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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by 440cuin Also the Frisco <SL&SF> didn't even go to San Fransisco, in fact it went east and soutwest of Saint Louis! Dumb names, great railroads. [/quote] Frisco actually had land grants to build west. However during a time they were under control of Santa Fe, Santa Fe wound up with Frisco's land grants and used them to build track for Santa Fe and not Frisco. Frisco during the early 1900s had control of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. But the early 1900s were a time of economic turmoil for many railroads due to depressions and bankruptcies. Frisco had entry into Chicago by way of C & E I, but after a bankruptcy in 1912 lost control of C & E I and entry into Chicago. Frisco also raced to be the only railroad allowed to pass through Indian Territory in Oklahoma but was edged out by M K T. And as many know Frisco became part of BN in 1980 whereby we lost another good railroad. The year 1980 was the year the Rock was lost also, two once proud railroads gone forever. [V] [:(] [:(!]
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