Frisco Ft. Smith/Van Buren Railroaders

Louis A. Marre Photo, Mike Condren Collection

Frisco roundhouse crew Ft. Smith: 1. laborer, 2.Paul Lasley, hostler, 3. Charley Snydow, car foreman, 4. Lee Hart, machinest, 5. C. J. Sebourn, electrician, 6. Johnnie Maldon, machinest, 7. Mac Sexton, electrician, 8. Guler Worden, roundhouse foreman 9. John Sayler, machinest, 10. Lonnie Hope, Clerk, 11. W. C. Wilbourn, electrician, 12. Cleo Moss (Front) engineer, 12. Harry Hall (back) Machinest, 13. Blacksmith, 14. Warren Wilson, machinest. Can you identify any of the other men in this photo?

Mike Condren Photo

I first met Charles "Granny" Draper when he was one of the two regular engineers on the Frisco "Meteorite". I rode with him many times from Van Buren to Fayetteville in the cab. When the crew assignment for that train changed to Springfield, MO with the extnesion of the run to there for the connection with the Meteor, Granny took a job on the switch engine in Ft. Smith. I regularly rode with him on Saturday mornings when I was home from college, sitting on the heater behind the engineer's seat in the cab of a Baldwin VO1000.

Frisco Employees in 1960s

Contributed by John Dill

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