Haven't heard of it. Are they still building it?You name your railroad to bring in the revenue, be it the movement of goods or people.
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'We cover it all - across the entire continent.'
Historically a very important railroad in the western USA. This is the railroad that US Route 66 followed. The Atlantic and Pacific started in Springfield Missouri to build west. Because of several financial fiasco's the A&P incorporated the Frisco, and immediately leased all the Missouri assets to it. More financial messes and the Frisco and Santa Fe ended up jointly owing the A&P in New Mexico. Finally more Frisco messes and the Santa Fe ended up with the line which became their mainline to the west coast.Haven't heard of it. Are they still building it?
Not an "Old Fart" for nothing you knowI wonder if that FART railway goes, "TOOT - TOOT"? (no reference to RAY-lol)
This book's title and subject might be the clue. Was John Allen also a devotee of Bass fishing.Toot: John Allen's play on words, you maybe correct about a female called Helen. But, who was Sowbelly?
Greg
The Frisco is one railroad that financially did not deserve to even exist, let alone survive into 1980.
I been collecting models of rolling stock from prototype railroads that have strange or different names.
What is the strangest names of models of prototype railroads that you have found?
Thanks.
Greg
Memory hasn't failed completely. ATSF and SLSF jointly took over the A&P, but when A&P failed in 1893, SLSF got the land grants in Missouri, while ATSF retained the ones across the Mojave Desert. I think that I stated this correctly. SLSF never owned ATSF.Them's fight'in words, IH!
Unless my memory has completely failed, I believe the SLSF actually owned the ATSF at one point in history!
It is sort of the other way around, however the Santa Fe never actualy "owned" the Frisco just operated it for a time, while it was in bankrupcy. Just like they operated the Rio Grande for a while.Unless my memory has completely failed, I believe the SLSF actually owned the ATSF at one point in history!