From Railroad Gazette or Railway Age: Nov 13, 1922. StL-SF closed bids for a 300-ton concrete coaling station at Fort Smith, and will also construct a storeroom. The contract for the coaling station was awarded to Roberts & Schaefer Company, Chicago. |
Bill Pollard Contribution |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 4-6-0 #619, 1927. |
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| 1935 flood |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 4-6-0 #523 sits on the dead line in Ft. Smith, 3/18/34. It was scraped in 1936. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 2-8-0 #1312 appears to being used as the powerhouse boiler, 4/12/36. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 4-6-0 #748 sits on the ready track, 8/26/36. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 4-6-0 #1407 sits on one of the garden tracks of the earlier roundhouse, 8/26/36. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 4-6-0 #1404 sits on the ready track, 1/4/37. |
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Mike Condren Collection
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Construction of new Frisco roundhouse in Ft. Smith |
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Mike Condren Collection |
Construction of new Frisco roundhouse in Ft. Smith |
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Mike Condren Collection |
Construction of new Frisco roundhouse in Ft. Smith |
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H. E. Huber Collection |
Construction of new Frisco roundhouse in Ft. Smith |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 4-6-0 #709 sits in the Ft. Smith engine terminal, 9/40. |
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Jack Avery Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1310 sits in the Ft. Smith engine terminal, 7/4/43. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 4-6-0 #709 Ft. Smith, 8/11/45 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1320 Ft. Smith, 9/3/45 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1332 sits beside the Ft. Smith coaling tower, 2/18/46 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 4-6-0 #715 Ft. Smith, 3/16/46 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 4-6-2 #1049 sits next to the Ft. Smith coaling tower, 5/3/47. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-2 #4004 sits on the service track outside the Ft. Smith roundhouse, 7/7/47. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 4-6-0 #739 sits on a "garden track" outside the Ft. Smith roundhouse, 7/47. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 0-6-0 #3751 in Ft. Smith, 9/27/47. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 0-6-0 #3674 sits in the engine terminal, 4/21/48. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1312 sits in the engine terminal, 7/48. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1323 sits beside the coaling, 7/3/48. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1335 rides the turntable in the engine terminal, 7/48. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 2-8-2 #4004 Ft. Smith, 9/18/48 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 2-8-2 #4013 Ft. Smith, 9/23/48 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 2-8-2 #4032 Ft. Smith, 10/2/48 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 4-6-0 #711 Ft. Smith, 11/21/48 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-10-0 #1626 Ft. Smith, 1949. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-2 #4020 Ft. Smith, 2/7/49. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 4-6-2 #1030 sits on a garden track at Ft. Smith, 2/28/49. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1334 Ft. Smith, 2/12/50 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1327 Ft. Smith, 2/25/50 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1309 Ft. Smith, 3/1/50 |
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Louis Marre Collection |
Ft. Smith garden tracks with 3744, 3674 (coal), 709, 1015, and 1332, 9/30/51 |
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Wm. K. Robbins Jr, Louis Marre Collection |
| Frisco 0-6-0 #3744 sits in the garden tracks outside the roundhouse in 1951. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1331 and Whitcomb 44-ton #3 in Ft. Smith, 12/51. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco 2-8-0 #1331 Ft. Smith, Summer 1952. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
| Sperry Rail Service detector car #134 pauses in front of the Ft. Smith Frisco station during its inspection run, 7/9/56. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
GP7 #534 sits on the turntable while FP7 #5047 sits inside the roundhouse, 7/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
FP7 #5047 sits on the turntable , 12/20/57. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
| Frisco Davenport 44-ton switcher #1 sits on the turntable at Ft. Smith while #2 sits on the lead track to stall #1, 7/58. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco FP7 #5048 sits outside of the roundhouse, 12/21/58. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
| Frisco #554 was built by ALCo as a RS2 with a model-244 engine but was rebuilt by EMD with a model-567 engine, 7/20/60. |
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| Frisco FP7 #5045, a F9B, and another FP7 sist near the sand house before taking an elongated #710 with several extra cars of soldiers from Fort Chaffee, 2/17/62. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Quanah Acme and Pacific GP7 #546 is one of three QA&P GP7s, in Ft. Smith, 5/63 |
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Louis Marre Collection |
| SLSF VO1000 #207 sits in the engine terminal on 6/29/07. |
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| 8/8/63 |
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3/30/64 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco FA1 #5210 was one of the last 244-powered unit running on the system when this photo was taken in 4/64. |
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Frisco F3 #5006 was one of the last such units operating on the Frisco, in Ft. Smith, 2/1/65 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco FA-1 #5216 wears the "cigar band" scheme that preceded the mandarin orange and white paint scheme, 3/65. | <
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5/3/68 |
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Elliott Kahn Photo, Louis Marre Collection |
| SLSF VO1000 #222 sits outside the Ft. Smith roundhouse on 8/12/70. |
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3/5/72 |
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| 7/73 |
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| 12/27/73 |
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2/74 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco GP38 #649 sits on the ready track with a consist for the night's #730 train, 6/27/75. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
Frisco GP38 #650 sits on the ready track with a consist for the night's #730 train, 6/28/75. |
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Frisco GP38-2 #453 on the turntable of the engine
terminal in Ft. Smith, 11/75 |
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A W McBride Photo |
| This staged photo of the power for #730 was broken down and placed on the roundhouse tracks and the turntable. |
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Mike Condren Collection |
Locomotive and cars wash station. |
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Mike Condren Collection |
Turning the RPO on the turntable. |
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Mike Condren Collection |
Turning the Pullman on the turntable. |
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