus Railway Pittsburg Kansas 1925 1926 Springfield Connecting Railway May 11 1926 Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company 1928 Paris and Great Northern Railroad July 21 1928 Kansas City Clinton and Springfield Railway September 1 1928 Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railroad December 28 1948 Central of Georgia Railway 1956 The Interstate Commerce Commission did not approve the purchase so the Frisco sold it to Southern Railway in 1961 Northeast Oklahoma Railroad December 27 1963 Division dissolved February 27 1967 Roads involved include NEO RR Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri Interurban Railroad Joplin and Pittsburg Railway and Oklahoma Traction Company Asset absorptions Edit The following is a list of partial or full asset absorptions many times through bankruptcy courts or creditors In some cases the Frisco was a creditor Assets can include mineral rights property track and right of way trains bonds mortgages etc Frisco 1621 on display at the National Museum of Transportation outside St Louis Missouri St Louis Wichita and Western Railway 1882 St Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad 1898 Kansas Midland Railroad October 23 1900 Oklahoma City Terminal Railroad 1900 1903 Fort Smith and Van Buren Bridge Company 1907 Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway 1907 St Louis Memphis and Southern Railroad 1907 Sulphur Springs Railway 1907 Joplin Railway 1910 Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway 1919 1937 Fayetteville and Little Rock Railroad 1926 Little Rock and Texas Railway 1926 Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham Railroad September 1 1928 Muscle Shoals Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad 1928 1947 Miami Mineral Belt Railroad 1950 St Louis Kennett and Southeastern Railroad 1950 St Louis San Francisco and Texas Railway 1963 1964 Birmingham Belt Railroad 1967 liquidation of BB RR and distribution of assets See also Edit Railways portalFrisco Texas Gulf Coast Lines Benjamin Franklin Yoakum Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway St Louis San Francisco 1522 St Louis San Francisco 1630References Edit Patrick Hiatte Springfield Missouri The Heart of the Frisco 1955 Trains magazine December 2003 a b About the Frisco Railroad Frisco org October 6 2013 Retrieved March 6 2020 History of the Frisco TheLibrary org Springfield Missouri Springfield Greene County Library District Corporate History St Louis San Francisco Railway Company The Truman Area Community Network Henry County Library June 2 2008 Archived from the original on July 22 2012 St Bernard Progress Gigantic Scope of the Plans of the Frisco Buying Upland Up to the Orleans Parish Line New Orleans Louisiana The Times Democrat July 16 1903 p 7 subscription required FRISCO INTERNATIONAL WIDE VISION CABOOSE 239 Canadian Model Trains Inc March 12 2009 Retrieved March 18 2012 100 Years of Service Frisco Veterans Reunion via Springfield Greene County Library Retrieved March 18 2012 a b Frisco Texas PDF All Aboard The Frisco Railroad Museum April 1989 accessed on CondrenRails com 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