Here's some pics of Frisco rolling stock I found in the Kiamichi RR yard at Hugo, OK back in 1992: Difco side-dump car, used mostly for MOW service. How about a two-fer? Frisco pulpwood flatcar ( or woodrack, as the railroaders call 'em) awaiting its next trip to the Nekoosa woodyard in Antlers. When loaded, this car and several of its kin will will go east to Ashdown, AR on the Kiamichi, then a couple os miles south on KCS trackage (handled by the Kiamichi's Ashdown Switcher) to the giant Nekoosa paper mill.The car was built by General Steel Casting as a bulkhead flat, and was converted by Frisco. FYI, Walthers came out with an HO scale GSC flatcar which is a great starting point for a Frisco woodrack. The battered Frisco gon behind the woodrack looks like it's seen better days. That burgundy car to the right of the woodrack? It's another Frisco car, one of over 100 bought by Kiamichi for pulpwood service. Virtually all the 54-foot Frisco woodracks have been rebuilt to carry tree-length logs for the paper mill.
"Olf" rolling stock? That must be a local descriptive term for battered, rusty freight cars? There are too few of these reminders left out there. Sure wish we had the variety last known in the 1960's. Boxcab E50
The wood racks that Atlas Did (in HO and N) are also appropriate for Frisco. The 54 foot cars replaced the smaller ones like the Atlas Models in the late 1970s. BTW, Nick Molo's Color Guide to Frisco and Katy Freight Equipment also has shots of both of these cars, and, it has shots of the short woodracks converted to MOW tie service. Paul
Hey Bob, Does the Nekoosa paper mill still have that old Alco RS unit? If so, are they still using it?
No, sadly it's gone. And Nekoosa has sold out to Georgia-Pacific, so I'm not sure what they have for power. As for the Atlas cars, yes, you're right. I also have a couple of shots of Frisco 40-footers Kiamichi bought from BN for tie-hauling, a la Frisco. None were used, nor have been used, for pulpwood service by Kiamichi.
Hello all I love the old pic's of the frisco cars, if I can get my old laptop hooked up to dsl I will down load some pics I took around 2001 of some old frisco cars sitting out in Pawnee county okla, still used as mow cars, my best pic is of a 30s flat car still in use as a make shift mow car with the hand brack wheels standing up at each end of the car, the wood deck is in sad shape as well as the paint, but if you look close you can still see the sl-sf
Opps almost forgot If you live in sherman, have you been down to the fortworth yard?, last time I was through there.....which was about two months ago I say about 9 or 10 covered hoppers with the "Frisco" still painted on the sides. I plan on taking my camer next time I go back down to see my parents in grapevine. brian.
Hooch, I still see several of those roll by with HMJX markings. Also a couple Rio Grade hoppers and PPLX were in the same train. All kinds of old, beaten up stuff.
It was doing about 50mph. I actually took the picture through the windshield of my car. The other Frisco hopper had the crossbucks right in the middle of it. [ 07. September 2004, 00:40: Message edited by: Hooch Runners ]
I saw this guy last week. I rounded a corner and there was a NS switcher pulling it out from a local industry. Not a great shot but I had to act fast or miss it all together. I was kinda surprised, and it wasn't even patched.
Heres a Frisco hopper I saw back in the spring. Bob, Hate to hear that old Alco is gone. I will have to dig up a photo of that old Alco and post it.
I used to see this tanker at Minot Gavin yard in ND for months, I would almost bet it still is there:
Here's a shot of the old Alco switcher that was at the paper mill near Ashdown. Bob, is this the one you remember seeing there?
Yep, that's the one! Here's my shot of the same Alco: About ten years earlier, back in Ashdown, I got this diesel resting between chores (Ashdown Switcher, Hope Switcher) on October 25, 1980, little less than a month before Frisco would be part of the BN:
