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The museum has an exhibit called "TrainTopia – A Railroad Odyssey in Miniature" in the Frisco Discovery Center next to the museum. [8] This is a 2,500-square-foot professionally-built G scale model railroad layout donated to the museum by the Sanders family; [ 9 ] a $300,000 donation from the Ryan Foundation funded moving the layout and ...
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. Frisco 4516 , 4-8-4 Northern-type coal-fired locomotive [ 52 ] on static display at Missouri State Fairgrounds , Sedalia, Missouri , also known as "Old Smokie."
Sulphur Springs Railway: 1902 1903 1907 (to Frisco of 1896) Scullin (on the line to Dallas-Fort Worth) to Sulphur: Arkansas Valley and Western Railway: 1902 1904 1907 (to Frisco of 1896) Tulsa to Avard: St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway: 1880 1880 1882 (to Frisco of 1876) Monett (on the main line) to Fort Smith; completed by the Frisco
"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.
The St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans Railroad (“New Orleans”) ran from Hope, Arkansas to a point near Ardmore, Oklahoma, and encompassed about 219 miles of track including a branch line. It existed from 1895 (under a different name) to 1907, when its assets were taken over by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (“Frisco”).
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]
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1522 is a preserved class T-54 4-8-2 "Mountain" type steam locomotive built in May 1926 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (SLSF), also known as the "Frisco". It, along with her sisters, was built to handle Frisco's heavier passenger trains through the hilly Ozark regions.
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.