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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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Frisco Black in the Gloom
Title:  Frisco Black in the Gloom
Description:  It's local sunset at Tulsa as GP7 516 idles in a consist.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 6:02:06 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 516(GP7)
Views:  465   Comments: 1
Rock Island Geeps face off
Title:  Rock Island Geeps face off
Description:  Two generations of Rock Island Geeps look at each other in the road's El Reno engine terminal. GP35 324 came from EMD in 1965; GP9 1321 is eight years older and one of the few RI GP7s or 9s that received a chopped nose during its life.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 7:05:03 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 1321(GP9)
Views:  1265   Comments: 2
RI 531
Title:  RI 531
Description:  Rock Island SW1 531 at OKC in Aug 1974.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 5/25/2008 9:19:11 AM
Location:  Oklahoma City, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 531(SW1)
Views:  1044   Comments: 3
Tulsa Dusk
Title:  Tulsa Dusk
Description:  Three Frisco units prepare to depart Tulsa's Cherokee Yard at dusk in the summer of 1974. GP38-2 407 is followed by sister 421 and U30B 836.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 3:52:52 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 407(GP38-2) SLSF 421(GP38-2) SLSF 836(U30B)
Views:  990   Comments: 0
TP GP9M 109
Title:  TP GP9M 109
Description:  TP 109 is the former Midland Valley 153. Built as a GP7 in 1953, it was involved in a collision at Bokoshe OK and rebuilt by EMD as a GP9M while retaining its original number (MV 153) and a new builders number. It eventually become TP 109 within the Missouri Pacific system. Not long after this picture was taken it was renumbered 1696 and survived until 1979. It's shown here on what used to be home rails, the former MV yard in Tulsa OK.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 3:53:13 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 109(GP9)
Views:  1487   Comments: 2
Katy Changes Colors
Title:  Katy Changes Colors
Description:  Katy FP7 78C shows new paint at OKC in the summer of 1974 while GP7 97 sits on an adjacent track still in Barriger-era red. In a couple of years it will get its nose chopped and get the new hues as well.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 4/18/2009 10:11:40 PM
Location:  Oklahoma City, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 78C(FP7A) MKT 97(GP7)
Views:  1295   Comments: 3
Rock Island SW8 838
Title:  Rock Island SW8 838
Description:  Rock Island had a large fleet of six-cylinder EMD switchers to work its yards and perform branch work. SW8 838, the last of 25 on the road, is shown at El Reno.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 5/27/2009 10:58:37 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 838(SW8)
Views:  778   Comments: 0
On the El Reno back lot
Title:  On the El Reno back lot
Description:  RI F9A 4166 was one of a batch of F-units the Rock Island bought from UP in 1972. The group had originally been built as F3s and rebuilt to F9s by EMD in 1959. 4166 is shown here dead behind the El Reno shops awaiting work.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 5/28/2009 9:41:23 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4166(F9A)
Views:  980   Comments: 0
Trip Trey
Title:  Trip Trey
Description:  Rock Island GP35 333 sits at the road's El Reno terminal in the summer of 1974.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 5/28/2009 9:40:45 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 333(GP35)
Views:  1599   Comments: 1
Rock Island NW2 769
Title:  Rock Island NW2 769
Description:  RI NW2 769 sits in the ready line at El Reno in August 1974
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 10:36:25 AM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 769(NW2)
Views:  767   Comments: 0
Katy Pit Stop
Title:  Katy Pit Stop
Description:  Katy used this car for locomotive fueling at OKC in the mid-seventies. It appears to be filled by company tank cars and uses gravity to do the job.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:16:22 PM
Location:  Oklahoma City, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives: 
Views:  1510   Comments: 2
KO&G depot, Miami OK
Title:  KO&G depot, Miami OK
Description:  The east side of the former KO&G depot at Miami, OK in August 1974. The line through here was abandoned in the early '60s with some trackage being taken over by the Frisco to serve local industry. The structure itself no longer stands.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 9:31:27 PM
Location:  Miami, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  317   Comments: 0
Weeds
Title:  Weeds
Description:  Clearance sign and tracks at the former KO&G depot in Miami OK.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 9:31:03 PM
Location:  Miami, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  275   Comments: 0
Switching under threatening skies
Title:  Switching under threatening skies
Description:  Frisco GP7 615 works the old Northeast Oklahoma (NEO) trackage in Miami OH while a thunderstorm approaches from the west. The steam generator stack has a nice crease in it. 615 would be sold to the ICG and be rebuilt into a "GP8" in that road's Paducah shops.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 10/13/2008 10:22:07 PM
Location:  Miami, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 615(GP7)
Views:  796   Comments: 0
SLSF SW7 302
Title:  SLSF SW7 302
Description:  Frisco SW7 302 works tank cars in the Tulsa Yard late on a summer afternoon in 1974. SLSF had only five SW7s; these reliable, if somewhat unremarkable units all made it to the BN merger.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 10/13/2008 10:22:42 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 302(SW7)
Views:  998   Comments: 1
Frisco GP38-2s
Title:  Frisco GP38-2s
Description:  A pair of Frisco GP38-2s head for their train in the Tulsa Yard
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 1/25/2008 8:21:55 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 408(GP38-2)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
Rock Island F7A 124
Title:  Rock Island F7A 124
Description:  Rock Island F7A 124 bears the scars of many years of hard work; it's shown here at El Reno in Jan 1975.
Photo Date:  1/7/1975  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 10:35:22 AM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 124(F7A)
Views:  1103   Comments: 2
CRIP SW1 534
Title:  CRIP SW1 534
Description:  Rock Island SW1 534 rests between jobs at Chickasha OK in August 1975
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 1/15/2011 3:18:30 PM
Location:  Chickasha, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 534(SW1)
Views:  925   Comments: 3
Hot Day in Duke
Title:  Hot Day in Duke
Description:  Hollis & Eastern's GE 80T 100 has all of its button holes open for cooling as it idles at Duke OK in August 1975. The unit is former Army 7204 (15744, 9/42)
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 8/18/2008 10:33:36 PM
Location:  Duke, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HE 100(80Tonner)
Views:  947   Comments: 0
Frisco Geep at Okmulgee
Title:  Frisco Geep at Okmulgee
Description:  Frisco GP7 510 idles at Okmulgee between trips up the Muskogee branch
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2013 8:50:32 PM
Location:  Okmulgee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 510(GP7)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
Frisco Geep at Okmulgee
Title:  Frisco Geep at Okmulgee
Description:  The Frisco's Muskogee branch connected with the Sapulpa to Dallas main at Okmulgee. GP7 510 idles there in August 1975.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 3:54:01 PM
Location:  Okmulgee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 510(GP7)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
Frisco Geeps in OKC
Title:  Frisco Geeps in OKC
Description:  Two SLSF GP7s, 505 and 504, sit at the engine facility in Oklahoma City in August 1975. They would both be retired in 1977.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 10/13/2008 10:20:59 PM
Location:  Oklahoma City, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 505(GP7) SLSF 504(GP7)
Views:  982   Comments: 0
Santa Fe local power
Title:  Santa Fe local power
Description:  Santa Fe branchline power of the mid-70s; a CF7 and a GP20 idle at Altus.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 1/16/2008 10:31:14 PM
Location:  Altus, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ATSF 2558(CF7)
Views:  1008   Comments: 1
Late afternoon CF7
Title:  Late afternoon CF7
Description:  It's late in the day at Shawnee OK and the local is tied up next to the depot, the unit's 567 engine chanting to itself as it waits for tomorrows work. Although the day has been stiffling hot, a cool breeze has kicked up, the cicadas are screaming and everything's right in the Sooner State.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 3/10/2008 7:48:24 PM
Location:  Shawnee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2567(CF7)
Views:  975   Comments: 1
Okmulgee Depot
Title:  Okmulgee Depot
Description:  The Frisco depot at Okmulgee OK
Photo Date:  8/18/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2013 8:51:05 PM
Location:  Okmulgee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  155   Comments: 0
MP (TP) Caboose 12235
Title:  MP (TP) Caboose 12235
Description:  MP (TP) caboose 12235 at Muskogee OK in August 1975. It's the former KO&G 1543, built in 1952 and retired in 1977.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 10/29/2010 10:37:54 PM
Location:  Muskogee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  678   Comments: 1
MP GP18 1941
Title:  MP GP18 1941
Description:  MP GP18 1941 at Muskogee OK (Shopton) in August 1975.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 10/29/2010 10:36:37 PM
Location:  Muskogee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 1941(GP18)
Views:  604   Comments: 2
Katy Local Behind a Single GP40
Title:  Katy Local Behind a Single GP40
Description:  Katy GP40 204 runs a local northbound at Pryor OK in 1975
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 9:31:51 PM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 204(GP40)
Views:  218   Comments: 0
Katy Geeps at Pryor
Title:  Katy Geeps at Pryor
Description:  A pair of Katy GP7s idle at Pryor OK in the summer of 1975. 115 is still in Deramus paint; the other unit, 113, is in Barringer red.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 6:15:32 PM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 115(GP7)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
Katy GP7 113
Title:  Katy GP7 113
Description:  Katy GP7 113 in red at Pryor OK. My big brother Mark shot this unit and has it posted as well- but a whole year later.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 6:16:07 PM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 113(GP7)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
Shopton
Title:  Shopton
Description:  Shopton was located on Muskogee's southeast side and was the shops for the appropriately named Muskogee Lines. The shops were still being used by MP in 1975 for car repairs. This is the engine facility, with several cabooses and a pair of GP18s around to work what was left of the old Midland Valley.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 1/13/2008 3:33:40 PM
Location:  Muskogee, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  834   Comments: 1
Former KO&G depot
Title:  Former KO&G depot
Description:  When the Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf abandoned its line to Baxter Springs KS in 1962 the Frisco took over a small portion of tracks in Miami OK to serve local industries. The old KO&G depot remained for several years before being demolished.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 2/20/2008 10:49:05 PM
Location:  Miami, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  670   Comments: 3
NEO Shops
Title:  NEO Shops
Description:  The NEO was merged into the SLSF in 1964 yet its former shops remained through the 1970s as a base for Frisco locals in the area.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 2/20/2008 10:49:35 PM
Location:  Miami, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  369   Comments: 0
Katy local power at Pryor
Title:  Katy local power at Pryor
Description:  A pair of red Katy geeps sit at the Pryor, OK depot awaiting their next call for local duty in August 1975.
Photo Date:  8/19/1975  Upload Date: 4/6/2008 5:29:15 PM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  MKT 115(GP7)
Views:  641   Comments: 1
TSU
Title:  TSU
Description:  Tulsa Sapulpa Union 101, the ex Wabash 105, sits in Tulsa.
Photo Date:  12/17/1975  Upload Date: 1/24/2008 8:15:23 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TSU 101(SW1)
Views:  754   Comments: 1
Road Warrior
Title:  Road Warrior
Description:  Rock Island GP7 1232 still shows its stripes at El Reno in December 1975. It was later rebuilt into RI 4461 and eventually became CNW 4136.
Photo Date:  12/18/1975  Upload Date: 7/12/2010 9:39:22 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 1232(GP7)
Views:  665   Comments: 0
Big Red
Title:  Big Red
Description:  Looking older than its two years, a late afternoon winter sun accents Rock Island U30C 4586 at El Reno in December 1975.
Photo Date:  12/18/1975  Upload Date: 7/12/2010 9:39:04 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4586(U30C)
Views:  1031   Comments: 0
Going to work
Title:  Going to work
Description:  RI GP18 1341 is prepared to head out for its train late on a December afternoon. After Rock Island's demise it would be sold to Chrome Crankshaft and eventually end up on New England Southern.
Photo Date:  12/18/1975  Upload Date: 4/27/2008 10:35:28 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 1341(GP18)
Views:  852   Comments: 0
Rock Island in Cherry Red
Title:  Rock Island in Cherry Red
Description:  Rock Island received 20 GP40s from EMD in 1970 with the financial help of UP, which were numbered in the 4700 series in anticipation of a merger with the bigger road that never ocurred. They ended up going to the UP after the Rock's 1980 shutdown, 4705 becoming UP 636. It has since become MNA 4014.
Photo Date:  12/18/1975  Upload Date: 4/29/2008 7:38:07 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4705(GP40)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
CRIP 4153
Title:  CRIP 4153
Description:  Rock Island F9A 4153 in cherry red at El Reno in Dec 1975; the ex UP 517.
Photo Date:  12/18/1975  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 10:35:43 AM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4153(F9AM)
Views:  751   Comments: 0
CRIP 4154
Title:  CRIP 4154
Description:  Another ex-UP F9A on the Rock Island- 4154 sits at the El Reno wash rack in December 1975. Built as an F3A in 1948, it was rebuilt as an F9A IN 1958 and sold to the RI in 1972
Photo Date:  12/18/1975  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 10:35:53 AM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4154(F9AM)
Views:  1332   Comments: 0
Santa Fe in Clinton
Title:  Santa Fe in Clinton
Description:  ATSF GP7U 2003 sits in downtown Clinton OK in 1976
Photo Date:  1/7/1976  Upload Date: 1/31/2011 12:45:11 PM
Location:  Clinton, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ATSF 2003(GP7u)
Views:  585   Comments: 1
The Rock Works Enid
Title:  The Rock Works Enid
Description:  Rock Island GP7 4434 has a Katy covered hopper in tow as it works in Enid Oklahoma. It's the former RI 1236 and would become CNW 4109. The open auto rack next to it appears to have a load of Ford pick-ups.
Photo Date:  5/9/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2010 9:20:48 PM
Location:  Enid, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4434(GP7R)
Views:  806   Comments: 2
SLSF GP7 512
Title:  SLSF GP7 512
Description:  Frisco GP7 512 at Enid, OK in May 1976; very typical of the Geeps that the road used on its many branches to gather grain.
Photo Date:  5/9/1976  Upload Date: 4/6/2012 5:41:28 PM
Location:  Enid, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 512(GP7)
Views:  552   Comments: 0
SLSF GP7 521
Title:  SLSF GP7 521
Description:  Frisco GP7 521 at Enid in May 1976; one of five in the yard during that visit.
Photo Date:  5/9/1976  Upload Date: 4/6/2012 5:41:52 PM
Location:  Enid, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 521(GP7)
Views:  336   Comments: 2
Frisco at Enid
Title:  Frisco at Enid
Description:  SLSF GP7 526 idles in the yard at Enid OK in May 1976
Photo Date:  5/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2010 9:20:30 PM
Location:  Enid, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 526(GP7)
Views:  421   Comments: 1
The Red Carpet Line
Title:  The Red Carpet Line
Description:  The Northwest Oklahoma RR operates a short piece of former MKT trackage out of Woodward. Here 44T no1 works cars in town during a May 1976 visit.
Photo Date:  5/10/1976  Upload Date: 2/20/2008 11:11:58 PM
Location:  Woodward, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NOKL 1(44Tonner)
Views:  1518   Comments: 0
SLSF GP38-2 478
Title:  SLSF GP38-2 478
Description:  Frisco GP38-2 478 at Chelsea Ok; only about six months old in May 1977. The train was powered by 478, U25B 802, and GP38-2s 419/676.
Photo Date:  5/12/1977  Upload Date: 6/2/2012 10:20:24 AM
Location:  Chelsea, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 478(GP38-2)
Views:  487   Comments: 1
SLSF GP35 713
Title:  SLSF GP35 713
Description:  Frisco GP35 713 is shown in the Tulsa engine facility in May 1977. It became BN 2563 in 1980.
Photo Date:  5/12/1977  Upload Date: 10/13/2008 10:21:33 PM
Location:  Tulsa, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 713(GP35)
Views:  821   Comments: 1
The units may be blue but the books are red
Title:  The units may be blue but the books are red
Description:  The Rock's light blue was certainly a cheery color, but it didn't stave off the eventual 1980 collapse of the line.
Photo Date:  5/13/1977  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 7:04:54 PM
Location:  El Reno, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4306(GP38-2) CRIP 4317(GP38-2)
Views:  1762   Comments: 3


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