We’ve seen this cover on Frisco timetables from 1959, 1964, and 1965. At least a couple of trains have disappeared since 1959, including the Kansas City-Tulsa Firefly and a train from St. Louis to Wichita. Click image to download a … Continue reading
This menu doesn’t have a date, but the prices look like the 1950s. Rather than a table d’hôte section, the menu offers five plate dinners along with some a la carte items. The plate dinners include haddock, half a fried … Continue reading
At 32 pages, Frisco’s 1964 timetable was the same length as in 1959. But in 1965, the page count dropped to just 20. Worse, just two of those pages were sufficient to list the timetables of all of Frisco’s remaining … Continue reading
The Kansas City-Oklahoma Firefly, Frisco’s first streamliner, bit the dust in 1960. While the Meteor was still on the timetable in 1964, it no longer went as far as Lawton, Oklahoma, terminating instead at Oklahoma City. The Meteor had also … Continue reading
From 1954 through 1965, Frisco timetables were graced with this beautiful painting of what is probably the Meteor pulled by E8 locomotives (or possibly E7s minus the stainless steel fluting). The idyllic scene on the cover disguises the contractions in … Continue reading
Frisch liked the six E7 locomotives (numbered 2000 to 2005) it purchased in 1948 for the Meteor and Texas Special so well that it soon added sixteen E8s (which were first made in 1949) for its other passenger trains. This … Continue reading
The Katy advertised the streamlined Texas Special with this blotter. Since the train was inaugurated in 1948, the blotter is probably from about that year. Click image to download a PDF of this blotter. In a rare example of coordination, … Continue reading
The mainline of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas or Katy railroad went from Omaha and Kansas City to Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. Although it also had a branch to St. Louis, the portion from St. Louis to Oklahoma was circuitous and slow. … Continue reading
This menu is from the same collector as yesterday’s, which means it is from about 1963. I originally interpreted the “D-44” code on the interior to mean it was from 1944, but the 44 must have had some other meaning … Continue reading
This menu from the collection of a former railway executive has a code, “B-42.” The B stands for breakfast but the number does not stand for 1942; the collector of this menu, who is generously sharing it with Streamliner Memories, … Continue reading
