Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first three (Nos 4500–4502) were built as oil-burning steam locomotives in 1942 for Frisco passenger service. [1] They were painted in the zephyr blue, white and gray paint scheme with "Meteor" spelled out on the side of the tender in bold, red letters. [1] They were used for pulling Frisco's crack Meteor train service. [1]
Frisco 4500, a 4-8-4 oil-fired Northern-type built in 1942, [52] on static display in Tulsa, Oklahoma, being a locomotive which pulled the Frisco's crack Meteor passenger train. [ 53 ] Frisco 4501 , an oil-fired 4-8-4 [ 52 ] on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, [ 43 ] also a former Meteor locomotive.
No. 4500 was built as an oil-burning steam locomotive by Baldwin in 1942 for Frisco passenger service. [1] It was the first 4-8-4 Northern that Frisco ordered. Along with similar locomotives 4501 and 4502, it was painted in the zephyr blue, white and gray paint scheme with "Meteor" spelled out on the side of the tender in bold, red letters. [1]
"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.
Frisco purchased the EMD E7 locomotives and Pullman cars for the Meteor at the same time as they purchased ones for the Texas Special, so the two trains shared a distinctive look; bright red with corrugated stainless-steel side panels. Frisco bought sets of named cars for each train. The last day of Meteor service was September 17, 1965. [1]
Katy and Frisco outfitted two complete 14 car trains with EMD E7 locomotives and Pullman rolling stock. Each train had seven sleepers , three coaches , a coach-buffet- lounge car , a diner , a combination RPO - baggage car , and an observation car (sleeper-lounge-observation car or buffet-lounge-observation car).
In the 1950s the train's itinerary was shortened to Kansas City-Tulsa. [4] The train's last run, between Fort Scott and Tulsa, took place on May 22, 1960; between Fort Scott and Kansas City it ran combined with the Sunnyland. [5] The Firefly was the last Frisco train serving the Tulsa-Fort Scott route. [6]
St. Louis–San Francisco 1352 is an Alco built 2-8-2 Steam locomotive.Built in 1912 as a 2-8-0 Consolidation-type by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York, for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (SLSF or "Frisco"), the engine was later rebuilt into a 2-8-2 Mikado-type to keep up with the traffic demands from World War II.