Frisco St. Louis Operations

St. Louis Terminal Facilities and Operations This is part of an April 1960 brochure prepared by the sales department of the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway Company, that documents primary and secondary yards, train handling, freight houses, team tracks, Frisco Transportation Company (trucking), and terminal switching lines. The section…

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MoPac St. Louis Terminal Division

This is a digital scan of the pages from the 1973 revision of Missouri Pacific’s Industrial Track Numbers and Spotting Codes. The original is from the collection of noted author and Missouri Pacific modeler, Joe Collias. The scanned pages of the entire document are available here as a single downloadable…

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Yard Improvement

Our track building team recently completed a small project in Lindenwood Yard, designed to help improve traffic flow of trains passing through the yard property. The by-pass track, highlighted in yellow in the image, was extended beyond the crossover that links the two arrival & departure tracks. Previosuly, the by…

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Coonskins & Buzzsaws

No model railroad layout claiming to represent Saint Louis in the nineteen-seventies would be complete without including the Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway (FRISCO) and the Missouri Pacific Lines (MOPAC). Because of their shape, Frisco’s emblem was know as the ‘Frisco coonskin‘ and Missouri Pacific’s logo of this era was commonly…

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Front End Fest

Locomotives for three of the many railroads operating on the Saint Louis Lines pose for the official layout photographer as a couple of commuters at the station seem unimpressed at the spectacle. Locomotive power from left to right: Missouri Pacific (MoPac) U23B #2254, St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) GP38 #638, and…

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