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Meteor The Meteor at left, with the Texas Special as diesel equipped trains and new colors. Overview Service type Inter-city rail Status Discontinued Locale Midwestern United States / Southwestern United States First service 1902 Last service 1965 Former operator(s) St. Louis – San Francisco Railway Route Termini St. Louis, Missouri Lawton, Oklahoma Distance travelled 631.5 miles (1,016.3 km ...
In 1964 Texas Special service was discontinued south of Dallas, Texas. The last Texas Special ran on July 1, 1965. [1] Frisco purchased the E7 locomotives and Pullman cars for the Texas Special at the same time as they purchased ones for the Meteor, so the two trains shared the distinctive red and silver look. Frisco bought sets of named cars ...
The museum's offices and some exhibits are temporarily housed at the Frisco Heritage Museum while construction continues on the museum's new location two blocks south. [3] TrainTopia, a G scale model train layout, opened in July 2018 in the Frisco Discovery Center next to the museum's site. An additional O-scale layout is being reassembled.
"Old 4524," the last of the Frisco railroad's steam locomotives, on the track before its final journey to Grant Beach Park. Published in the Springfield Leader & Press on Nov. 2, 1953.
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The Kansas City–Florida Special was a pooled night train and the premier train of the Frisco Railroad and the Southern Railway.Operating from Kansas City, Missouri to Jacksonville, Florida, it was unique as being one of very few long distance passenger train to traverse the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, Missouri and north of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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