Frisco Meteor 4501 by Richardphotos
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The Meteor was a named passenger train operated by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (a.k.a. SLSF or "the Frisco"). It ran overnight between Oklahoma City and St. Louis via Tulsa. The name was shared with a branch line Meteor running between Monett, Missouri, and Paris, Texas. Later this line was truncated to terminate at Fort Smith, Arkansas. These Frisco trains should not be confused with Amtrak's Silver Meteor.
Frisco locomotives No. 4500, 4501 and 4502, three of twenty-five Northern class Baldwin 4-8-4s built for Frisco during World War II were designated for use on the Meteor. These locomotives were delivered in a distinctive zephyr blue, white and gray paint scheme with "Meteor" spelled out across the tender in bold red lettering. These three passenger engines also saw service pulling the Texas Special. In 1948, Frisco 4501 still in its Meteor livery pulled President Harry S. Truman's whistle stop tour train through his home state of Missouri.
When the Meteor was converted to use diesel locomotives, No. 4500 was re-painted into Frisco's standard black with gold striping and lettering and assigned to passenger trains such as the General Wood and the Will Rogers.
Engine No. 4501 resides at the Museum of the American Railroad, in Texas.[1] The restored Engine No. 4500 resides in Route 66 Station Park, also known as Route 66 Village, in Tulsa, OK.[2]
The new streamlined, diesel equipped Meteor began westbound operations on May 14, 1948, with its first eastbound train departing Oklahoma City on May 15. Frisco purchased the EMD E7 locomotives and Pullman cars for the Meteor at the same time as they purchased ones for the Texas Special, so the two trains shared a distinctive look; bright red with corrugated aluminum side panels. Frisco bought sets of named cars for each train. Wikipedia
Comments (44)
mgtcs
Very cool shot Richard, amazing perspective and information!
jocko500
very wonderful
starship64 Online Now!
Another beautiful old train picture. Fantastic shot.
GARAGELAND
A very sleak shot!
dakotabluemoon
Great capture of this train.
VDH
Impressive engine!
flavia49
wonderful shot
MarciaGomes
Fenomenal foto Richard a locomotiva é fantástica os detalhes são maravilhosos.+++++++++5 Obrigado pela narração.
Bampster
Great capture!!!!!
sharky_
I enjoyed watching the trains back in college days...a whole line of cars.... Aloha
tigertim
Nice to see these US steam engines.. thanks for sharing your photo's.
Windigo
Thank you, Thank you!! If only my hands and eyes would let me model these now!! The only honor I can impart is the heartfelt joy of viewing them - such a wonderful image to share!!!
farmerC
Shining shot.
0rest4wicked
Great narrative to go along with this Richard!