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	Encyclopedia: St. Louis - San Francisco Railway
		Louis - San Francisco Railway (AAR reporting mark SLSF), also known as the Frisco, is a defunct U.S. railroad.
		Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company was incorporated in Missouri on 29 June 1896.
		The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CandO) was a Class 1 railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from many smaller railroads begun in the 19th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/St.-Louis-_-San-Francisco-Railway (1707 words)

	St. Louis-San Francisco Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis and San Francisco Railway was organized in 1876.
		Louis-San Francisco Railway (AAR reporting mark SLSF), also known as the Frisco, is a defunct U.S. railroad.
		Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which was incorporated in Missouri on 29 June 1896.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Louis_and_San_Francisco_Railway (448 words)

	California Southern Railway History
		For a large consideration, known as a subsidy, these railroad builders agreed to construct a railway from San Diego to Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and the Santa Fe would be extended south-westerly from Albuquerque to connect with it.
		Residents of the village of Old San Diego began efforts in the 1850 's, later in including those of New San Diego and National City, to obtain rail transportation and repeated attempts were made over a period of nearly 30 years, each ending in failure and frustration.
		On August 15, Colton was reached, meeting the Southern Pacific Railroad and San Diego was joined by rail with all parts of the country.
	www.sdrm.org /history/cs/calsouth.html (1916 words)

	AllRefer.com - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Business & Occupation, (Businesses And Occupations) - Encyclopedia
		In 1980, Burlington Northern acquired the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (chartered 1849).
		Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, railroad system in much of the United States (except the Northeast) and in S Canada, created in 1995 from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and the Santa Fe Pacific Corp. (see Santa Fe Railroad).
		In 1999 the system announced a $6 billion merger with the Canadian National Railway to create the largest railroad in North America, but in 2000 the deal was scrapped after the U.S. Surface Transportation Board froze all such mergers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BNSFRR.html (301 words)

	Frisco - Great Plains-West Rail Galleries
		The story of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company - known to its mid-South neighbors as Frisco - is a narrative of battles against long odds and of adaptation to changing circumstances.
		As a result, it went bankrupt.In 1876, the southwest branch of the Pacific was purchased by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.
		By 1951, the age of diesel had dawned and the 1522 was retired, donted to the Natonal Museum of Transport in St. Louis County, Missouri in 1959.
	www.trainweb.org /screamingeagle/gallery/slsf.html (577 words)

	The Towns of Franklin County, MO
		Pacific - A city of the fourth class, in Franklin County, on the Meramec River, at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railways, 34 miles west of St. Louis.
		A city of the fourth class, in Franklin County, on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, 68 miles southwest of St. Louis.
		From this probably came St. Peter's Evangelical Church, organized in 1845 by the Rev. Edward Arcularius; in 1845 it built a frame edifice, at a cost of $2,000; in 1852, one of brick, costing $3,500, and in 1868 the present structure, costing $15,000.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mofrankl/Towns.htm (1829 words)

	RICH HILL - Online Information article about RICH HILL
		LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0.
		Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span.
		It is served by the Missouri Pacific and the St. See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RHY_RON/RICH_HILL.html (298 words)

	A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri
		Seligman was platted on the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 23, Township 21, Range 28, for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co., and the plat was acknowledged by the company president, E. Winslow, September 27, 1880...
		Washburn, or Keetsville, at an altitude of 1,560 feet, is 8 miles southwest of Cassville, and 307 miles from St. Louis, on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad.
		The new town at the junction of the St. Louis and Texas Railroad with the Frisco Railroad, 282 miles southwest of St. Louis, is 1,305 feet above the level of that city.
	thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/moser/barrypl.html (4474 words)

	A Beginner's Guide to the Railroads of 1870
		FRISCO - (St. Louis-San Francisco Railway) By definition, this is the first railroad in the game as the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway private company allows the railroad to operate immediately without the sale of additional shares.
		COTTON BELT - (St. Louis Southwestern Railway) To start this railroad early, the Mississippi River Bridge Company private is essential.
		TP - (Texas and Pacific Railway) The Toilet Paper, as it is sometimes referred to, is actually liked by some people.
	www.mimgames.com /tga/tgg/strategy/1870.shtml (1116 words)

	Frisco 1522 Unofficial Web Site
		Retired by the Frisco in the early 1950s, she was donated to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis for display.
		In 1988, the all volunteer St. Louis Steam Train Association completed a 3 year restoration of the 1522, beginning her second career as an excursion engine throughout the Midwest and South.
		The St. Louis Steam Train Association was also dissolved at the end of 2002.
	www.frisco1522.org (411 words)

	California Southern Railway History
		The company had formed a partnership with the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway to build the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad on the authorized 35th parallel of latitude route from a junction at the present town of Isleta west to the Colorado River and into California.
		The Riverside, Santa Ana & Los Angeles Railway took over the line from Highgrove to Arlington and built from there to the present station of Atwood, over the Olive District to Orange and Santa Ana by September 15, 1887 and from Orange to Redondo Junction August 12, 1888.
		In June 1904 the Southern California Railway was leased to The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and complete acquisition of the former was effected in January 1906.
	www.sdrm.org /history/cs/perris.html (2102 words)

	The Frisco
		The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company was chartered on August 24, 1916, as successor to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company.
		On January 1, 1964, the Frisco merged a subsidiary, the St. Louis, San Francisco, and Texas Railway Company, into the parent company.
		In 1964 the Frisco operated over nearly 4,700 miles of track in nine midwestern and southern states, with major routes from St. Louis through Oklahoma to Texas and from Kansas City through Memphis to Birmingham and Pensacola, Florida.
	home.austin.rr.com /aldossantos/frisco.htm (207 words)

	Rail References
		He wound up in San Francisco, where he was hired to run the Port Madison sawmill on Puget Sound.
		He organized (1879) the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and gained a solid foothold in the transportation of the Pacific Northwest area.
		A ship or two landed goods, and the men cut down trees for shipment to San Francisco for much needed hard cash.
	www.northwestrailfan.com /references.htm (6308 words)

	St. Louis - San Francisco Railway Company: Development of Fixed Physical Property
		By construction: Fayetteville to Patrick, Ark., 1886-1887 25.620 Patrick to St. Paul, Ark., 1887 7.862 St. Paul to Pettigrew, Ark., 1897-98 7.990 ------ 41.292 Less: Fayetteville to Patrick sold to St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company, in 1887 25.620 ------ Mileage inventories at date of valuation 15.672
		The road owned by the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas on date of valuatioln had been acquired by purchase and construction.
		The owned mileage of the Frisco, amounting of 3,465.932 miles, was acquired by purchase from the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company and the Sapulpa and Oil Field Railroad, as detailed in the statement below.
	tacnet.missouri.org /~mgood/clintonrr/dfpp_slsf.html (197 words)

	LOUIS W. MENK: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
		Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, memorabilia, printed matter, and related papers documenting the career of this railroad executive who was president of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (1962-1965), the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company (1965-1966), the Northern Pacific Railway Company (1966-1970), and Burlington Northern Inc. (1970-1978, and chairman 1978-1981).
		Menk left college in 1940 to take a job as a telegrapher in Tulsa, Oklahoma with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco).
		He was later transferred to corporate headquarters in St. Louis where he served as vice president-operation (1960-1962), president (1962-1965), and chairman (1964-1965).
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00341pages/00583.html (2425 words)

	Gene Autry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St.
		Christened Orvon Gene Autry, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, near Tioga, Texas, his parents, Delbert Autry and Elnora Ozmont, moved to Ravia, Oklahoma in the 1920s.
		An amateur talent with the guitar and voice led to his performing at local dances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Autry (847 words)

	Age of Steam Railroad Museum - Steam Locomotive Frisco 4501
		Several of the 4500-class engines were rebuilt and stored near the end of steam in 1952, but remained behind St. Louis' Lindenwood roundhouse until scrapping or donation.
		Numbers 4500-4502 were built for passenger service on the "Meteor," an overnight train between St. Louis, Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
		Frisco's 4500 class was constructed based upon the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's O-5b class.
	www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com /frisco.html (283 words)

	Text Page: St. Louis and San Francisco Railway. / St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company / 1879
		Louis and San Francisco Railway befordert Fracht und Passagiere zu den billigsten Preisen!
		(map on verso) Map of Missouri, showing line and land grant of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, and its connections.
		/ St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company / 1879
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps910096-24451.html (405 words)

	OSCN Found Document:ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. McBRIDE
		OSCN Found Document:ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v.
		James L. Homire, St. Louis, Mo., Rupert Fogg, El Reno, Franklin and Harmon, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.
		In determining whether the attorney's conduct had that effect, despite the trial judge's corrective measures, we look to the record and consider all of the pertinent facts and circumstances shown therein.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=32088 (2664 words)

	The Frisco Railroad comes to Demopolis
		The depression of 1913-14 led to the bankruptcy reorganization in 1916 and the name was changed to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company.
		Demopolis was also the crossroads of the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway and the Alabama Great Southern.
		The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, better known as the Frisco, was incorporated on September 7, 1876.
	www.demopolis.ws (1352 words)

	Miner (1972) The St. Louis-San Francisco transcontinental railroad: The thirty-fifth parallel project, 1853-1890
		St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company; Railroads; History; United States
		The St. Louis-San Francisco transcontinental railroad: The thirty-fifth parallel project, 1853-1890
		Miner (1972) The St. Louis-San Francisco transcontinental railroad: The thirty-fifth parallel project, 1853-1890
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101706419&showStat=Ratings (98 words)

	Tulsa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		White settlement began after the arrival in 1882 of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.
		(born 1931), U.S. football player, born in San Francisco; college football at University of San Francisco and University of Tulsa; with San Francisco 49ers 1953–64, as offensive tackle; at 6 ft, 9 in., he was tallest player of his time; elected to Professional Football Hall of Fame 1990.
		It originated in 1836 as a settlement of Creek Indians who named it for their former town in Alabama.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073732?tocId=9073732 (621 words)

	WHMC-Rolla -- R362 -- Guide
		There is a list of stockholders, directors and officers as of June 15, 1927, revised bylaws, agreement among receivers of St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Ry., Fort Worth and Rio Grande Ry., B NandS Ry.
		to St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern RR (1902).
		Gibbons was most likely a contractor on the St. Louis and Western RR construction between Lebanon and Bolivar, possibly a subcontractor to Keystone Building.
	web.umr.edu /~whmcinfo/shelf15/r362/guide.html (15154 words)

	OSCN Found Document:JESTER v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY
		Streeter Speakman, Sapulpa, Franklin, Harmon and Satterfield, Oklahoma City, E.D. Grinnell, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., for defendant in error, St. Louis-San Francisco Ry.
		To the same effect see St. Louis, I.M. and S.R. Co. v.
		In Merritt, supra, it was held that after the engineer observed the approaching vehicle, if it were seen before reaching the crossing, this would not require the train to be stopped.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=36966 (1627 words)

	OCSTEAM.com - Home of the Ohio Central Steam Department
		Originally built for the Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad as number 40, she was renumbered 76 when leased to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, commonly known as the FRISCO.
		In 1947, this 68-ton 2-8-0 was sold to the Mississippian Railway and was one of two ex-Frisco locomotives on this longest (24-miles) all-steam road in the entire south.
		She was purchased from the Gettysburg Railroad who last had the engine under steam in the early 1990's.
	www.ocsteam.com /76 (376 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO AND TEXAS RAILWAY
		The St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway Company was chartered on March 9, 1900, in the interest of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company (Frisco), to build between Denison, Texas, and the Red River.
		of St. Louis; and J. Atterbury of Letchfield, Illinois.
		Two other Frisco properties-the Blackwell, Enid and Texas Railway, operating between the Red River and Vernon, and the Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad, which had built between Red River and Quanah-were acquired on June 30, 1904, and July 25, 1904, respectively.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/eqs31.html (624 words)

	Wilson County, Part 2
		Fredonia, the county seat of Wilson County, is located in Center Township, near Fall River, and upon the line of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway.
		-- The traveler rolling smoothly along the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway between New Albany and Fredonia is struck by the sudden appearance of a great hillock, or mound, rising to the west of the track.
		Its present officers are: R. Sholes, N. Gould, V. Cox, secretary; Louis Eppstein, treasurer.
	www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/wilson/wilson-co-p2.html (3890 words)

	FRISCO.org - Frisco.org
		The company was reorganized as the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway Company on August 24, 1916.
		The Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company (FRISCO) was organized in 1876.
		The Frisco merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad on November 21, 1980.
	www.frisco.org (199 words)

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	Karen's Books - New Arrivals
		From the Southern Pacific line to the Green Mountain Railway of Vermont, from the Louisiana and Delta line of the South to the Wisconsin Central of the Midwest, here are trains from all over America.
		Analyzing the origins, growth, and dismantling of the Iowa Central Railway, which crossed the state from Ackley to Zearing and Mason City to Marshalltown, the author examines how this unremarkable railway was an example of the life cycle of the American railroad industry.
		The story of a railfan trip in 1945 on the San Juan which was a very special train in that it carried a parlor car equipped with comfortable upholstered chairs.
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