10pm Lightning and Storms at the IRM - Frisco 1630 Idles at the Illinois Railway Museum , waiting with passengers on board and waiting out the thunderstorm moving through the area.

St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad 119 is a GP15-1 locomotive, built in September 1977 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. (Fort Smith, Arkansas – December 17, 1980) Douglas G. Walker p... (more)

Frisco 1630 gets protected through a grade crossing as it leads a nighttime mail train.

Frisco 1630's engineer surveys the route ahead as the locomotive poses at Depot Street.

Frisco 1630, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1918, brings the night coach train past Spaulding tower as it arrives at the East Union depot.

Retired in 1951 and donated to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, SLSF 1522 underwent a 3-year restoration beginning in 1985. In one of its first excursions, the 4-8-2 "Mountain"... (more)

Love those spark arrestors. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler.

I was surprised when I found a former Frisco GP switching cars on the Philadelphia waterfront in 1980. The engine numbers are painted out on the cab but the paint scheme is otherwise untouched. Th... (more)

Frisco power populates the service track on Labor Day in 1980, 3 months before the end of the railroad. BN acquired the RR around December 1, 1980.

A Springfield bound train along I-44 and just a few minutes after departing Lindenwood yard, St. Louis, MO. The SD45 shows off the unique L-shaped windshield option that only a few roads went for.... (more)

A stop while driving from Fort Worth to KC between training assignments netted this view at Frisco's Cherokee yard service track in 1980. The Frisco SD45's had the L shaped windshield that only a ... (more)

Frisco #1501, a Baldwin product of 1923, has recently had a cosmetic restoration. This is how park engines should look. Good job by all involved.

Frisco (SLSF) EMD SD45 900 and 910 with GE U25B 817. Photo part of my slide collection, no photographer listed.

Frisco manifest heads east.