...look an awful lot like a model railroad! 

I was amazed to see a few scenes of red & silver "warbonnet" F consists leading freight trains.  Being from the East Coast, I always believed those were only used on passenger trains (different gear ratios, etc.)...

Very high quality video work for that period, it rivals anything Emery Gulash ever did!

ditto: using SF F units on freights. I always thought they were passenger only.

Amazing variety of shots. Thanks for posting this! It was really entertaining and educational.

Chris

 

I noticed that A-B-B-A set on the freight, too, but figured it was just something to do with all those surplus F-units as passenger service was on the outs. Running them like that would not pose problems except they couldn't pull as much as freight F's and couldn't achieve their top speeds in freight service. As long as they didn't mix them with freight power the gearing wouldn't be an issue. This is about the only way Santa Fe could use them until the CF7 program turned them into road switchers. Now there was one train that was pretty famous in the 60's which was called the Super C; it was a hotshot piggyback express between Chicago and LA. It always ran with warbonnet passenger F's because they were the only power that could keep up to the schedule. I don't think that the train in the photo was that hot, though.

Those are cool pics.. not at all my "prototype region" but interesting.

However, I don't really feel the flash movie format is good for this sort of thing, even "extra large". Pixelated images just don't do it for me. I hope MRH theater sticks to movies and leaves still photos for a more appropriate format. Maybe I have just been spoiled by all the excellent images available on the net these days.

I dont wan't to appear ungrateful, I appreciate the sharing, just wish they were regular jpg images.

Regards,

Chris

I started with the Mopac in the 1970's and KC was my headquarters for a year.  Remember the local railroaders nicknamed the KCS the 'haywire' due to their (light) rail used in earlier years. 

Was fun to see the Milwaukee and Frisco again, the KCS and Milwaukee shared a yard north of Mopac Neff Yard.     

Thanks for sharing those pictures, they are just fantastic!!!

I can never get enough of looking at the pictures of the glory days. When each railroad was proud of themselves and there heritage.

 

Thank You!!

As a matter of reference, most of the Frisco pictures on the slideshow were taken on the Wichita Subdivision at the small rural towns of Severy, Beaumont, and Leon located between 50 ad 70 mile west of Wichita. This is the line that I am currently modeling and my wife is from near Severy. The shots at Beaumont have a special point of emphasis as the water tower in the background has been completely restored and put on the National Register of Historic Places. One can even fly into there (on a small plane), taxi up a street right past the tank, and have a meal and /or stay at the historic Beaumont Hotel which has been converted into a Bed & Breakfast. http://www.hotelbeaumontks.com/

The tracks a long gone, but the atmosphere is still there. Even into the early diesel days when these photos were taken there was a small hose by the main line and on hot days sometimes it was necessary to "take on water" on some of the old geeps that were converted from their boiler equipped days.

Thanks for the wonderful memories brought back in these pictures.

Bob Hoover

FriscoFriend

I just finished watching  Rail fanning the Kansas City area (1960-1970)
I thought was interesting to see U50's in the Kansas City area
I enjoyed seeing the images.

Mike

Sweet slide show! 

Seeing the beautiful Santa Fe F units brought back great memories.

Gary