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August 25, 2018 at 11:58 pm #6140peggyrothschildParticipant
Not dated but the MP units are in 3 digits. When did the SLSF start using Mandarin orange and white?
August 26, 2018 at 4:14 pm #8974bargetanikaParticipantThis video was around before but this time with a really cool jazzy soundtrack.
I never thought I’d be sentimental about diesels. But this is the railroading I saw when young. All the F units and high nose geeps and cabooses. In the plains country that I love. There is an associated video that shows a heavyweight combine at the end of a mixed train. Sigh.
August 26, 2018 at 9:38 pm #8975princessclyne69ParticipantAccording to the Marre/Harper Frisco Diesel Power book, the orange and white scheme began in 1965.
I don’t have a Frisco crossing and maybe never will, but I suppose I can conveniently ignore this scheme. Frisco was not a party to the WTA switching agreement, and after the early fifties they left their old engine facility south of Douglas and moved to north of 29th Street, so the Frisco equipment was not exactly frequently seen.
On the other hand, I might need a model of Frisco 261 which was the Wichita switcher from the time it was built til it was retired, and it still lives in Wichita today at the GPTM. It’s green and white.
RG7
August 27, 2018 at 12:44 am #8976peggyrothschildParticipantRon
Thanks for the date; SLSF had an intermodal train (#33) that left their Lindenwood Yard at 11:00 am daily. We lived in Webster Groves and if I didn’t feel like waiting around for the Mopac to show up at Kirkwood I’d plant myself at McKnight/Rockhill Road on the Frisco and around 11:13 on the nose you’d see a headlight coming down the Frisco with several SD types and a Memphis train in tow. Also saw their Chrysler turn many times with MP15s running back to back. Loved the orange and white paint scheme on the WV cabooses.August 27, 2018 at 3:26 pm #8977Thomas HobackParticipantA Frisco ex confirming Ron’s 1965 date for the mandarin orange (which my boss at the Frisco always referred to as mandarin red) and white paint scheme. The black and gold was still around, though, when I came on the scene in late 1974, mostly on switch engines that had had their original prime movers replaced with EMDs.
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