Frisco put a very pretty painting on the cover of its timetables, but they used this illustration for more than 12 years, from at least 1953 through 1965. One reason to change covers is to alert passengers that schedules have … Continue reading
These little flyers were inserted in the Frisco Lines and Ozark menus presented here a couple of days ago, but that must have been done by some other rail collector as the 1967 dates on these flyers doesn’t match the … Continue reading
We’ve seen the cover illustration of the two locomotives before on a postcard advertising the Texas Special (represented by the locomotive with the star on the nose) and the Meteor (represented by the locomotive with the Frisco logo on the … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s, this menu doesn’t have an actual menu printed on the inside, though there are some filagree lines printed in red for trim. Also like yesterday’s, this menu has the “Frisco Faster Freight” logo on the back, dating it … Continue reading
This rather plain menu doesn’t actually have a menu on the inside, but the inside is printed with an elaborate logo and some blue trim. The logo includes the face of a steam locomotive, while the back cover has the … Continue reading
Here are four more comic blotters from the Quanah, Acme and Pacific whose scans were donated by a Streamliner Memories reader. Two of them emphasize that the QA&P was completely Dieselized by 1954, ahead of many class I railroads. Of … Continue reading
The railroad that became the Quanah, Acme & Pacific once had ambitions to spread across the width of Texas, but only made it about 117 miles. One early investor was Harry Koch, a newspaper publisher and grandfather of today’s Koch … Continue reading
Here are two more Frisco calendars from the Karl Poythress collection. Both show one truck from a freight car with the slogan, “When your freight goes Frisco, your freight goes!” Click image to download a 389-KB PDF of this calendar. … Continue reading
For the 1966 and 1968 calendars, General Electric U25B locomotives replaced the F3 locomotives that appeared on the 1964 calendar. Frisco had also painted its freight locomotives in a red-and-white scheme reminiscent of its no-longer-operating red-and-silver passenger streamliners. This was … Continue reading
These might be called desk calendars: slightly bigger than 7″x9″, they are too big to be pocket calendars and too small to be wall calendars. The 1955 edition has a resplendent image of a red-and-silver passenger train — either the … Continue reading
