St. Louis-San Francisco passenger trains are part of Classic Trains‘ editors’ celebration of the Frisco all through May 2022.
Oklahoma City–St. Louis Meteor arriving St. Louis, 1940s.
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St. Louis–Oklahoma City Meteor southwest of Tulsa, 1949.
Royce Craig
St. Louis–Oklahoma City Will Rogers at Spencer, Okla., 1948.
Preston George
No. 2005 Winchester has the grilles and portholes of an E8, but it’s really an E7, as indicated by the louvers behind the cab door. For the sake of appearance, Frisco modified its E7As to look like its E8As.
Frisco
Oklahoma City–St. Louis Meteor arriving St. Louis, 1948.
Paul Gibbs
St. Louis–Texas Bluebonnet departing St. Louis, 1940s.
R. J. Foster
Kansas City–Springfield, Mo., local near Dodson, Mo., with Decapod 1621 substituting for usual 1000-series Pacific, March 22, 1949.
Don Smith
Fort Scott, Kans.–Joplin, Mo., local with coach from Kansas City on the Texas Flash at Pittsburgh, Kans., July 12, 1947.
Kenneth Casford
Tulsa, Okla.–Vernon, Tex., local at Hobert, Okla., April 1946.
Charles M. Mizell Jr.
St. Louis–Oklahoma City Twin Meteor at Jones, Okla., March 1946.
Preston George
Springfield, Mo.–Memphis Sunnyland south of Mammoth Spring, Ark., early 1950s.
J. M. Gray
Jacksonville–Kansas City Kansas City-Florida Special exiting Mississippi River bridge into Arkansas from Memphis, October 1950.
James G. La Vake
Observation car Joseph Pulitzer on rear of Texas Special at St. Louis, June 1949.
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St. Louis–Kansas City Oklahoman at Springfield, Mo., on its last run, May 13, 1967.
Jerry Moore
Oklahoma City–Kansas City Firefly departing Tulsa, Sept. 19, 1951.
Charles T. Mahan Jr.
St. Louis–Texas Texas Special at Dallas, June 1952.
R. S. Plummer
Oklahoma City–Kansas City Firefly departing Tulsa.
Frisco
Jacksonville–Kansas City Kansas City-Florida Special (left) meeting Kansas City–Jacksonville Kansas City-Florida Special at Winfield, Ala., May 28, 1955.
J. P. Lamb Jr.
Please enjoy this photo gallery of Frisco passenger trains selected from Kalmbach Media‘s David P. Morgan Library.
Since October 2019, Classic Trains’ editors have celebrated a different Fallen Flag, that is, a Class I railroad that has been felled by bankruptcy, merger, or outright take over — and whose name, logos, symbols, and colors are relegated to history.
All online Fallen Flags articles are available at Trains.com.
This photo gallery was originally published in November 2015.
The aerial photo of the standard steam train was the overnight Black Gold from Dallas to Tulsa, from the January 1950 Trains.
The aerial photo of the passenger train with the B&O sleeper was from a January 1950 Trains story by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who went up in a plane to photograph trains in the Tulsa area. The B&O sleeper was a through car from New York (Jersey City).
Nice to see 4501 as the opening picture. It’s in Frisco TX at the Museum of the American railroad now.
In Kansas, it’s Pittsburg (no h).
The caption for the Oklahoman’s last run should read “St. Louis-Oklahoma City,” not “Kansas City.” The Frisco had no St. Louis-Kansas City line.