Love those spark arrestors. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler.

I was surprised when I found a former Frisco GP switching cars on the Philadelphia waterfront in 1980. The engine numbers are painted out on the cab but the paint scheme is otherwise untouched. Th... (more)

Frisco power populates the service track on Labor Day in 1980, 3 months before the end of the railroad. BN acquired the RR around December 1, 1980.

A stop while driving from Fort Worth to KC between training assignments netted this view at Frisco's Cherokee yard service track in 1980. The Frisco SD45's had the L shaped windshield that only a ... (more)

A southbound Burlington Northern freight approaches Douglas, Wyoming, on the BN’s Casper Subdivision on the morning of May 12, 1995. BN No. 3100 is the railroad’s first EMD GP50, ordered by Fr... (more)

Frisco #1501, a Baldwin product of 1923, has recently had a cosmetic restoration. This is how park engines should look. Good job by all involved.

Frisco 4018 sits at the historic Sloss Furnace steel mill. The rainbow in the background is caused by the water cooling ponds which have been restored to use as a fountain.

The all-stops local on the St. Louis- Oklahoma City run for thirty years was the WILL ROGERS. It is shown here making its Tulsa, OK pause on February 3, 1965. Photo from my slide collection, no ... (more)

In the middle of its GP7 purchasing program, the Frisco paused long enough to sample five competitor RS-2's from Alco. Not a good idea. They were repowered by EMD and became GP-7's in effect, if... (more)

Frisco purchase the Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railway in 1948, and also acquired eleven new Alco RS-1's nos. 101-111 with "AT&N" sublettering. Photo from my slide collection, no photographer... (more)

Frisco (SLSF) FP-7 5047, a baggage car, a baggage-RPO, a coach, and a sleeper for forwarding to St. Louis on the METEOR make up the standard consist. From my collection, Photo by Louis A. Marre... (more)

Frisco (SLSF) EMD GP7 559; Road Numbers 500-549 and 555-632. Unknown photographer photo.

Frisco (SLSF) GE U25B 801 (800-807); The first eight U25Bs were high nose versions, the rest low-nose. Only Frisco and Union Pacific purchased the high-nose version. Photo from my collection, no... (more)

Frisco (SLSF) E8A 2018 "Ponder" on the head of the St. Louis-Oklahoma City WILL ROGERS at Springfield, Missouri in May 1967. Unknown photographer photo, from my slide collection.

Frisco (SLSF) GE U25B 811, U30B 847, U30B 842 and GP35 725 heads south near Vinita, Oklahoma in July 1978. Unknown photographer photo from my collection.