El ferrocarril St. Louis-San Francisco ( marca de informe SLSF ), también conocido como " Frisco ", fue un ferrocarril que operó en el medio oeste y el centro sur de EE. UU . Durante 104 años entre 1876 y el 17 de abril de 1980. A finales de 1970 , operó 4.547 millas (7.318 km) de carretera en 6.574 millas (10.580 km) de vías, sin incluir las subsidiarias Quanah, Acme y Pacific Railway o Alabama, Tennessee y Northern Railroad ; ese año, reportó 12,795 millones de toneladas-millas de carga de ingresos y sin pasajeros. Fue comprado y absorbido por el ferrocarril del norte de Burlington en 1980. [2]A pesar de su nombre, nunca se acercó a San Francisco .
Descripción general | |
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Sede | Springfield, Misuri [1] |
Marca de informe | SLSF |
Lugar | Alabama , Arkansas , Florida , Kansas , Misisipi , Misuri , Oklahoma , Tennessee , Texas |
Fechas de operación | 1876–1980 |
Sucesor | Burlington Northern |
Técnico | |
Ancho de vía | 4 pies 8+1 / 2 en(1435 mm) de calibre estándar |
Historia
El Ferrocarril St. Louis-San Francisco se incorporó en Missouri el 7 de septiembre de 1876. Se formó a partir de la División de Missouri y la División Central del Ferrocarril del Atlántico y el Pacífico . Esta línea de concesión de tierras fue uno de los dos ferrocarriles (el otro es el MKT ) autorizados para construir en todo el territorio indio. El ferrocarril de Atchison, Topeka y Santa Fe , interesado en el derecho de paso de A&P a través del desierto de Mojave hacia California , tomó el camino hasta que el camino más grande quebró en 1893; los receptores retuvieron el derecho de paso occidental pero se despojaron del ATSF del kilometraje St. Louis-San Francisco en las Grandes Llanuras . Después de la quiebra, Frisco surgió como el Ferrocarril de San Luis y San Francisco, incorporado el 29 de junio de 1896, [3] [4] que también se declaró en quiebra. El 24 de agosto de 1916, la compañía se reorganizó como el Ferrocarril St. Louis-San Francisco, aunque la línea nunca fue al oeste de Texas , terminando a más de 1,600 km de San Francisco.
El ferrocarril St. Louis-San Francisco tenía dos líneas principales: St. Louis - Tulsa - Oklahoma City - Floydada, Texas y Kansas City - Memphis - Birmingham . El cruce de las dos líneas estaba en Springfield, Missouri , hogar de las instalaciones y oficinas centrales de la empresa. Otras líneas incluyeron:
- Springfield – Kansas City (vía Clinton, Missouri )
- Monett, Misuri ( Pierce City ) - Wichita, Kansas
- Monett, Misuri - Hugo, Oklahoma - París, Texas
- St. Louis – River Junction, Arkansas (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Tulsa, Oklahoma– Dallas, Texas
- Tulsa, Oklahoma– Avard, Oklahoma
- Lakeside, Oklahoma – Hugo, Oklahoma– Hope, Arkansas
- Amory, Misisipi - Pensacola, Florida
Desde marzo de 1917 hasta enero de 1959, Frisco, en una empresa conjunta con el ferrocarril Missouri-Kansas-Texas , operó el Texas Special . Este lujoso tren, un aerodinámico de 1947, iba de St. Louis a Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas y San Antonio, Texas .
El Frisco se fusionó con el ferrocarril del norte de Burlington el 21 de noviembre de 1980. [2]
La ciudad de Frisco, Texas , recibió su nombre del ferrocarril y usa el logotipo del antiguo ferrocarril como su propio logotipo. El logo está modelado a partir de una piel de mapache estirada [5] [6] (dando lugar a la mascota de Frisco High School , los Fighting Raccoons).
Trenes de pasajeros
Si bien el Texas Special puede ser el tren de pasajeros más famoso que jamás haya operado Frisco, también tenía una flota completa de trenes con nombre. Estos incluyeron:
- Black Gold (una operación conjunta Frisco-Katy inaugurada entre Tulsa y Houston el 23 de enero de 1938 y que continúa hasta el 18 de enero de 1960) [7]
- El Bluebonnet (de St. Louis a San Antonio, con servicio directo de MKT, que sale temprano en la tarde, llega a Dallas / Ft. Worth a la mañana siguiente y llega a San Antonio al final de la tarde). [8] [9]
- Firefly (en varias ocasiones sirviendo a St. Louis, Kansas City, Fort Scott, Tulsa y Oklahoma City. [10] Este fue el primer aerodinámico de Frisco, y el primer aerodinámico que se construyó en el suroeste, las modificaciones aerodinámicas las realizó el propio Frisco ) [10]
- General Wood (originalmente entre St. Louis y Springfield, Missouri desde mayo de 1941; truncado en junio de 1942 para dar servicio entre St. Louis y Newburg, Missouri ; y descontinuado por completo en el otoño de 1946.) [11]
- Gobernador (Joplin-Tulsa-Oklahoma City) [12]
- Especial Kansas City – Florida (Kansas City– Jacksonville )
- Kansas Limited (St. Louis-Wichita- Ellsworth ) [12]
- Kansas Mail (St. Louis-Wichita) [12]
- Memphian (St. Louis – Memphis)
- Pasajero de Memphis (St. Louis – Memphis) [12]
- Meteor (St. Louis – Tulsa-Oklahoma City de noche con tren de conexión Monett- Fort Smith -Paris, TX)
- Especial de campos petrolíferos (Kansas City-Tulsa-Dallas-Ft. Worth, con servicio directo a Houston) [12]
- Oklahoman (una vez conectado Kansas City-Tulsa, pero luego fue desviado (entre St. Louis-Oklahoma City)
- Southland (Kansas City – Birmingham) (sucesor truncado del especial Kansas City – Florida )
- Southwest Limited (St. Louis-Tulsa-Oklahoma City-Lawton) [12]
- St. Louis-Memphis Limited (St. Louis-Memphis-Birmingham) [12]
- Sunnyland (Kansas City / St. Louis– Atlanta / Pensacola / Nueva Orleans )
- Tulsa Texan (una operación conjunta Frisco-Katy inaugurada entre Tulsa y Houston en 1937, y eliminada gradualmente entre marzo y julio de 1940) [7]
- Texas Flash ( Tulsa- Sherman -Dallas de día)
- Texokla Limited (St. Louis-Springfield-Dallas) [12]
- Texas Limited (St. Louis-Springfield-Dallas, con servicio directo a Houston-Galveston) [12]
- Especial de Texas (St. Louis-Springfield-Dallas-Ft. Worth, con servicio directo a Austin-San Antonio) [12]
- Will Rogers (St. Louis – Oklahoma City / Wichita de día, 1936-1965; con servicio directo hacia el norte desde St. Louis a Chicago a través del ferrocarril Alton o del ferrocarril Wabash ) [9]
- Chadwick Flyer (ramal de Springfield a Chadwick, Missouri ; descontinuado en marzo de 1933) [13]
Antiguas líneas de Frisco hoy
El núcleo del antiguo sistema de Frisco sigue siendo operado por BNSF Railway como líneas principales de alta densidad. Otras líneas secundarias y derivadas se han vendido a operadores de líneas cortas o se han abandonado por completo.
- Kansas City - Springfield - Memphis - Birmingham: Operado por BNSF
- St. Louis - Springfield - Tulsa - Dallas: Operado por BNSF
- Fort Scott, Kansas a Afton, Oklahoma : operado por BNSF
- St. Louis a Memphis, Tennessee: operado por BNSF
- Tulsa, Oklahoma a Avard, Oklahoma: operado por BNSF
- Fredonia, Kansas a Cherryvale, Kansas a Columbus, Kansas : operado por South Kansas y Oklahoma Railroad
- Cherokee, Kansas a Pittsburg, Kansas : operado por South Kansas y Oklahoma Railroad
- Fredonia, Kansas a Ellsworth, Kansas : Abandonado
- Cherokee, Kansas a Cherryvale, Kansas: abandonado
- Monett, Missouri a Fort Smith, Arkansas: operado por Arkansas y Missouri Railroad
- Lakeside, Oklahoma a Hope, Arkansas: operado por Kiamichi Railroad ( Genesee & Wyoming Inc. )
- Tulsa, Oklahoma ( Sapulpa ) a Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: operado por Stillwater Central Railroad
- Oklahoma City a Snyder, Oklahoma: operado por Stillwater Central Railroad
- Snyder, Oklahoma (Long Siding) a Quanah, Texas : Operado por BNSF
- Enid, Oklahoma a Frederick, Oklahoma : operado por Grainbelt / Farmrail
- Amory, Mississippi a Pensacola, Florida: operado por Alabama y Gulf Coast Railway (RailAmerica)
- Springfield a Kansas City (vía Clinton) (dos rutas): abandonada
- Monett (Pierce City) a Carthage, Missouri : Fuera de servicio
- Carthage, Missouri a Wichita, Kansas: mayoritariamente abandonado
- Chaffee, Missouri a Poplar Bluff, Missouri a Hoxie, Arkansas (Hoxie Sub): Abandonado
Equipo de supervivencia
Locomotoras de vapor
- Frisco 19 , un tipo de consolidación 2-8-0 construido en 1910 y en exhibición estática en Frisco, Texas, ubicado junto a la réplica de Frisco Depot y las pistas BNSF que atraviesan la ciudad. [14] (Nota: Esta locomotora se llama Frisco, pero en realidad no operaba en el SLSF. Es el antiguo Lake Superior e Ishpeming Railroad 19. Fue comprada por la ciudad de Frisco, Texas, como una exhibición estática, y es representativa de una locomotora típica de Frisco. Frisco operó varias Consolidaciones como motores de la serie 1306 de Frisco. [15] Específicamente los números 1306 a 1345 fueron construidos por ALCO (la planta de obras de locomotoras de Schenectady ) para Frisco en 1912; todos fueron originalmente quemadores de carbón, pero 22 se convirtieron más tarde en quemadores de aceite) [16].
- Frisco 73 , un “Mogul” 2-6-0 construido por Baldwin en 1916. [17] Tiene cilindros de 19 "y ruedas motrices de 49-1 / 2". [17] Numerada como 34 cuando Frisco adquirió a su propietario, Jonesboro, Lake City y Eastern Railroad en 1925, la locomotora fue renumerada a 73 y conservada por Frisco hasta que fue vendida el 19 de septiembre de 1945 a Delta Valley y Southern Railway , una operador de línea corta en el noreste de Arkansas. [17] Se conserva en la plantación Lee Wesson en Victoria, Arkansas [18] bajo el nombre Delta Valley & Southern Locomotive No. 73 sin números visibles en la cabina o ténder, [19] pero con la piel de mapache original de Frisco. -Tablero de números en forma y “73” en su morro. [17]
- Frisco 76 y Frisco 77 , 2-8-0 Motores de tipo consolidación construidos como Números 40 y 41 por Baldwin Locomotive Works en diciembre de 1920 para Jonesboro, Lake City y Eastern Railroad . [20] Cuando esa línea se convirtió en parte del Frisco, las locomotoras se volvieron a numerar como 76 y 77. [20] Después de realizar el servicio de carga durante años, ambas locomotoras se vendieron en 1947 al Mississippian Railway, donde conservaron los números de Frisco. [20] Después de varios cambios adicionales en la propiedad de cada motor, [20] [21] # 76 ahora es propiedad del Oakland B&O Museum en Oakland, Maryland, donde ha sido renumerado y reletreado como Baltimore & Ohio 476, [22] y el n. ° 77 está ahora en Alberta Prairie Railway en Stettler, Alberta, donde tira trenes de excursión y se ha vuelto a numerar a 41. [21]
- Frisco 1351 , construido en 1912 como una consolidación 2-8-0 (Frisco 1313), y convertido por Frisco en un Mikado 2-8-2 en noviembre de 1943. [15] Ahora en exhibición estática en Collierville, Tennessee . [23]
- Frisco 1352 , construido por ALCO en 1912 como una consolidación 2-8-0 (Frisco 1321), y convertido por Frisco en junio de 1944 en un Mikado 2-8-2. [24] Desmontado en Taylorville, Illinois ; a la espera de restauración a la condición de funcionamiento. [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/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 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 train hosted 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 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 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 814, an operational General Motors EMD F9A, located at the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City.[56] (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.[56] The Frisco's only operation of F9A units occurred when two of the line's EMD F3A units were converted into F9A units.[57])
Buildings and structures
Multiple surviving buildings and structures 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. 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.[58][59] 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;[60] it is now listed as an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
4-4-0's
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.[61] In July, 1903, the Frisco had 159 4-4-0's in service, built by twenty-five different companies.[61] 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).[61] The oldest Frisco 4-4-0 locomotive was No. 47, built in 1869 by Hinkley Locomotive Works.[61] The last serving 4-4-0's were dismantled in July, 1935.[61]
4-6-0's
Even more numerous on the Frisco were 4-6-0 “Ten-wheelers.”[62] The first such engines entered the Frisco system in 1870.[62] 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.[62] 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.[62]
Doodlebugs
Frisco-series 2100 equipment consisted of self-propelled rail motor-cars, mostly gas-electric models,[63] with a few gas-mechanical models given 3000-series numbers.[64][65][66] 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.[63] These were used to service various low-volume branch lines in the Frisco organization.[63][67] 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.[63] The initial batch, numbered 2100 to 2109, included nine baggage-coach combinations, as well as one baggage-mail-coach unit.[63] 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.[63] 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.[63]
Frisco Series 4300 y 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]
Dieselización
Frisco’s first acquisition of diesel locomotives came in November 1941, when the line received five Baldwin VO-1000 thousand-horsepower switchers.[68][69] Frisco started a serious dieselization program in 1947, which took about five years.[70] 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.[71] At that time, the Frisco became the largest Class I railroad in the U.S. to be operating strictly with diesel power.[70]
The Frisco gave names to its 2000-series diesel passenger locomotives, EMD E7 and (mostly) EMD E8 units,[72] using the theme of famous horses.[73] These included racehorses such as Gallant Fox (#2011), Sea Biscuit (#2013), and Citation (#2016).[73] 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.[73]
Línea Frisco Silver Dollar
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.[74]
Antecesores
The following companies were predecessors of the Frisco:
- Pacific Railroad, charter granted by Missouri on March 3, 1849
- Southwest Pacific Railroad, John C. Frémont reorganized in August 1866
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, incorporated on July 27, 1866
- Arkansas and Choctaw Railway; 1895[75]
Adquisiciones
The following railroads were acquired or merged into the Frisco:
- 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 and Railroad: May 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
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.
- 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)
Ver también
- Frisco, Texas
- Gulf Coast Lines
- Benjamin Franklin Yoakum
- Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway
- Frisco 1522
Referencias
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enlaces externos
- Frisco.org - St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
enlaces externos
- "100 Years of Service". 1960. Retrieved 2006-04-20.
- 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.
- Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory