friscobob
December 2nd, 2002, 09:51 AM
As most of you know, the house I moved into here in Sherman, Texas had an HO scale layout already built upstairs (or was it an HO scale layout with a house downstairs? graemlins/sure.gif )
Anyway, I now have a place for all my Frisco diesels (and a couple of UP six-axle engines) to run, and operate it as the Spring River Subdivision, loosely based on the Frisco main between Aurora and Seneca, MO. The layout also sports a lower-level branchline, which I'm operating as a branch of my imagineered Oklahoma & North Eastern. The branch is being relaid with code 83 and code 70 track, with all hidden staging track being code 100. The Frisco line is all code 100 (for now...... graemlins/wink.gif ).
The timeline is 1975-1980, the last five years of Frisco's existence. So far, the only foreign power is Union Pacific- one SD45 and one SD40-2. I hope to add Santa Fe and Seaboard Coast Line power (I saw locomotives from these roads running through Afton, OK, where I went to high school), and maybe even Southern Railway power if I get brave enough to build six-axle hi-nose power.
And for you Bad News fans (read: Matt graemlins/wink.gif ), I've got a Frisco hopper painted in Cascade Green (showed up just before the merger in 1980), and will add some BN power as well.
Since I'm living in a rental, I can't completely rebuild this RR to a single-track line (it's a two-track main), but I can use it to work on concepts for a Frisco-based model railroad.
Currently the line is under reconstruction- the main line is still intact, but I am reworking the branch line, and may add a spur to model the coal-fired power plant east of Monett (gives me a chance to run my 100-ton Frisco hoppers)
When I get a chance, I'll add a page to my Cyberspace Flagstop website on Yahoo! Geocities, complete with a trackplan and pics.
Until then, highball QLA!
Anyway, I now have a place for all my Frisco diesels (and a couple of UP six-axle engines) to run, and operate it as the Spring River Subdivision, loosely based on the Frisco main between Aurora and Seneca, MO. The layout also sports a lower-level branchline, which I'm operating as a branch of my imagineered Oklahoma & North Eastern. The branch is being relaid with code 83 and code 70 track, with all hidden staging track being code 100. The Frisco line is all code 100 (for now...... graemlins/wink.gif ).
The timeline is 1975-1980, the last five years of Frisco's existence. So far, the only foreign power is Union Pacific- one SD45 and one SD40-2. I hope to add Santa Fe and Seaboard Coast Line power (I saw locomotives from these roads running through Afton, OK, where I went to high school), and maybe even Southern Railway power if I get brave enough to build six-axle hi-nose power.
And for you Bad News fans (read: Matt graemlins/wink.gif ), I've got a Frisco hopper painted in Cascade Green (showed up just before the merger in 1980), and will add some BN power as well.
Since I'm living in a rental, I can't completely rebuild this RR to a single-track line (it's a two-track main), but I can use it to work on concepts for a Frisco-based model railroad.
Currently the line is under reconstruction- the main line is still intact, but I am reworking the branch line, and may add a spur to model the coal-fired power plant east of Monett (gives me a chance to run my 100-ton Frisco hoppers)
When I get a chance, I'll add a page to my Cyberspace Flagstop website on Yahoo! Geocities, complete with a trackplan and pics.
Until then, highball QLA!