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Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 0-6-0 #3748 is seen switching the passenger train in 1940. |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF 0-6-0 #3704 is seen switching a stock car in South Yard during 1944. |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 0-6-0 #3738 Ft. Smith, 4/2/48 |
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Charles Winters Photo, Mike Condren Collection |
Frisco 0-6-0 #3744 Ft. Smith, 10/3/48 |
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Louis A. Marre Collection |
SLSF SW7 #304 is seen parked in front of the yard office in Ft. Smith, 8/57. It shows the Roman lettering as applied originally at the EMD factory. Also note the receptrical and hangers for classification lamps as these units were used as road units on some short branch lines. |
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| GE 44-ton #7 was in Ft. Smith for servicing and painting before returning to Paris, TX and the joint switching assignment. Frisco and Santa Fe alternated years switching Paris, with the Santa Fe using a gas-electric. |
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Frisco 7am switch job returning from the Frisco
Industrical Park in south Ft. Smith after turning the passenger train. |
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Baldwin VO1000 #213 is seen here switching the passenger train in fresh paint for the opening of the new Borge Warner plant in the Frisco industrial park on the south side of town. |
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Late in their days, NW2s made an appearance at Ft. Smith as seen in this view of two units in front of the yard office in Ft. Smith, 7/76. |
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